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Q&A | Sen. Jim DeMint wants to stop the nation's 'slide into socialism' | Marvin Olasky

Sen. Jim DeMint (Photo by James Allen Walker for WORLD)

Television news shows emphasize the rhetoric of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.): Regarding the health insurance debate, "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will become his Waterloo." DeMint in our interview spoke more of his religious beliefs and how he applies them politically.

Q: You graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1973. Were you involved in any Christian pursuits in college? Unfortunately not. For the record, I was a little angel.

Q: Duly noted. But later on . . . I was 30 and had never been happier, but there was just something terribly empty about my life. I knew there was a God, but I saw God as the one who took the fun out of life. My plan was to do business with Him when I got older and was tired of having fun. But a business friend of mine said, "You ought to come by this Christian businessmen's committee breakfast." My wife thought I'd gone crazy when I left at 6:30 a.m. to go. They were arguing about things that were in the Bible, and I loved it. That was a period in my life where I was on a mountaintop because I was discovering that God loved me and had a plan for my life—things that were completely new to me.