The below article really resonated with my wife and me. We are both fierce Jindal fans since initially reading about him in the
Weekly Standard and having a lot of family in Louisiana... Northern Louisiana at that. As a Christian of the apostolic succession variety I can certainly understand what he said, even after reading the article
in context. Louisiana is, as the article mentions, a state divided - with Protestants in the Northern half and Catholics in the Southern half. Try looking for a non-Protestant church in the North and you'll be looking a while. Asking people at gas stations will get you a stare. You can imagine what it was like when our Northern Lousiana family came to a three hour baptismal divine liturgy.
Baton Rouge, Aug 23, 2007 / 10:35 am (CNA).- A political scuffle has ensued between rival candidates who are campaigning to become the next governor of Louisiana. The brouhaha began when Bobby Jindal’s challengers ran a television ad that accuses him of calling Protestants "scandalous, depraved, selfish and heretical.”
The 30-second ad features a woman on-screen saying Jindal doesn't respect other people's religion and directs viewers to a website with links to several articles Jindal authored in the 1990s on Catholicism. The ad is running in heavily Protestant central and north Louisiana.
The articles referred to include a piece published in the New Oxford Review in 1996. In it, Jindal writes about the Catholic religion as the true Christian faith and refers to a "scandalous series of divisions and new denominations" of religions since the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
"Despite my best efforts, I could find no justification in the Bible or the Early Church for any individual to establish his own church apart from the one established by Christ," Jindal wrote.
He also wrote about how Christians should strive for unity and says the Catholic Church must incorporate the "spirit-led movements" of other Christian faiths.
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