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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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09 Jun 2005 09:22:28 PM |
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Republicans: The Anti-Christian, Christian Party |
http://www.opednews.com/crockett_060905_antichristian.htm
Republicans: The Anti-Christian, Christian Party
by Stephen Crockett
Howard Dean has received a great deal of unfair criticism for calling
the Republicans a "pretty much white Christian party."
Dean was actually far too mild in his comments and his description of
the Republican Party in regards to their narrow demographic and
ideological base.
Personally, this writer does disagree with Dean on only one aspect of
his comment.
The Republicans calling themselves Christian are promoting an
essentially anti-Christian agenda.
While these so-called "Christian Right" political leaders claim to
speak for the Christians of America, I think they are actually
speaking only for a small minority of Christians who are placing Bush
Republicanism above the teachings of Jesus Christ.
I am a Southern, white Christian male.
I am a fairly conservative Democrat.
I completely oppose the entire Republican agenda because my Christian
faith and values are deeply offended by the greed and intolerance of
Bush Republicanism.
These values and the Christian theology behind them were explored in
my column "Faith in Politics" written back in October of 2001 (see
http://www.democratictalkradio.com/demvoices002.html ).
Dean should not give the Republicans the benefit of exclusive use of
the Christian label for an essentially anti-Christian political
message.
Real Christians love the poor and look down on anyone with a political
agenda designed to benefit the wealthiest of the wealthy.
The invasion of Iraq based on lying to the voters and deceiving our
elected lawmakers is hardly the behavior of good Christians.
A brief look at the Downing Street memo shows that Bush and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair had already started a war with Iraq while
the UN’s Weapons of Mass Destruction inspectors were still in Iraq and
long before Congress voted to give Bush the legal power to launch his
unwise military adventure.
Are these the behaviors of good Christians?
The politicization of the Christian church has benefited the
Republican Party instead of the Christian church.
It is an insult to many real Christians to call the attack on the
Separation of Church and State a pro-Christian political agenda.
Our Founding Fathers advocated this measure almost universally to
protect both the government and our Churches.
Politics and money are corrupting many churches especially those led
by so-called "Christian Right" preachers.
I urge all Democrats to challenge the Republican claim on the
Christian label at every opportunity.
I urge all Christians to challenge all their church leaders who seek
to promote a partisan political agenda.
I want to add my sincere admonishment to all Christians to look for
passages in the Bible about helping the poor and not judging others
faith or behavior in religious terms.
Ask yourself if the Republican agenda financially benefits the poor
and helpless versus the rich and powerful before you make the
political choices.
I think we need to ask ourselves, "What would Jesus do?"
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| User: "John Popelish" |
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| Title: Re: Republicans: The Anti-Christian, Christian Party |
09 Jun 2005 10:08:33 PM |
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Fredric L. Rice wrote:
http://www.opednews.com/crockett_060905_antichristian.htm
Republicans: The Anti-Christian, Christian Party
by Stephen Crockett
Howard Dean has received a great deal of unfair criticism for calling
the Republicans a "pretty much white Christian party."
(snip)
Ask yourself if the Republican agenda financially benefits the poor
and helpless versus the rich and powerful before you make the
political choices.
I think we need to ask ourselves, "What would Jesus do?"
I think the Republican party appeals to a very specific kind of
Christian. That would be the ones that think that God demonstrates
his love for particular believers by making them rich.
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