{"id":1391,"date":"2018-02-21T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:10:25","slug":"religious-tests-and-misunderstandings-a-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/02\/religious-tests-and-misunderstandings-a-cause-for-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Tests and Misunderstandings: A Cause for Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his Times of Israel blog post<\/a>, Doug Aronin discusses an exchange between Senator Bernie Sanders and\u00a0Russell Vought as the confirmation hearing for the Mr. Vought as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget and argues that Senator Sanders applied an improper religious test for Mr. Vought’s nomination and speaks of the disconnect between the Senator Sanders and Mr. Vought regarding Christian theology regarding non-Christians.<\/p>\n

What made watching that exchange particularly frustrating was the realization that while Sanders and Vought appeared to be speaking\u00a0the same language, in fact they really weren\u2019t. \u00a0It was clear from Sanders questioning that what had sparked his anger was Vought\u2019s use of the word \u201ccondemned.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0When Vought used that word in his Resurgence post, he used it \u2014 as a Christian speaking to other Christians about a dispute involving a Christian school\u2019s statement of faith\u00a0\u2014\u00a0in its Christian theological\u00a0sense of being\u00a0denied salvation.\u00a0 When Sanders\u00a0read that word, however, he clearly\u00a0understood it in its colloquial\u00a0sense\u00a0as a moral denunciation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In his Times of Israel blog post, Doug Aronin discusses an exchange between Senator Bernie Sanders and\u00a0Russell Vought as the confirmation hearing for the Mr. Vought as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget and argues that Senator Sanders applied an improper religious test for Mr. Vought’s nomination and speaks of the disconnect Continue Reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,78,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[103],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-modern-judaism","category-politics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t