God is Not a Republican

[meow2u3]

Although there are many who have tried to label the Almighty as such, he is NOT of the GOP persuasion. I am speaking as one who would typically be labeled a Republican because of my faith. However, in this last year of the election cycle and all the ideological debates and action (or non-action) since, it has never been clearer why Jesus is not a Republican.

To God, it is not about your party preference, your gender, ethnicity or race…it is all about values. The values you believe and live. Even though we may not hear about it much on the media circuit, there are a substantial amount of Christians in the United States who believe their values are better supported by the Democratic platform than the GOP. Is the Democratic platform the perfect Christian values platform? Of course not! But since we do not live in a theocracy, we of the Christian faith must choose which party platform we believe most encompasses the values The Word of God speaks of most and tells us to care about most…and to millions of Americans, that is the Democratic Party.

The difference between how Democratic Christians carry themselves and what we’ve seen with the GOP is Democrats generally have no false illusion that we have a monopoly on Christian values. You don’t hear Christian Democrats labeling the GOP as Godless, Anti-God, or without values as you hear from the Right, or as we do at CDA every day. For example, believing that a woman has a right to choose isn’t an endorsement for abortion. Christian Democrats and Republicans are not really as far apart on this issue as is often presented – we have a mutual goal of reduction in the number of abortions that take place. We simply disagree on what type of policies will best bring about that reduction. The Republicans utilizing the term Pro-life, suggest others would be anti-life; which is not the case. I cannot find any scripture that suggests government should infringe upon free will.

http://www.christiandemocratsofamerica.org/blog/2013/01/07/god-is-not-a-republican/

[cbayer]

1. Well, I'm glad she concludes that god has not political affiliation.

The data supports her take on those is the US, though. While non-believers tend to be registered democrats, believers are pretty evenly split between the two major parties (with a significant number of independents in between).

[trotsky]

3. Registration vs. voting

With the exception of minorities, Christians tend to vote overwhelmingly Republican in this country.

[el_bryanto]

5. Why discount minorities? nt

[trotsky]

7. I'm not.

I'm pointing out that white Christians - the largest group in the US - strongly vote Republican.

[el_bryanto]

8. It's interesting

Do church going whites go to mainstream conservative churches because they are conservatives who are worried about losing their special priviliges in society? Or are they conservatives who fear minorities because they are taught that at conservative churches?

I would argue it's probably a mixture.

Bryant

[trotsky]

9. And similarly,

do minority Christians vote Democratic because of their faith, or because of the Republican party's proven hostility toward minorities?

[el_bryanto]

10. That's a little easier though - I think most would agree with the latter.

Republicans have a point that when it comes to many of the values issues that they care about, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to get church-going Blacks and Hispanics, but they don't seem to make any headway, because unlike comfortable middle class whites, Black and Hispanics can't afford to ignore Republicans cruel economic policies, let alone their clear hostility to minority communities.

Bryant

[okasha]

2. Of course she isn't.

n/t

[Ricochet21]

4. No

He's not
She's not
It's not

[moobu2]

11. It's pretty obvious God is a Republican

source: common sense.

[MellowDem]

12. God's a tyrannical dictator...

At least the God of the Bible is. He fits the definition pretty well. Look up how many people God killed himself. Then combine that with how many people God ordered killed through his servants. Hell, the devil barely killed any, and that was with god's permission as part of a fun bet god made about Lot.

Gotta wonder how a Christian Democrat likes worshipping a god that has slaughtered innocent babies or committed mass genocide of the whole world or requires worship and love, the consequence of which not doing is eternal torture. I'd say massive doses of intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance.