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The Republican Christian – a Contradiction in Terms?
By NanceGreggs, on June 12th, 2012


If you know anything about Christianity (which I do) and you know anything about the current GOP’s political positions (which I unfortunately do), you can’t help but notice the glaring disconnect between the two.

The Republican party, as currently constituted, continuously berates the Democrats for wanting to strengthen social safety nets whereby “the least among us” are cared for – the sick, the dying, the down-and-out, the imprisoned – which is exactly what Christ taught his followers to do. And yet the Republicans decry these very things as evil, while holding themselves out as the real Christians in our society.

Of course, the GOP powers-that-be frame their rhetoric so as to validate non-Christian behavior, by suggesting that when Jesus reminded his flock that they were indeed their brother’s keeper, he actually meant it as merely a serving suggestion, not as a global admonition to do the right thing for its own sake.

The Republicans never fail to trot out the concept of Welfare Queens, who (in some alternate universe created out of whole cloth) are living large on their welfare checks and food stamps. What they never address is the millions living in poverty who rely on such safety nets to feed, house and clothe themselves and their families. The GOP finds it more expedient to encourage the belief that the welfare rolls are full of lazy, undeserving parasites – and the so-called Christians among their ranks are more than happy to accept this notion without question, followed by a sigh of relief that their preferred politicians have proffered a valid excuse for not doing what The Nazarene specifically told them to do.


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