God save us from a "Christian" Congress

[lees1975]

https://baptistnews.com/article/god-save-us-from-a-christian-congress/

I put quotes around the term "Christian" in my title, because, as the editorial states, of the over 300 members of Congress who claim affiliation with a Christian church, only about 50 of them are actually engaged in a church in any meaningful faith practice.

"A Congress that has enshrined lying as a political virtue doesn’t make the cut as Christian. While some members of Congress have made the amazing discovery that “lying sells” and “lying works,” others simply have ignored the reality of the lies that now cover the place like a heavy fog.

Rep. George Santos of New York, elected to Congress with a resume filled with lies, has spent his first days in Congress sitting alone. The rest of the Congress has ignored him, but they haven’t suggested he face a hearing with the Ethics Committee. Santos learned if you tell enough lies, enough big lies, they become so huge as to be so absurd that they must be ignored. His lies were too big to face expulsion.

In an odd way, this is what now passes as Christianity. No matter what egregious act a member of Congress does, there’s an outburst of defense for him or her: “We are all humans. Nobody is perfect. It’s not like he killed anyone.” How odd that conservatives now use arguments that have become cliché even among liberals. It is as if a person can sin, everyone can know it, and then all the good Christians will forgive that sin with no accountability. Somewhere Dietrich Bonhoeffer is saying, “Cheap grace.”

[keithbvadu2]

1. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

When a theocracy takes over America, which church (Christian of course) will be in charge?
Will the others accept their rule?
Many Catholics/Protestants consider the other to be false Christians.
Would they accept Mormons as the rulers?
Westboro Baptist Church?
The new rulers will be political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

We have plenty of people who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America.

The Christian version of Sharia Law.

[phoenix75]

3. "We have plenty of people who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America"

Exactly! Thank you. Your statement hits the nail on the head. But FWIW, those folks either don't know or don't care that the United States was not founded as a Christian nation. The words God, Jesus, Christianity or the Bible are not found in the Constitution.
And a Google search revealed that a treaty unanimously ratified by the Senate in 1797 (Treaty of Tripoli) states that "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
Although I am not religious myself, I do believe everyone should be free to believe whatever they want for their own personal life, but they don't have the right to impose their beliefs on others.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Impose

[The Magistrate]

2. Cheap Grace, Sir, Is The Fundamentalist Stock In Trade

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found hard and not tried."

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Interesting how many of these so-called Christians promulgate hatred of the the other daily.

Reminds me in a way of those who have never served but who advocate others going to war at the drop of a checkbook.