Would Jesus join the Republican party, a pro life party, or the Democrat party, the party of the poor?
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He would either join the Independants or he would start his own party.
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Not all Republicans associate with the Religious Right, and he certainly doesn't seem to. It is possible, and highly likely, that it his views on foreign policy or economics that are conservative.\n\n(Furthermore, he is likely more moderate, as his current significant other is very much a Democrat. Not that that really says anything, but were he a more of a hard-line conservative it seems to me that their pairing would be unlikely.)
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There are many types of Republicans. My favorite is the Christian Coalition.\n\nIf any Democrat heretics are here, I will pray that you may repent, and become a saved Republican.\n\nCome to Jesus
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Yes.  Many of Jesus harshest were reserved for fundamentalists who condemn others, are fiercely nationalistic (who is my neighbor), those who are proud, and those who put too much emphasis on money and personal wealth.\n\nThe only way he could have been more clear is to just come out and say "Dont' be like the Republicans!"  \n\nJesus spoke about peace, turning the other cheek, healing the sick, helping the poor, giving up weath to benefit the poor, and believeing that real power stems from humility, and understanding, not pride and strength.  \n\nThat sounds pretty liberal to me....\n\nIf Jesus were alive today, Ann Coulter would already have 2 books about how dangerous he is for the country.
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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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I really liked how Steven Colbert defined the differences between Republican movement for small government and Democrat movement for big government, in terms of Christian values.\n\nsmall government (Republican) -- use the name of Jesus alot in speeches, seek to control private life while avoiding control over community services\n\nbig government (Democrat) -- heal the sick (Medicaid/Medicare), care for the poor (Social Security, vocational training, and welfare programs), sit with and seek to guide sinners (e.g. prison programs, etc.), suffer the children to come unto you (child welfare and education), seek to control community services while avoiding control of private life\n\nHmmm... so who's acting more Christian?
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Your question, though understandable, is lacking.  You cannot limit hypocrisy to just fundamentalists, or to just Christians.  Hypocrites are everywhere and in every society.  Your question is valid, and brings up good points, but it seems more like a statement than anything else.  I may be wrong, but I feel that you wouldn't be satisfied with any answer that is given to you.\n     Personally, I do not support welfare because I would rather become involved in people's lives and help them that way instead of just giving them money as the solution.  For your questions about war and capital punishment, I do not know.  But I do know what Christians need to do, and that is to be there to help those who need help, and show the love of Christ to those that need love.  Do they do it?  Not all the time. Some do, and some don't.  No institution, society, or group will always do what they should.  It's a sad fact about being human.  Not excusable, but it's a fact nonetheless.\n     As for your last sentence, Christianity is not a political party.  Being a Christian does not mean you have to be a republican.  I do not know why people seem to think that.
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Jesus was neither a Republican or a Democrat.
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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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REPUBLICAN-The Republican Party is the more socially conservative and economically libertarian of the two major parties, and has closer ties to both Wall Street (large corporations) and Main Street (locally owned businesses) than do the Democrats and less affiliation with labor unions. Republicans have a strong belief in personal responsibility, limited government, and corporate entrepreneurship. Republicans generally oppose gay marriage, oppose abortion, and oppose embryonic stem cell research.   center-right wing\n\nDEMOCRAT-The party has favored farmers, laborers, labor unions, and religious and ethnic minorities; it has opposed unregulated business and finance, and favored progressive income taxes. In foreign policy, internationalism (including interventionism) was a dominant theme from 1913 to the mid 1960s. In the 1930s, the party began advocating welfare spending programs targeted at the poor. Since the 1970s, environmentalism has been a major new component.\nIn recent decades, the Party advocates civil liberties, social freedoms, equal rights, equal opportunity, and a free enterprise system tempered by government intervention (what economists call a mixed-economy). The Party believes that government should play a role in alleviating poverty and social injustice, even if that means a larger role for government and progressive taxation to pay for social services. They support gay marriage, abortion, and stem call research.\n\nLEFT-WING-In politics, left-wing, the political left or simply the left are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of, to varying extents, socialism, green politics, anarchism, communism, social democracy, progressivism, American liberalism or social liberalism, and defined in contradistinction to its polar opposite, the right. The left often works to eliminate high levels of inequality.\n\nRIGHT-WING-In politics, right-wing, the political right or simply the right, are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of monarchism, reactionism, conservatism, the religious right, nationalism, fascism, or simply the opposite of left-wing politics.\nThe right advanced capitalism, whereas the left advocated socialism (often democratic socialism) or communism.\n\nLIBERAL-Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. Liberalism has its roots in the Western Age of Enlightenment, but the term now encompasses a diversity of political thought. Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights. It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, free public education, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected. In modern society, liberals favor a liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law and an equal opportunity to succeed.\n\nCONSERVATIVE-Conservatism is a political philosophy that necessitates a defense of established values. Since different cultures have different established values, conservatives in different cultures have different goals. Some conservatives seek to preserve the status quo, while others seek to return to the values of an earlier time, the status quo ante.
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Jesus says: "Give all your wealth to the poor."\n\nThe Pharisees reply: "...so you become poor. good solution. not."
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Christian values also refer to "Do not kill"!  And that's what abortion does, it kill innocent children.  So, how could anyone that says they are a Christian vote for a party that believes in abortion!  I vote Republican.
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Republicans. He didn't take a party label, but his principles were clearly Federalist. He certainly believed in a strong defense. I don't think any of our founding fathers would support most of the Dem social positions such as gay marriage & abortion.
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Independent Party.  It appears in the Bible that he didn't go for the popular views of society.
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This would be the best answer to the Republican Party - that way they would quit being shameless liars and saying that they spoke to "GOD" and "God told them to do this or that"\n\nThough there is SUPPOSED to be a seperation of Church and State, they never seem to abide by that rule either
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When confronted with that question, Christians  typically cite the passage from Matthew 5:38, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." \n\nBut the real answer is a bit more complex and has to do with political divisions in America and "the party line." When the Republican Party began seriously courting the Christian voter base they made some, previously ambiguous, positions clear, like the "right to life" position. They, however, retained the some of the old ways, such as capital punishment and many Republican Christians simply go along with the "party line." \n\nYou may also want to ask the question: "Why do Christians vote Republican?"
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Another moral question: Christian Republicans are pro-life, yet pro-war.