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CousinIT

(12,627 posts)
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 01:46 PM Jan 2022

Perfect illustration of the difference between Democrats and Republicans

And it says a LOT about conservative "Christians" (some of whom I'm related to so I know this nails them)

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Perfect illustration of the difference between Democrats and Republicans (Original Post) CousinIT Jan 2022 OP
K & R - nt Ohio Joe Jan 2022 #1
Kick dalton99a Jan 2022 #2
Exactly. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2022 #3
Not to mention that TFG broke EVERY commandment,,, lastlib Jan 2022 #4
That was his to-do list lame54 Jan 2022 #21
Shoot, you mean there's a to-do list he finished? soldierant Jan 2022 #24
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2022 #5
For some "conservative Christians" moondust Jan 2022 #6
Yes, but they are like marble mausoleums ... dawg Jan 2022 #20
Always a great exhibit of a terrible person. Grokenstein Jan 2022 #22
Do not pray in public like the hypocrites do - or something like that. Probatim Jan 2022 #29
it's about three things gopiscrap Jan 2022 #7
Yepper spot on................ turbinetree Jan 2022 #8
Nailed it. highplainsdem Jan 2022 #9
About 99% of Republican politicians have zero integrity. Trust_Reality Jan 2022 #10
Sadly true. Republicans have pissed all over Christ's example Achilleaze Jan 2022 #11
"Conservative Christian" equals Racist Fascist. dchill Jan 2022 #12
Political Christians rather than Christians of faith. keithbvadu2 Jan 2022 #13
They misspelled the "anti-" part relayerbob Jan 2022 #14
Or, the way I always say it ... Jeebo Jan 2022 #15
K&R Solomon Jan 2022 #16
It's simply really, many conservatives are liars who claim to believe in Jesus cstanleytech Jan 2022 #17
I put no stock in religion. paleotn Jan 2022 #18
So true allegorical oracle Jan 2022 #32
Goes to show one that there isn't such a thing as a 'conservative' Christian... SWBTATTReg Jan 2022 #19
Kick. N/T Upthevibe Jan 2022 #23
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you! Xipe Totec Jan 2022 #25
So-called Christian Conservatives are single issue voters Mr. Ected Jan 2022 #26
Anti-abortion groups didn't get rolling until someone pointed out that it was mostly white women OMGWTF Jan 2022 #28
They elected the anti-Christ. OMGWTF Jan 2022 #27
Expained by the fact MAGA loves cruelty. The more the better. All those "others" are kairos12 Jan 2022 #30
And Jimmy and Rosslyn have been married for 75 years TexasBushwhacker Jan 2022 #31
K&R spanone Jan 2022 #33
The more someone proclaims how Christian they are SCantiGOP Jan 2022 #34

lastlib

(28,407 posts)
4. Not to mention that TFG broke EVERY commandment,,,
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 02:35 PM
Jan 2022

and epitomized EVERY one of the deadly sins---and yet........

moondust

(21,310 posts)
6. For some "conservative Christians"
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 03:06 PM
Jan 2022

making a big public show of their religion amounts to nothing more than using religion as a cover to shield themselves from culpability for their despicable behavior. Show up in church on Sunday and they'll be recognized in public as "good Christians"--and the crimes they committed all week often in private will be swept under the rug and forgotten.

Exhibit A:

dawg

(10,777 posts)
20. Yes, but they are like marble mausoleums ...
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:08 PM
Jan 2022

shiny and white on the outside, but full of rotting filth and decay on the inside.

Grokenstein

(6,375 posts)
22. Always a great exhibit of a terrible person.
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:11 PM
Jan 2022

The facial expression and the hands tell the truth: he'd rather be holding a steaming dog turd.

gopiscrap

(24,754 posts)
7. it's about three things
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 03:06 PM
Jan 2022

money or abortion you either conservations Christians who don't give a shit about anything but abortion, or rich assholes who don't want to part with even a dime of their luchre specially when it is for the common good, or just flat out racist ignorant fucks who are seeking to step on some one

Trust_Reality

(2,292 posts)
10. About 99% of Republican politicians have zero integrity.
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 03:25 PM
Jan 2022

Proposed bumper sticker: Republicans like money, not people.

Jeebo

(2,560 posts)
15. Or, the way I always say it ...
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 03:46 PM
Jan 2022

DEMOCRATS think poor people have too little and rich people have too much.

REPUBLICANS think poor people have too much and rich people have too little.

-- Ron

cstanleytech

(28,520 posts)
17. It's simply really, many conservatives are liars who claim to believe in Jesus
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:02 PM
Jan 2022

and his teachings in public but in private they do not and never have.

paleotn

(22,449 posts)
18. I put no stock in religion.
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:06 PM
Jan 2022
By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness.


A quote from a movie that played fast and loose with history to put it mildly, but love the quote and it's very apropos. Carter is into goodness. Conservative Christians are the very thing their savior loathed. Life is full of of such ironies.

allegorical oracle

(6,513 posts)
32. So true
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 09:03 AM
Jan 2022

Where I live, the Trumpsters go to church at least twice a week. Many of them own small businesses -- from trimming trees to well drilling to car repair to installing air conditioning. They frequently rip off customers . They refuse to stand behind their services or products and charge far higher prices than are found in large cities. Their fall-back position is that they're good Christians. (They mention it in their ads.) Truth is, their false piety simply serves as camouflage, covering up the grift they know they're committing.

SWBTATTReg

(26,322 posts)
19. Goes to show one that there isn't such a thing as a 'conservative' Christian...
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:07 PM
Jan 2022

there are conservatives, and then there are Christians.

Somehow in the past one of them lumped the two words together, and voila, they are magically 'conservative Christians'! And what they have done is actually trashed the original meanings of these formerly independent words to make themselves sound better, be better than the rest of us somehow because they have magically attached a self-made title to themselves in describing themselves.

Isn't this a sin to be prideful, according to the bible?

These people have ruined what it truly means to be Christian, and pretty well don't like any changes at all, in their lives or anything surrounding them, thus they resist the Sciences of all types, and embrace being called 'conservatives' as a result, when in fact, they should be called anti-science and hypocrites.

The simple truth is that they resist change of any type, for it means that Mankind is learning more and more about the medical sciences, the Universe, and other things surrounding us for the good of all of us.

We have now advanced medications that we never would have dreamed possible even 10 years ago, amazing cancer treatments, gene therapy, inserting bone marrow to fix an array of medical issues, operating on tumors in the brain (and other locations in the body), materials sciences (making new substances an atom at a time), feeding the entire world as a result of our agricultural advances (seeds, equipment to harvest crops, etc.), the list could go on endlessly.

Ironically, some of these very same anti-science people, hypocrites as they are, grow genetically altered crops or raise hybrid pigs (which they pump full of antibiotics), etc. to boost their yields, and use products that were developed using advanced techniques not even visually years ago, and yet complain or mouth off about science and the computer age nonstop. Even the Amish weren't above using someone else's car to hitch a ride to a job (my dad did this, even though I disagreed, he took them from and to the job twice daily).

Therefore, when you run into such a person, who doubts the benefits of our modern age as I described above, simply smile and go your way. If anything, you are far better equipped to handle the coming Future than they are, and if they're mouthing off at you, I'd say either they are jealous or envious (yet more sins of the bible, eh?). Don't waste your time or energy on them, life is too busy.

Xipe Totec

(44,567 posts)
25. Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:34 PM
Jan 2022

quoting Paul Atreides from Dune.

Conservative Christians have become the Bene Gesserit.

Mr. Ected

(9,714 posts)
26. So-called Christian Conservatives are single issue voters
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:51 PM
Jan 2022

It all boils down to pro-choice. If a politician claims to be pro-choice, the CC will vote against them 100% of the time. That's why it doesn't matter if Jimmy Carter was given his sainthood, since he aligns himself with pro-choice he is necessarily evil incarnate in their eyes.

OMGWTF

(5,173 posts)
28. Anti-abortion groups didn't get rolling until someone pointed out that it was mostly white women
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 06:10 PM
Jan 2022

getting them. They did the math. It's basically a racist thing and they joined forces with the Talibangelicals to build their army and here we are -- rolling back civil rights one red state at a time.

OMGWTF

(5,173 posts)
27. They elected the anti-Christ.
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 06:07 PM
Jan 2022

Something something about you will know the traitorous dumbasses by the mark on their forehead (MAGA caps).

kairos12

(13,659 posts)
30. Expained by the fact MAGA loves cruelty. The more the better. All those "others" are
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 09:54 PM
Jan 2022

the devil anyway.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,245 posts)
31. And Jimmy and Rosslyn have been married for 75 years
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 10:20 PM
Jan 2022

and known each other since they were children.

SCantiGOP

(14,737 posts)
34. The more someone proclaims how Christian they are
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 11:48 AM
Jan 2022

The less likely they are to follow the moral teachings of the radical Palestinian socialist.

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