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Jesus Was a Republican
What does it mean to be a good Christian? If you go to church, does that do it? If you give to charity, does that do it? If you bring your friends to a prayer group and get them involved in the church, does that do it? What if you see a homeless man on the street and you buy him a meal or even get him a job? Does that make you a good Christian? The answer is no. Kind acts are important but at the core of what makes someone a good Christian is not an act or two. It's all about the values. A good Christian will dedicate him or herself to following a strict adherence to the values set forth by Jesus Christ. This book explores precisely that question: What did Jesus believe when it came to Taxes, Abortion, Homosexuality, the Death Penalty and Guns and this book will conclusively demonstrate using Holy Scripture that Jesus, were he alive today, would most certainly be a Republican. Moreover, he would denounce the Democratic Party and would never view them as good Christians.
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@Starlight #198881
If the story of the New Testament was written in a modern setting, or in other words, if they had guns in the first century AD, Christians would probably be walking around with little symbols of guns around their necks instead of crosses.
I’m not entirely sure what the moral of that point should be, but it’s kind of an amusing thought at least, or so I think, lol
Jesus was the one who set the kind acts as a standard for a typical Christian to behave; the rest comes from the Old Testament.
Taxes, Abortion, Homosexuality, the Death Penalty and Guns
Jesus said to pay your taxes. He said nothing about abortion, but the Bible does permit it, at least under some circumstances. He said nothing about homosexuality; the only part of the bible which *maybe* says “gay bad” is that oft-quoted line in Leviticus which is a questionable translation. The “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” part strongly suggests that he was against the death penalty, at least sometimes. Personal weapons (what I assume “guns” is a stand-in for), depends on whether his references to swords were meant to be literal or metaphorical.
Doesn’t seem very Republican-like to me.
Kind acts are important but at the core of what makes someone a good Christian is not an act or two. It's all about the values. A good Christian will dedicate him or herself to following a strict adherence to the values set forth by Jesus Christ.
This is really a very old debate, but it seems to me he’s saying the values a “good Christian” holds are more important than the things he does? Hmm, shouldn’t those go hand in hand though? Why is one more important the the other? Or in other words, if you have “good Christian values” you’re going to be doing “good Christian acts” based on those values, right?
@Malingspann #198906 if anyone has what they regard as “good Christian values” then their acts are “good Christian acts” by definition.
In other words, it matters less what one does than who’s doing it. In other other words, like IOKIYAR, except IOKIYAGC - “It’s OK If You’re A Good Christian”.
@TheKingOfRhye #198897
Unfortunately, modern American Christians have largely separated “good Christian values" from "good Christian acts”. As long as you say the right things in church, what you do the rest of the time is automatically good.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmpubadm/686/2041106.htm
I know having been in the Cabinet that when a body of opinion develops no Government can disregard it. Let me give you a non-political example. When Hamilton killed those children in Dunblane, Michael Howard, the Conservative Home Secretary, banned handguns within six months. He may have never thought of it before but public opinion was so strong he had to do it. That is how the democratic process works. It does not trickle down, it bubbles up. That is in a nutshell what I feel about it. I do not know if it answers your question but it is what I feel
-Tony Benn MP (Labour, Chesterfield)
A Christian Socialist .
Romans 13:1-7 presses you on your opinions, Preston. A certain Labour MP for Hull East didn’t feel pressed when he voted to ban guns in Britain.
My letter in lobbying my MP on the issue that was the Dunblane Massacre wasn’t the only one Prescott welcomed.
Kind cats are important but at the core of what dedicates someone a good Crankian is not a cat or two. It's about all the values. A good Crankian will make him or herself follow
Moreover, he would denounce the Democratic Party and would never view them as good Christians.
Good. The world needs far fewer ‘good Christians.’ ‘Good Christians’ murder people; people of other faiths, or LGBTQ people, or people of differing skin tone. ‘Good Christians’ conquer nations and slaughter populations because their god told them to, as if that justifies their barbarism. ‘Good Christians’ loot and steal and starve and oppress, they read the rules laid down in their holy book, shrug, and decide that the rules are nice-sounding, but don't really apply to them . After all, they're already ‘good Christians.’ Their eternity is already decided, so they can continue being the absolute biggest bastards they can manage.
To hell with all the ‘good Christians.’ Give me more ‘good people.’
“This book explores precisely that question: What did Jesus believe when it came to Taxes,”
“Abortion,”
“Homosexuality,”
“the Death Penalty”
“and Guns”
He’s also definitely be in favor of feeding the poor, welcoming immigrants, taxing the living shit out of the rich for the poor’s benefit, and for all of Davey Stewart’s talk of wicked women dressed as whoors, Jesus hung out with prostitutes, who one presumes were dressed as harlots.
Inventing "Jesus" straw men for appeal to authority fallacies and to attempt to justify the unacceptable. The actual Jesus would throw out scammers of the temple, when Republicans appear to be the party of organized crime and scams. He attempted to promote values like mercy, forgiveness and tolerance, when the Republican party appears to promote the inverse, bigotry, intolerance, inequality and the oppression of minorities. Liar, heretic.
@kuyohashi #198961
because their god told them to, as if that justifies their barbarism
Nice post, just a minor obvious statement: claiming that their god told them to, considering that there is no evidence that their god exists or existed, or that the texts they quote mine from don't have a fully human origin.
@Croquemitaine #199075
Fair point, I just thought using the phrase ‘their god,’ when no god has been proven to exist, was easier than typing out ‘the psychological manifestations of their innate bigotries, superstitions, ignorance and untreated mental disorders, which they have fashioned into a rough human shape from the clay of their damaged psyches, stuffed into an old bathrobe, and slapped a Santa beard onto’ three or four times just to fill my daily snark quota.
@kuyohashi #199094
Another awesome post :)
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