Why are fundamentalist Christians nearly always Republican?
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First, it is best to understand the belief systems of Fundamentalist Christians. They believe that everything is black or white. There should always be a definitive answer for situations, in order that they know where they stand with God and with others. \n\nFundamentalist Christians also believe in righteous living. If you do everything right, you will be rewarded. If you live a bad life, you will be punished. In essence it is the results that matter. Fundamentalist Christians also are conservative in their views and way of life. they operate under the belief, "if its' not broke don't fix it."\n\nThese beliefs line up well with the current belief system of the Republican party. The Republican party believes what is good for business, is good for the country. If someone is down and out, it is their own fault. If you work hard enough, you will live out the American Dream.\n\nSad to say this is not true. I read a report last night that says America now is dead last of countries where someone from the bottom rung of the ladder can move up to the top. This is a striking difference from the sixties where America was at the top rung of the ladder.\n\nWith this in mind, I caution that not all fundamentalists are this way as well as Republicans. It does take courage however, to admit that there is more than one answer to difficult situations. It takes a great deal of compassion to reach out to those who are oppressed and downtrodden. It requires determination, resolve, and fortitude to observe the need for and to make those changes necessary where situations dictate the need for this to occur in the life of individuals, communities and our country.
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Still sounds like good enough reasons to be Republican in my book.\n\nEDIT:  They'll never get it.  Eye for an eye.  Don't pass children through the fires of Molech (hedonism).  Don't worry about it, they'll get it when a criminal has a gun to their head.
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Yes because most right wing Christians are pussies who worship Bush as opposed to God. They are fine with war as long as it is not their blood being shed. Most of them are wimps who wouldn't fight anyway.
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Hate is a strong world but I'll tell you why I greatly dislike Republicans.  They are hypocrites.  They say one thing and do the exact opposite. Can we say big government and zooming out of control debt. They say they're pro-life but are not.  They may be anti-abortion but they are not pro life.  They support the death penalty, wars, and uninsured poor Americans that have all kind of medical problems that lead to death because they can't secure the proper medical help.  They really don't believe much in family values either.  If Jesus Christ came back and preach the "Sermon on the Mount" again (The Beatitudes) the Republicans would have him crucified again.  They don't believe in just wages for hard work.  The Bible has over 5,000 verses about the poor and poverty and how people should help when they can.  Jesus Christ never once mentions homosexuality or abortion, but he sure did talk about caring for the poor.  Republicans care about the rich, not doing what Jesus preached.  Republicans are all going to try to take their money with them when they die.  Let's cut taxes for the wealthy and then cut programs to help the poor because the government doesn't have the money.  That's the Republican credo.  These are just a few of the reasons I strongly dislike Republicans.
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No, but the Republican party is sure touting that there is a war on Christianity to polarize certain groups because that will get them put into office.  There are also groups that think the US should be a theocracy but that is blatantly unconstitutional.  Sorry, it's a democracy where all of us have the same rights.
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I would never vote republican. Lying, calling themselves Christians, war profiteering (haliburton), it's all sick. THEY are all sick.
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There IS a cultural war going on between conservative Christians and secularists.  They (the Christian party, mostly Republican) want to put God into everything public!  They do not realize that the Church was given the task of evangelizing the world, NOT the government (State). And they are furious when they do not get their way!
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because most of those type, haven't ever picked up a Bible, much less read one. Insead, they rely on crack induced rhetoric, by people who say the name of God with every political policy and blame everything on the Great Evil Liberal. \nAnything that agrees with them is good, and anything that disagrees, is either evil science, brainwashing liberal education, a non-answer, a socialist conspiracy, or Godless lies.\n\nthey are a sick breed of humans that will ultimately be the people who put the anti-christ in power(if there is such a thing), their own Book says so!\n\nTheir whole belief system is based on zero-tolerance of anything that might change their views, probably nurtured by a drunken abusive parent!
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Many people have mistaken hardcore Fundamentalism for mainstream Christianity in the US. The Fundamentalists are a minority, but they're a very shrill and noisy one, and they get a great deal of media attention. Same with this site. For every rational theological discussion, you'll get ten fanatics cutting and pasting endless King James Bible verses. They're just faster to jump in on a conversation, that's all. Don't worry. America's not a nation of frothing right-wing zealots...yet.\n\nThere's an interesting book called "Stealing Jesus" about the Fundamentalists co-opting Christianity, and what theological newcomers  they are. It's certainly not the only book to make this point. Even the Puritans wouldn't recognize today's Fundmentalist dogma, much less the early Christians. For another interesting perspective, try reading Spong's "Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism".
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Because of Republicans
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Your first premise is absolutely wrong.  Southern Christians traditionally identified with the Democratic Party because the Republicans were the party of Lincoln and reconstruction.  This pretty much held until the democrats started pushing for social justice and racial equality.  Then the more conservative and also racist southern democrats moved to the republican party.\n\nThe Christians for whom abortion, gay marriage, school prayer and teaching creationism are hardly moderates, they are at best conservatives and at worst reactionaries. Jesus had nothing to say about any of those issues.\n\nChristians who focus on Jesus'  primary message as outlined in your last paragraph would be more comfortable as democrats in my opinion.\n\nSomeone doesn't know much about Jesus if they think he forbid anyone to eat pork. Any real christian would know that Jesus established a "New Covenant" superceding the Old Testament and the dietary laws. Jesus was a liberal who preached reaching out to "the least among us" including the poor and the sick.
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Republicans are not evil; conservative Christians are. Maybe now some sanity will return to the GOP.
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Another moral question: Christian Republicans are pro-life, yet pro-war.
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It's really only the fundamentalists in certain religions that believe that kind of foolishness. There are lots of religious people who have progressive, inclusive, and ecumenical understandings of their faith. There are lots of religious people who while devoted to their own faith, respect other faiths as spiritual paths.
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Because they are not able to think issues through for themselves. They are either too lazy or too stupid, I'm not sure which. They simply believe what they are told and repeat what they are told incessantly in the hopes of recruiting more parrots for their cause. Oh yeah, and they drink WAY too much of the Jesus Juice the right-wing "Christians" serve.
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In short, many Christians are Repulicans because Republicans have embraced Christians as a voting power.\n\nThe reasons that most Christians are Republicans are not because of taxes, but because of abortion. In the 60s, there was no "Religious Right." Christian votes were split fairly quickly between parties, and the real divisions were geographic.\n\nIn the 70s, many Christians felt abandoned by the Democratic Party. The "Religious Right" as a voting power did not develop until the early 80s with the founding of the Moral Majority by Jerry Falwell. And it was really only until the 2000 election that they were recognized as a powerhouse and courted by the Republican party.\n\nBasically the Christians started voting Republican not because they felt that the Republicans were inherently better than Democrats, but because Democrats stopped paying attention to them and their interests.\n\nIf and when the Democratic Party actually starts recognizing and courting the Christian vote, which I believe they will no later than 2012, you'll begin to see a real change in the voting patterns of Christians.
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The secularist wish the majority of this land who are Bible believers of some sort would sit down and shut up and quit voting for sure. They want a country like France which has freedom from religion rather that freedom OF religion. The North East of this country is in the majority of this same opinion. In many of our schools girls wearing a head covering is forbidden and most force many fundamentalist to give up their rules about modesty to participate in Physical education classes.\n\n   But then on the other side of the equation any "fundamentalist" do not know that Christmas and Easter celebrations were not national holidays until after the Civil War and most deniominations preached against these papish holidays until then. The holidays  still shouldn't be nationalized  since they promote Roman Catholic Christianity and traditions above true biblical Christianity. Yet Christians are all up at arms about removing, Christmas trees, crosses, or crucifixes, and  Roman Catholic renditions of the ten commandments from public property. The Roman Catholic ten commandments remove the 2nd commandment and split the 10th commandment into 2 commandments to make it ten. Since these monuments are seldom read most don't even know the difference. The one in front of the Nueces County  Sherrif's department in Corpus Christi even has the Papel symbol on it and was put there by the Lion's Club. \n\n   All of this is a violation of the establishment clause of the United States Constitution which says government is not to hinder or promote any religion meaning denominations or sects . Wish I had the funds to challenge these things in the Supreme Court when I was persecuted for not participating in these things in public schools funded by all taxpayers believers and unbelievers alike.\n\n   The right of the individual to celebrate any religion of his choice I applaud even on public property just so my tax dollars are not being used to promote or to persecute anyone for what they believe. Let the teachers decorate thier desk and the students theirs funding it themselvesand let freedom ring! Pass out tracts in the halls as long as it is an individual doing so and not the governments endorsing it! Let the students preach on the sidewalks during breaks from class. Give equal time to all individuals!