Since the majority of Christians claim to be "conservative Republicans?"  *Why* are you a liberal democrat?  How do you cope, if you do feel like an outsider?
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They cope by having abortions and Gay sex, DUH!
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great post, ranger.\n\nanother thing, too.  christians have difficulty admitting they are a cult.  they are a cult, that's true.\n\nand you are right.  this country was not based on christianity, or the Framers would have declared that in all of those instruments you described.  at least one of them!  \n\nit's amazing where chrisitians "claim" to see christianity, even where it doesn't exist!!\n\nthe idiot, above, who said "you have a self-esteem issue yourself" simply because you posed this question -- he just proved part of your point for you.  these people never cease to amaze me.  i can hardly wait to see how many call you "angry" just for posting these facts.  they'll try to make you look bad, so they can look better, in their own eyes.\n\nsome idiots will come back and try to say "this country is over 2/3 christian" blah blah blah...\n\nwell, guess what?  this country is mostly WHITE.  so, is the US a "White Country"??  get real, you morons!!!\n\nanother thing -- before you clueless cows come on here yakking about "IGWT" on our currency (and "under god" in the pledge of allegiance), let's rememebr it never showed up on our currency until the McCarthy-paranoia of the 1950's.  The comment in the pledge was also added in the 1950's.  Also, IGWT was only placed on a very few US coins right after the Civil War, almost 100 years after the country's founding.  So, that's also an invalid argument.  These things came later!\n\nI already predict that people will lie and claim that most of the Framers were xians.  And then, they'll use "quotes" from madison and jefferson and many others -- quotes that these Framers NEVER QUOTED and that you will not find anywhere in the Smithsonian.  These are all quotes that have been re-edited by Falwell and Co. to make things "look christian".  Been there, done that.  Keep trying, folks.  Like Ranger, I feel sorry for you for needing to go to such lengths to make your religion look better.  It's too bad that you must lie like that!
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Wow-very very true! I can't believe you picked up on that.I thought I was the only one. \n\nyou are very perceptive. Don't Libs understand that it's Christianity that makes them act that way?\n\neverybody listen to this guy-he knows what he's talking about.
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Evangelicals unfortunately are a powerful voter block for the Republican Party, and their sheer size makes them a decisive factor in most elections. What is really sad, and even a bit comical about the entire scenario is that Republicans, after getting elected, don’t do much to promote the evangelical agenda. They merely pay lip service to Christian principals during election time, and then the very people they elect betray them. And yet, every election, without fail, the same cycle repeats of evangelicals overwhelmingly voting to put back the same leader who talks of Christian values, but never acts upon it.\n\nUltimately, it will take more than all of us, who are not evangelicals, voting for Democrats, to truly take seats and power away from the Republicans. In the final analysis, it will take the Democrats convincing the evangelicals that liberal thought, with its emphasis on compassion and magnanimity, has more to do with the teachings of Christ, than the lip service to family values that Republicans utilize every year.
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It's not what they're smoking -- Libs just NEED to feel good about themselves.   I use to be a Democrat and somewhat liberal.  It made me feel good to be on the side of the party of the "common man."  It made me feel good to trash the "rich" Republicans.  It made me feel good to be for peace.  It made me feel good to be for equality.  It made me feel good to support social welfare programs.  Then I started reading and listening and thinking and I concluded that today's Democrats are not the Democrats that my parents and grandparents supported (and therefore I supported). They are more like Socialist who want the CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF AMERICA and a political-economic policy that boarders on communism.   The Socialist programs of the New Deal and The Great Society have failed for the most part and are destroying our country.  Now I am much more conservative, and a great deal worried.
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Good, deep, question, my friend.\n\nLiberals (not as individuals, but overall as a group) hate Jesus and Christianity for two reasons.  One, they worship Bill Clinton, so there is no room for another diety in their world.  Two, the word of Jesus teaches morality, responsibility, honesty, and self-determination.  That all runs completely counter to everything liberals believe in.\n\nSorry liberals.  I hate to call you out like that, but look at your heroes and tell me they aren't a bit challenged in these areas (the Clintons, the Kennedys, Michael Moore...).
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how does one differentiate between 'real christians' and the rest who are somehow........ imaginary?--real christians try to end suffering any way they can--voting is one way they can do this--however, I am kind of glad 'Love my lord' does not
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I'm not sure if it is gay people that you do not like or democrats???? Gay people are just people like you or me. Democrats currently have some pretty good ideas. I voted for quite a few this election. Not because of their party affiliation but based on each individuals agenda. Conservatives are generally against gay marriage, rights etc. That does not always mean that they are republicans. Peace.
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I think christian conservatives represent one group of people that are a total embarrassment to the human race.  Fortunately there are other more advanced groups within America that make up for their ignorance and bigotry.  The christian conservatives are fighting a losing battle because individual rights continue to be extended to previously persecuted groups.  While many cling to religion because they are not intellectually capable of doing their own independent analysis of life, humanity is evolving and realizing that religion is a human creation - one that has been created differently by each of the thousands of cultures ever to have existed.
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Sorry, I can't answer that...\nI'm not a right-wing radical christian funda(mental)ist
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If you read the Bible, the New Testament more precisely, and read the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes most accurately, you will find the Jesus spoke to the multitudes that today most definitely are issues that are being attended to by Liberals.  Jesus address helping the poor more than anyother subject in the Bible.  He usually talk about the rich as having a very hard time getting into heaven.  Now look at the conrvatives vs. the liberals...    The rich are associated usually with conservative and the poor and sinful are usually associated with the liberals.  There are millions of libral Christians in the United States, only the conservatives think they are religious though.  Somewhat like the Pharisees in the Bible.  Always taughting how good and holy they are and how sinful the liberals and Democrates are.  Well, Jesus hung out with those sinners and poor people.  The consevaTARDs are going to have a real shock when they get up to the pearly gates.  Most likely you are on the left-center of the American political  spectrum.
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First off, full disclosure:  I'm white, middle-aged (46), well-educated (2 bachelor's and a master's degree), and make a mid 6-figure income -- and almost always vote democratic, although NO party tells me what to do :)\n\nRace is the worst of the indicators you mention -- that used to be a better one, but it's changed much in the past 20 years.  Class is still a pretty good indicator:  poorer people vote more democratic, richer people vote more republican, and the middle-class is fairly well split.  However, religion trumps them all:  those who identify themselves as "fundamentalist" christian vote over 75% republican, as do mormons and a few other sects.  Catholics lean more heavily towards democratic (65%).  Most christians who do not identify as "fundamentalist" are pretty evenly split.  And those who say they have no religion are heavily democratic.\n\nWhy?  Because fundamentalist church leaders made huge contributions to the republicans, and "sold their souls" to that party -- at the same time, the republican party "sold their souls" to the fundamentalist christians, giving up many traditional republican ideals, in order to get as much of that block of people as possible.\nPower, that's why :(
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Republicans pander to the Christian community, they pretend to have Christian values to get their votes. The conservative Christians preach that homosexuality is wrong. The republicans , who obviously don't believe that, simply latch on to this belief and make it a moral cause to stop the gays. They win elections on issues like gays, abortion, prayer in school etc. while they could care less about those issues they remain extremely important to them as a control tool in moving their voting base to the polls. If the republicans revealed their true selves they could kiss their base goodbye. All that matters to Republicans is power and money. They will lie, cheat, steal, and hide behind God until they get caught. And then they will still lie, cheat, steal and hide behind God in an attempt to weasel out of it.
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As a Christian, I'd say that the morally bankrupt don't want us to speak out because they don't want to be limited by our morality.  I would say that most non-Christains are morally sound, but there IS evil in the world. One cannot be an active Christian in any context without being attacked, because darkness hates the light.  That's why we have to put on the armour of God every day.\nI'd also say that I'm a moderate Democrat, and I know Christians who are liberal Democrats.  It is too bad that some people in any belief system can't tolerate those who disagree with them, even when it's a matter of opinion and not morality.
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nahh.\n\nNot all so-called Christians are close-minded jerks.  Some of us have brains and don't vote on party lines just cuz the Bishop tells us to . . .\n\nKeep the faith.  Keep using the brain God gave you.
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I am SO HAPPY you brought this up.  I have been trying to figure out how to bring up the exact same thing.\n\nI am a Christian woman.  I am also a VERY PROUD AMERICAN! I have stated elsewhere here that I think we live in the greatest country in the world. For that, I was accused of being biased on the rest of my answer to a question. My response was something to the effect of, You bet I am!\n\n http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AubWJu0Gnc1GUlucTx9SMdDsy6IX?qid=1006021204382\n\n\nNow with that said we are FAR from perfect. As often as this site has made me feel proud to be a Christian and an American, it has made me equally ashamed to be. Being able to honestly say that, makes me sadder than I can express to you.\n\nFor all the brilliant and wonderful people we have in this country, we also have some of the absolute, MOST ignorant! This is the land of freedoms and opportuntites. Unfortunately some people take their rights to be ignorant and stupid to extremes.\n\nNow granted, a portion of the problem, is the chronilogical age of some of the users. I think most people can recognize them and forgive them for their indiscretions here. There is good reason to believe that they will mature as they grow.\n\nThere are so many people here, who truly do not understand what an amazing thing we have here with Yahoo! Answers. I think there are just so many that do not realize that this really IS a direct link to the rest of the world. Instantly.\n\nI on occasion, go to the Politics and or Religions catagories. The "discussions"  that go on in some of these threads is amazing.  We can actually ask people that we are at war with, What do they think about it. Me! You! Everyone here! CAN actually talk to not only your friends and neighbors here, but ALSO those that we are at war with! Right NOW!  What greater tool for peace could there be. The potential is phenominal!  The war is no longer somewhere, on the other side of the world.  It is with the guy I was talking to about religion or politics or anything else, to last night before I went to bed. And you know what? He had to agree with some of my points, and I had to agree with some of his.  Sometimes we have no clue who, we are agreeing with!  Then you have people enter these threads, that just come out with the most assenine things. The worst of course was a man who claimed to be an Anerican Christian Doctor.  He would enter religious threads and start swearing at people who had a different opinion than he.  He answered some medical questions by prescribing self mutilation.  He had made suggestions in both catagories that people should just go and kill themselves. How ignorant.\n\nThe rest of the world sees us as blind sheep that are led reasonlessly by our media.  They think that we could not put two thought together if we were not told what they were first. They also think that we blindly follow our government, without questioning it. They think that we have no respect for ourselves, let alone anyone else. I think they also think that we greatly abuse our "freedoms", and flaunt them to the rest of the world. They think that we are arrogant, and that we have no vision of existence outside of our own boarders.\n\nI am afraid that I agree, that many users on this site reinforce those beliefs.  I stated in another answer, somewhere else, that I do not think that "many Americans" realize that this IS an international site, and that IF they did, I would hope that they would behave better.
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I am a Bible believing Christian and live in Texas, but never supported the man, especially in his unjustified invasion of Iraq. I know that if it were not for church folks, team George W. Bush would never have gotten enough support to invade Iraq. Ironic, isn't it? Almost everyone saw the hypocrisy but church folks. As per religious, the man is - but being religious does not mean being a Christian just as being a republican does not mean being a Christian.