You christians that support the republican party _ questions for you

[Stargazer99]

Why do you support a party namely Regan that said GREED is GOOD
When the Bible says the LOVE of money is evil?
Justify that to me
and don't give me the Calvinist view because if your not rich you say God doesn't love you
Well God must love the Mafia because they certainly are not in financial pain.

[RKP5637]

1. Many christians today worship money and hate the poor. Money, has become their god. n/t

[kimbutgar]

2. Drop Jesus and have them just admit their god is money.

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, that pretty much sums it up! n/t

[Initech]

10. Yup - their god is the almighty dollar.

[vlyons]

4. It's a waste of time trying to get

prosperity Christians to admit to their greed and hypocracy. You can rant at them 24x7, and all you will accomplish is them getting more and more defensive. Their ego, their sense of Self-hood, is all wrapped up and entrenched in their belief system. They are not emotionally or spiritually mature enough to be open-minded to other possible ways of thinking and being. Except for a very very few, getting them to think rationally is pretty much a lost cause. They are "right" arguers. They must always be "right," and make everyone with a different view point "wrong."

So save your breath. Rather than waste my time with them, I prefer to think about and contemplate my own spiritual progress.
We cannot change other people; we can only change ourselves. IMHO

[FiveGoodMen]

7. That might be good for your own peace of mind, but...

If we can't change the voting patterns of these 'christians' soon, then we are doomed to live under fascist rule for generations.

[vlyons]

8. Well if you have a way to get through to them

don't keep is a secret. I think that it's better and easier to get the non-voters to register and motivated to vote.

[Hortensis]

5. Well, we all know actual religious precepts of decency

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and morality -- as they pertain to outsiders -- have been thrown under the bus in this era. Cons tend to be relatively malleable by leaders, and they have been taken over by some increasingly extremely bad ones over the past 35 years.

But they don't have to be like this. They can be and often are wonderful to people they haven't been trained to see as problems and enemies, as in those they see as their own.

And American cons' concern over the supposed destructive effects of government programs makes a whole lot more sense when one realizes that a gut belief in an important natural order--existing even without religion--is much stronger in them. That government programs that interfere with, instead of working with it, may cause worse problems than without. A fairly sensible characteristic if not overdone. Many once supported New Deal programs, and by far most don't want their SS meddled with. Unfortunately, this resistance, and refusal to believe that libs agree to a point, have been developed to the max by malignant anti-government manipulators.

[Orsino]

6. Prosperity doctrine is older than money.

Concentration of wealth has always been called a signifier of divine favor by those it's concentrated among...for as long as wealth has been concentrated.

[pansypoo53219]

9. the Pharisee party.

[Xolodno]

11. Fallacy in your statement.

You are assuming they are "Christian". These whack jobs assume they are wealthy because Gold loves them. And they are forgiven for all the people they have cheated, swindled and oppressed.

They will show up once a year and help out at a soup kitchen to make themselves feel "christian", and no sooner they leave and happen to pass a beggar will yell at them "get a job you addict!"

They always ignore the part where Christ says he knew them not.

[oasis]

12. And don't forget the GOP obsession with guns, guns, and more guns. nt

[ck4829]

13. I've given up on them, there's nothing Christian about them.

Worship wealth, turn away the refugee, say the sick deserve to be sick, etc.

Their god is an evil little god. Period.

[Flaleftist]

14. They seem to care about the Supreme Court.

They want Roe vs. Wade and gay marriage overturned and don't give a shit about anything else. I heard a clip on NPR this morning. It was Falwell speaking at Liberty University. He basically defended Trump's past and character by saying nobody is perfect. It reminded me of how cult members think, then I remembered who his audience was.