Jesus would vote Democratic

Far Left Seattle Pi ^ | Thursday, August 18, 2005 | By LINDA VALDEZ

[jimmyray]

Well quoted!

2 Corinthians 11:3-5 (King James Version) King James Version

3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

As hard as it may be, we must remember that many are deceived, and the "god of this world" has them deceived, in darkness. We battle not against people, but against spiritual forces that wish to destroy the Jews, Christians, and ultimately all humanity, in that order.

[jimmyray]

Double post...oops

[Zeppelin]

yes, yes I remember that one well! =)

I've also seen "God is not a Republican, but the Devil IS a Democrat."

[weegee]

Chipping etched monuments off of walls, prohibiting Jesus shirts in school, the removal of a cross from the city of angels (LA) symbol...

Nope. No revision of the society to suit the godless despots.

[DJ MacWoW]

Usually the mods pull duplicates. I don't understand why he posted the same article twice, by the same writer, from 2 different papers.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465874/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465926/posts

[Steve_Seattle]

"liberals support changes that increase personal freedom and tolerance, and exercise the liberty to empower government to the extent necessary to achieve those ends."

Orwell would love that one. In order to increase personal freedom, we must "empower government." As for whether Jesus would vote Democrat, I personally doubt that he would vote at all. He didn't seem like a voting kind of guy. If you want to point to something in modern society that would compare to Jesus, it would probably be a streetcorner preacher talking about the coming of God and the end of the world, the very kind of person that liberals (and most conservatives, for that matter) love to hoot at.

[AndyTheBear]

Jesus would have been against having Jesus in the public square?

The brilliance of the left is so underwelming.

[AndyTheBear]

In reality, Jesus of Nazareth never wanted the government to endorse, let alone enforce, his religion. Recall the distinction he made between duty to Caesar and duty to God.

Just because Jesus did not challenge Ceasar, does not mean He did not have opinions about government policy. He was extremely outspoken about local policy, particularly the over litigious nature of the Jewish people of the time. He quite forcefully criticized the folks overseeing the day to day Jewish life, for being hypocrites who were only paying lip service and offering empty rituals to His Father.

The Apostle Paul expounded on Christ's point in this. If the person this world puts over you is evil, you should still try your best to do a good job and be a good citizen. But if the people this world puts over you fear God, all the better.

At the founding of our own nation, Congress was forbidden from passing laws interfering with religion -- which was a matter the states disagreed on. They were all Christian, and many states required public officials to be dedicated to Jesus Christ, but they were afraid of the federal government being used to force the Christian doctrine of one state on another.

The idea that either Jesus or our founding fathers would have preferred the penumbrial "separation of church and state" we have today is quite simply wrong.

[pigsmith]

for later