Today's Republicans do in fact have Christian values

[ancianita]

67. Funny,

I thought you just posted that it all was the Dark Ages. A misnomer of that period, anyway, since most of the first scientists of that period were clergy. At the Lateran Council of 1215, Christianity transformed itself into the Catholic Church.
The historical sins of leaders does not define Christianity, any more than a scattered group of scared disciples (when Jesus was arrested and killed) define the church that Jesus later transformed them into growing, by helping them understand all the scripture in a way that neither they nor the Pharisees had really understood. He said he did not come for the righteous but for the broken. Everything else he did and taught followed from that. What later christians do that's evil is the misuse of their free will.

Funny how the rest of the world is saying that our democracy is no model anymore, based on how badly people abuse the law and irresponsibly use their freedoms in it. Yet none of us is going to say that's a fair assessment of the state of democracy, are we. And so it is with Christianity. Things that last a few hundred years could be as easily discarded as things that have lasted thousands, right?