I did not know this:
Raised Episcopalian, McCain now attends a Baptist megachurch in Phoenix. But he has not been baptized and rarely talks of his faith in anything but the broadest terms or as it relates to how it enabled him to survive 5½ years in captivity as a POW.
I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. Like how it was Mao’s Little Red Book and the films of Jane Fonda that helped John stay strong through 5½ years of special treatment in Vietnam. Or how he can’t be baptized anymore, because after partaking in Ho Chi Mihn’s secret Black Mass of Homo-Socialism 40 years ago, holy water causes John’s flesh to burst into flames. Or that it was a condition of one of his countless divorces. Or it goes against the Koran. There are any number of possible explanations for this behavior, and it would be the height of irresponsibility to go around wildly speculating about this.
… UPDATE: after consulting with esteemed political commentator Peggy Noonan, it turns out that it would be irresponsible not to. Please continue.
April 9, 2008 at 3:20 pm
The real reason is that, every time he dips a toe into the baptismal pool, his incontinence causes him to wet himself.
April 9, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Sources tell me that Panama Jack McCain’s trigger (implanted by his NVA captors) is the Foundations’ song “Build Me Up Buttercup”.
April 9, 2008 at 4:25 pm
If he was “raised Episcopalian,” he was baptized. If he wanted to join most (but not all) Baptist churches, he would have to be re-baptized as an adult, because most Baptist churches don’t acknowledge infant baptism. But Baptists don’t believe that you have to be baptized in order to be saved, so there’s no reason that someone baptized as an infant in the Episcopal church can’t pray in a Baptist church. And no hypocrisy, either.
April 9, 2008 at 5:53 pm
“Build Me Up, Buttercup!” ? ?
This is a codepentdant wife-beater song. Always blaming her.
It’s your fault for my sadness!!!
Episcopalian? Why are you not kissing the Queen’s ring?
Anyway, it’s getting late. So……
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April 9, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I still think Marisleysis was pretty hot.
April 10, 2008 at 4:29 am
Next question; would knowing that his illegitimate black child is not baptized either affect your likelihood of voting for McCain?
April 10, 2008 at 5:50 am
The real reason is that “total immersion” baptism brings on flashbacks of waterboarding in ‘Nam.
I’m sure that after he kills everyone nearby in a red haze of incoherent fury, the wingnut bloggers would tell us all how that shows his absolutely perfect qualifications to be CinC. And how waterboarding is really a-okay.
April 10, 2008 at 7:55 am
The best thing about being raised Episcopalian is that we never took it all that seriously. As a British wag once said, he supports the Church of England as a bulwark against religion. Segueing into atheism was easy and natural.
His switching to Baptism is just another reason not to vote for McCain.
April 10, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Personally, I’ve always thought the Baptists had the right idea — they just need to learn how to hold the baptizees under water about ten or fifteen minutes longer.
*glug!*
April 10, 2008 at 7:29 pm
This is about the rift in the American Episcopalian church over female priests. He doesn’t want any of that, but he’ll hang out with Hagee and Rod Parsley, porn-star/preacher.
April 11, 2008 at 11:37 am
John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
April 14, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Anyone Talking BS about McCain and his captivity needs to strap a 12 volt battery to their nuts and shoot off a few charges, then you might grab a glimpse of what he went through.
July 1, 2008 at 10:45 pm
[...] have raised about McCain’s dubious record in Vietnam, his San Francisco values, his atheism and hatred of traditional Christianity, his crazy temper, such grand unified theories of VC mind [...]
July 22, 2008 at 10:27 am
[...] church he goes to, and whether he is a secret druid? (Probably out of the question, as McCain doesn’t bother with church.) Or doctoring audio of his wife so it sounds like she’s whipping a crowd of radical retirees [...]
July 24, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Geddy, Alex and I know that John McCain is objectively old.
August 17, 2008 at 11:40 pm
It’s a big old lie to say he hasn’t been baptised.
He was–seventy one years ago. In an Episcopal ceremony.
He doesn’t think he has to do it again. I agree with him.
Too bad if people don’t like that. They’re idiots if they do.