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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: MrsSmith on February 23, 2009, 08:28:36 PM
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Wow, someone worships Republicans?? :o :o :o :-)
AllentownJake 1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 07:28 PM
Original message (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8220083)
The Religion of Republicans is the oddest thing in the world
Advertisements [?]Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 07:30 PM by AllentownJake
Now, I'm going to premise this with I'm a man of faith which sometimes opens people to ridicule on here. If your an atheist fine, I've been one of those, if your a Christian, fine I am one of those. My faith works for me and that entire freedom of Religion thing in the constitution means you have the freedom to your beliefs and I have the freedom to mine and the Republicans have their own wacky freedom to theirs.
However, I've never seen a faith so hypocritical than the Christianity that republicans ascribe to.
1) Gun ownership. They are part of a religion that they were instructed not to live by the sword. The founder of their religion went willingly to his death and the early followers were all martyred. They did not protect themselves with weapons, or organize militias. They did not believe they had to build up protection plans because they were secure in their faith and willing to die for it. I've talked to numerous right wing Christians in my life who feel its necessary to have weapons in case they have to "protect" themselves. The founder of their religion and his early followers never tried to protect themselves and they were enemies of the state to the highest degree.
2) The entire Gay thing. These people are obsessed with Gay people. They are so uncomfortable with someone who is different than themselves that they go absolutely insane. The founder of their religion talked to everyone and treated them with mercy. Beggars, lepers, tax collectors, Samaratins (which were enemies and hate by the society of their time). They pull a few obscure verses from the Bible and they use it as a fundamental tenet of their faith...Gay=evil. The other odd thing is Jesus actually talked about divorce yet these people statistically have divorce rates as high as the rest of the population.
3) Abortion and birth control. The other issue that really gets these people into a fire breathing rage. They won't fund birth control and they won't fund anything to aid for single parents so they can advance economically whether education, childcare, healthcare, etc. No mercy if you get pregnant. Most of these people also have come to their "moral" realization later in life. Most of them had sex outside of marriage. While they might now wish they hadn't they wish to judge and deny their own children and the children of others for the same thing they did in their youth.
4) Economics, its acceptable to reward gambling (capital gains), keep taxes relatively high on the poor and middle class, and give the rich in this country a free ride. They do this because like Joe the idiot plumber they all have this deluded idea that they will one day be rich. Yet their own scripture says its nearly impossible for rich people to go to heaven which is supposedly their aim in life.
They also fail to understand that most of the people or corporations that they are cutting taxes for aren't going to keep the money in America. American companies get a tax cut unencumbered to doing something good for America guess what they do, they take the money and invest it in a factory in the third world because the labor cost are cheaper. The money earned here is outflowed overseas because the company knows they can make more money by eliminating the American work force that built them. So instead of that money going into the US to keep our infrastructure stable, provide healthcare for the citizens, or be invested in public education to keep American children competitive in the world the money goes to another country. They fail to see that the rich in this country and the corporations committ TREASON every day.
5) Freedom- Their religion is based on free will. Man has a decision to make about his life and will be held responsible for that decision. Yet they want to forcefully legislate their morality and their beliefs. They attack Muslim extremist everyday but when you strip the name of which particular prophet they are following the aims of Osama Bin Laden and Dominionist Rick Warren are no different. A theocracy.
Sorry I was driving home today and the frustration of the hypocrisy of these beliefs just gets into my craw.
Well, that is a pretty odd thing. Of course, it bears no resemblence to Christianity, which would explain all that oddness. :-)
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forcing their faith on others??
thats called LIBERAL SOCIALISM
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They are so uncomfortable with someone who is different than themselves that they go absolutely insane.
Of course all mention of Sarah Palin,Clarence Thomas.... is completely rational and polite at the DUmp.
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Of course all mention of Sarah Palin,Clarence Thomas.... is completely rational and polite at the DUmp.
dissent is now an evil thing in DU
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When a typical liberal will have the same hate toward an islamic jihadi that they do to a normal tax paying, charity giving and volunteering republican I will drop dead. I plan on a very, very long life.
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dissent is now has always been an evil thing in DU
fixt
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AllentownJake, you are FAIL for both your vocabulary ("Premise this" - WTF? You meant "Preface this"), and your knowledge of history (Your discussion of all those unarmed martyrs kind of omitted the entire Crusades, el Cid, Alfred the Great's defeat of the pagans, Roland at the pass of Ronceveaux, etc., etc.).
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They do this because like Joe the idiot plumber they all have this deluded idea that they will one day be rich. It used to be called "The American Dream" before it became a liberal "sin". Yet their own scripture says its nearly impossible for rich people to go to heaven which is supposedly their aim in life. Well, if you look at a comparison of charitable giving by DUmmies and republicans, they'll be no DUmmies in heaven.
These people are obsessed with Gay people. Well, if heaven is a lot like San Francisco....I don't want to go.
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I am so sick and tired of these cretins always thinking that every republican or conservative is rich and greedy. Jesus Christ, help me. I'm not getting out a violin here, but I am not rich or greedy and I hate being falsely accused of a crime, when I have to carefully plan out paycheck to paycheck.
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I am so sick and tired of these cretins always thinking that every republican or conservative is rich and greedy. Jesus Christ, help me. I'm not getting out a violin here, but I am not rich or greedy and I hate being falsely accused of a crime, when I have to carefully plan out paycheck to paycheck.
In a socialist 'utopia' everyone is considered a criminal by those in charge
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I am so sick and tired of these cretins always thinking that every republican or conservative is rich and greedy. Jesus Christ, help me. I'm not getting out a violin here, but I am not rich or greedy and I hate being falsely accused of a crime, when I have to carefully plan out paycheck to paycheck.
In that case, you should stop voting against your best interests. Vote Democrat!! [/DUmpMode]
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These points were quite clearly made in "Who Really Cares," by Arthur Brooks. When it came out, there were several DUmp threads about it. They did their usual song-and-dance...they just completely denied the facts, and then complained that poor Repukes are too stupid to vote correctly.
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Do not think I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. - Jesus Christ, Mt. 10:34
Suck it DUmmies!
Cindie