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Too long - if he can summarize it, I would be interested.
I'm sorry, this is bogus.
Christians are always Christian first. If they look conservative to outsiders, because they adhere to ancient values, the fact is that those ancient values are very much alive in the here and now.
The primary difference between the two parties is actually quite simple; one party prefers a more centralized government, and one prefers at least in theory a more de-centralized approach. Christians could in good conscience easily fall on either side of this divide, and traditionally you have found genuine Christians in both parties.
But in recent decades one party has been captured by hard-left activists, who are notably hostile to believers, and has furthermore raised up abortion as its defining issue.
As a consequence the Democratic Party has been bleeding believers. They lose more every year, and not only "protestants" but catholics and believing jews as well. If one party has become identified with believers more than the other, it is because one party has made it increasingly difficult for believers to remain in its ranks.
If the GOP is the party less hostile to believers, it is bizarre that he would be complaining of that. Either he can accept that it is so and join his brothers there, or if he finds that he really prefers the DNC's emphasis on centralized government solutions, he could focus on helping like-minded Christians take the Democratic Party back from the anti-God ideologues who presently control it.
Good luck with that.
Didn't Karl Marx already establish that alliance and movement?
I got sick of reading his dribble. He needs to compress his thoughts if he wants anyone to read him.
For me to put things into one or two sentences, I disagree with his title. The religious right, the moral majority, whatever you want to call it, cannot coincide with the democratic party. What does light have to do with darkness? Everything we fight against, they fight for. We call good, good, and evil evil. They call evil good, and good evil.
The guy is an idiot.
written by a typical “democratic socialist”, which many Catholic intellectuals privately admit they are
When human persons become objects to be disposed of for parts, we have simply embraced a new form of slavery where an entire class of persons has become less than human.
Without a doubt, the alliance of Christian believers with any political movement will always be a fragile one. We're witnessing that in 2008.
Whatever this talented author may have said: I know the real reason why the “religious right” has lost its way since I am part of the new generation, and know many ‘young Christians’ or those from Christian households: The reason we have ‘Lost’ our way is that many Churches have ‘Stopped preaching Biblical truth’- instead prefering emergent theology (or making themselves look like the world). Christ said we should be in the world, but not of it. We should not be like the world and ‘try to mimic it’..which is what many churches in the US now try to do. At least with the Catholic Church (though I disagree with some of their theology and they have been infiltrated by some sinful groups), they are consistent and do not easily fall to fads and things of the world!
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Many, not all, but many Roman Catholics I know only vote Republican because of the pro-life platform of the party. If that were dropped or the dems ran a pro-life candidate they would be only too happy to vote dem. They would like us to have universal health care and see welfare as Christian responsibilty.
Those Catholics and Christians who constantly side with the Democrats on abortion, sex education and socialism.