They institute policies that favor the wealthy and burden generations to come, while using deception and outright lies to promote their agenda.  Jesus would not stand for this, so why do so many Christians?
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This is another long one, sorry, but asking complicated questions and expecting short simple answers, isn’t realistic.\n\nThe religious right has two issues with Democrats; abortion and homosexuality.  Their need to impose their beliefs onto others is their motivating force behind supporting the Republican Party.  \n\nI am against abortion, but instead of creating laws which take control of a person’s beliefs and body out of that person’s hands, I believe in working harder to create a world where teenagers don’t get pregnant with unwanted children, where fathers don’t rape their children, and life is considered a gift from God.  Instead of being so determined to force a person to give birth to a child who will live a life of abuse and neglect or be dumped in a trash dumpster, they should work harder to create a world where people want to keep their children.  I believe they have given up on the power of faith and prayer.\n\nAs for homosexuality, most Christians don’t understand what the Bible says about homosexuality; they keep quoting a scripture from Leviticus which is alongside scriptures which condemn wearing cotton, shaving, and eating shell fish.  None of these Christians follow those rules, but still quote good old Leviticus to condemn something Jesus said nothing about. \n\nUsing watered down versions of the Bible which replaces the words for male prostitutes and rapists with homosexuals (a word and a culture which did not exist during the writing of the Bible), the Christian right are lost in a sea of misinformation.  \n\nInstead of following what Jesus commanded, they use the scriptures to justify what Jesus warned them not to do;  throw the first stone and judge in God’s name.\n\nUnfortunately there’s a lot of truth to what “bring ‘em on” says.  Up until the mid 1940’s modern day Republicans were Southern Democrats.  When Truman betrayed the party’s agenda of a segregated America by introducing the Fair Deal, they switched to the Republican Party.\n\nThe Republican puppeteers use the issues of abortion and homosexuality to instill fear into well meaning Christians in order to gain support for their agenda of a white, rich, segregated America.\n\nThe history is long and complicated and most people don’t have the desire to study Plato, Shakespeare, and read the philosophies of a man by the name of Emanuel Kant.  They don’t know who the Bones or the Skull and Crossbones are or how they originated.  It was no accident Roosevelt stayed out of WWII until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor or that every American city named Delano is almost 100% white. They take the word of their leaders and don’t know much about underlying philosophies of their party.\n\nTo learn all the history, or study a man named Erasmus, or understand how the Bible came about, takes years of research and can’t be found on some propagandist web-site.   The answer to your question is written in the history of mankind by philosophers, religious leaders and world rulers, but is like a mystery which you must unravel.
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Capitalism as a religion, you should read Mathew. It was clearly stated who those people are that oppose the rise of Christianity, they had him put up on the cross.
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all religion is hypocracy, and the neo-cons have taken it as their mantle. Thus , by extension, they themselves are the hypocrits. Jesus' teachings taught tollerance and helping your fellow human. Neo-cons help themselves( to whatever they want, whenever they want) at the expence of the poorest majority of the world. Thou shall not kill, though shall not steal, thou shall not bear false witness, though shall not covet, thou shall not worship false idols ( money, oil) I don't need lessons in morality from murderers and theives.
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they dont want to accept the fact that Jesus was God and dont want to convert or go to mass or do something for God.\nthey just want to be ignorant and live life according to their will. they dont want to acknowledge Jesus as God or else they will have to give up time and worship Him.
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Honestly, I would not be opposed to our govrnment basing many of its policies on the teachings of Jesus Christ. The problem is is that these "Christians" have very little of Christ about them and their actions. Therein lies the real problem.\n\nThink about it, for a minute. Christ's teachings are quite secular for the most part. It's when people who believe that they are the only ones who know how God thinks and what God and Jesus REALLY meant deciding that their interpretaion is the only Ture & Correct Version and try impose that on the rest of that I have a huge problem with.
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Well actually quite a few of us Christians don't like televangelists. We're well aware that a lot are greedy and are basically stealing from their followers. Many of them preach VERY false dangerous doctrines though once in a blue moon a decent preacher gets on TV, but sadly without all the flash and glitter, they dont last long :(
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the christians i know either could care less about the bible [most of them] or they're intensely conservative, in every way.\n\nthey tend to counter the argument that they should help the poor with an angry proclamation that they are called to be good stewards of their finances.
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Jesus didnt come to bring division, He taught that by following him, choosing to follow Him, would bring division in family and in the world, because those who chose not to follow will often chastise, gossip and try to persuade a believer to "come back".....the world often sees a follower of Christ in a negative light because it justifies their choice of ungodliness, a believer should have the truth of God in their hearts and endure the trials and persecutions of being a Christian and rest in the truth that they are covered by Gods rich mercy...and to rest there always
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Because if he would have reveled to them the secret of his parables they would have seen and heard and been converted do to the simplicity that is in Christ. So they and many still today are made blind to the truth.
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Yes! This is what they think about instead really helping the poor, being merciful and kind, and setting a Christ like example. They also worry about how they will fill their Lexus SUV Jesus Fish Stickered vehicle with gasoline and still give to the new carpet fund at church/
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We are saying that the story of Jesus was probably embellished alot down the line. Perhaps he did not claim to be the son of god, maybe he was just a prophet or political activist who gained people's admiration - and ended up being persecuted by the politicians of the time for spreading his political message.
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many do know ,but do not like to admit it or rather pretend that everything is ok.Otherwise they have to come to terms with reality ,and religion is a drug after all,which absolves the people from reality and places them in a contented fantasy with all questions answered.\n\nthat the bible is a document compiled ,over the centuries ,updated periodicly to adjust to the times and people threshold of credibility is certain.\n\nWritten by devious old men as part of a ancient stratey for manipulation,power,finance  with control as a goal\nwith a complex agenda which to this day is being persued\n\nthat this agenda exists  is being revealed more  and more ,this being the age of revelations (as is mentioned by Terance MacKenna,Nostradamus,Jesus to name a few the dawn of the new milinium being a time of great revalations)\n(check www,infowars-David Icke the biggest secret)
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This may come as a shock to you, but there are conscientious objectors who are not Christians, and there are Christians who base their religion on more than the Bible.\n\nGo talk to your Sunday school teacher about this, and leave us out of it.
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Because they are too lazy and closed minded to actually think things through properly.\n\nMost people would rather plaster a tag on everyone that actually consider the fact that we are all individuals.\n\nSomeone answered a question under religion by saying Christians are lazy and sheep-like, but the truth is that many non-Christians are just the same, they'll follow the crowd rather than making up their own mind.  God created us as free-thinking individuals on purpose, and while some say it backfired by allowing evil to enter the world, the fact is that God has many many followers all over the world who have all chosen to follow him, rather than just blindly allowing themselves to follow the crowd.
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Because rich people worship money and possession, and poor people have neither; therefore, they worship Jesus.
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I think there are a few things going on here.  Some of these people, indeed maybe all, deep down are haunted by the idea maybe there IS  a God they will be responsible to and are bitter about the whole thing and want to badger us.  Some of them want to expose the woeful lack of knowledge many Christians have to defend their faith (which is very logical and sensible and many extremely intelligent people embrace it)  We must remember, the cross is an offense to people.  Those of the world killed Christ and the world will always hate us.  These people will hate our uninformed anwers and they will hate our informed will reasoned answers.  They are a waste of time.  I believe this is what Jesus referred to when He said not to cast your pearls before swine.  Our time is too short.  Save time for the true seekers.  They are not too hard to find.  Also, study to show thyself approved so you can give a good defense for our faith, not just scripture but how it makes sense in our world and state of existence as a whole.
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Its not. The thing is that Jesus Christ set a particular lifestyle one that many find hard to live. They love their sins and refuse to give them up. For this reason they resent and hate those that "preach" this. \n\nAlso some people feel that due to the way Jesus died that we are going to hate Jewish people. That's silly its completely opposite of his teachings of brotherly love. Jesus forgave those that were hurting him at that time. So I must do the same. Besides I can't hold an entire race or faith resposible for things done by specific few over 2000 years ago.