christianity -- why republicans love it so much

[maggrwaggr]

All Republicans are guilty. Usually of greed, violent thoughts, hatred, and illegal use of the hands.

They know they're guilty. They know they will always be guilty.

Christianity tells them they can be cleansed of thier guilt.

Ahhhhhhh ....... it's like taking a nice hot shower.

If you're a good person, well Christianity tells you that your goodness is "like dirty rags" to God. Christianity is a burden.

Who's most likely to grasp Christianity tightly to their chests and shout "halleluiah!!"??

[youngred]

1. yeah, that's the only message of christianity

or any religion :eyes:

[PVnRT]

16. Let them wallow in their misconceptions

I've found it's not worth the trouble to convince them otherwise.

[ugarte]

2. Speaking as a far-left liberal Christian

I must disagree that Republicans love Christianity more than Democrats. Jesus is a great role model for anyone.

[DenverDem]

3. Rethugs and fundamentalists are not Christians.

The true message of Christ is that our souls are in reality electrical spirit monads made up of the actual body of Prime Creator. This is the spark that causes your heart to beat.

Christ came to let us know that by understanding that God is in us, actually IS US, we "accept (our) Christ (self)" and through dealing with other spirit monads in our experience with agape love, we are able to raise the frequency of our soul and reach atonement with Prime Creator's frequency, thus reaching heaven, which is the re-enfoldment into the body of Prime Creator. Because of our material misinformation, this now takes many incarnations to wise up to. Some spirits may never wise up, there's your fundies. Some know better, but use the knowledge megalomaniacly to gain material power and wealth in this three dimensional reality. There's your neo-cons.

This liberation theology didn't work for the Empire of Rome, so the whole thing was re-written by the Council of Nicea in 300 AD to be a rehash of Jewish legalism, an enslaving theology of inescapeable guilt (original sin) and expiation through the crucifixion. Total BS, but it worked for Rome and has been used as the opiate of the people by the power elite ever since.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Interesting perspective.

You sound like someone i would enjoy having a beer or three with and hashing out the fallacies of theology.

[DenverDem]

15. You would be less heretical, I'll bet,

if the true message of Christ had been allowed to live.

What passes for Christianity today does not stand up to critical assessment by intelligent people, sadly.

[ArwenJade]

4. I think it's actually about control

If Islam or Judaism were more popular I'm sure the republicans would use them to control people. It's the whole "opiate of the masses" thing.

[Jax]

8. I agree

Welcome to DU ArwenJade.

Control is the key.

The so called 'christian right' is neither.


Jax

[MI Cherie]

5. I once saw a bumper sticker ...

... that said "Christians don't have to be perfect, we're forgiven!"

[opihimoimoi]

6. The Redemtion Factor I have to think?

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Isn't that interesting? The only unforgivable sin in Xtianity is blasphemy.

you can kidnap a 5 year old little girl, rape her anally for weeks, eat her liver and bury her alive in a shallow grave and still be forgiven by the almighty and be welcomed to spend eternity in paradise if you just repent and accept christ as your savior.

But suggesting the theology that allows that is little more than superstitious horseshit that deserves to be shunned by all rational thinkers gets you damned for all eternity.

And to think i used to buy all that nonsense.

sorry if i am off topic, but "Faith on Credit" just rubs me the wrong way

[Wonk]

13. CHRISTIAN, n.

One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

- Ambrose Bierce

[strategery blunder]

9. repukes should HATE Christianity

"As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. 'Good teacher,' he asked, 'what must I do to inherit eternal life?'

'Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good--except God alone. You know the commandments: do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'

'Teacher,' he declared, 'all these I have kept since I was a boy.'

Jesus looked at him and loved him. 'One thing you lack,' he said. 'Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'

At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.

Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, 'How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!'"

-Mark 10:17-23 (NIV)

1. Repukes selling everything they have to give to the poor? When will this happen?
2. They did a lot of defrauding and giving false testimony over the Iraq war, among other things.
3. The wars that neocons push for and lie for involve lots of killing and murder.
4. Didn't W's father oppose the war? (Correct me if I'm wrong here)
5. Going back to the giving to the poor, repukes insist on policies that give to the rich instead (tax cuts, anyone?)

To which I'm sure to receive lots of replies about being saved through grace, not works. However, I should not go killing people because I have God's grace.

For the record, I'm a Christian. I just hate to see my religion abused to justify evil deeds such as those the repukes do.

(I just had to correct a typo)

[DieboldMustDie]

10. They don't!

Either they're lying or completely deluding themselves.   Read the Gospels and you'll almost no correlation between what Jesus was preaching and what born again Republicans believe.

[VOX]

12. Fundamentalism appeals to right wingers' black-or-white mentality...

Fundamentalist heaven-or-hell thinking has an appeal to right wing. The ideas of public piousness, suffering making for good work, the all-seeing stern father figure, and viewing the world in absolutes.

* has even spoken a variant of Jesus' "Whoever is not with me is against me" -- "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

[SerpentX]

14. The Old Testament prophets would rip the repukes a new one

How the faithful city has become a harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once lodged in her, But now murderers. Your silver has become dross, Your drink diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, Nor does the widow's plea come before them.
-- Isaiah 1:21-23

Powerful stuff.