this is an iold article but in this time and place just as relevant as it was then.
No one in American life today proclaims their allegiance to Christ more conspicuously than those who have rejected most of what Christ actually taught: Republicans. The modern Republican Party’s hell-bent embodiment of nearly everything Christ warned against has become so serious that we have to call it out. You cannot be a Republican and a Christian.
Of course, it wasn’t always this way. There was a time, maybe even as recently as the early 1990s, when to support the Republican Party was not altogether evil. And further back, of course, things were even more different. As Garrison Keillor once reminisced, Republicans used to be:
moderate, business-minded civic boosters and unapologetic patriots who were the linchpins and bulwarks of small towns across the Midwest, the enthusiastic backers of projects for the civic good, usually in partnership with the town liberals (the librarian, the bar owner, a lawyer or two, the Methodist minister, the banker’s wife). These Republicans were uniters and diehard optimists and persons of compassionate conscience, inveterate doers of good deeds.
Even today, there are probably some Republicans who still fit that description. The problem is that they are for all practical purposes invisible in American public life, and if their party found out about them, they would be hounded out of it. If they dared to compete in the lunatic talent show of Republican primary politics, they wouldn’t stand a chance.
The reason that you cannot be a Republican and a Christian is that today’s Republican Party doesn’t appear to stand for anything but what Christ strenuously rejected, like organized violence, self-righteous division, and greed. To say the least, this is hard to square with Christ’s teachings and example. I am not a Christian, and I’m certainly no Biblical scholar, but you don’t have to be. It’s not hard to tell the difference between who is and isn’t really a Christian, and Republicans, you’re not.
• In Christ, we’re talking about someone who said turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:39) and that all those who take the sword will perish with the sword (Matthew 26:52).
• We’re talking about someone who warned “judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1) and urged people not to look for a mote in someone else’s eye while they have a beam stuck in their own (Matthew 7:3).
• We’re talking about someone who said, “woe unto you that are rich!” (Luke 6:24) and, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:25) Did Jesus ever have anything good to say about people who hoard wealth?i've been talking about this very thing recently especially about evangelicals and their worship of something other than God and that the very things they do are in contradiction with Jesus's teachings, even though i know it to be true it's nice to see like minds with greater reach expressing the same sentiment. i can't believe all are so gullible they can't see that what they believe and what is being taught by the Christian right,
btw if there were no difference why is there a distinction of Christiandom, evangelical, Christian right, liberal Christian like various religions we have different factions of one. peoples beliefs are the most powerful tool that charlatans can use against them for their own advancing of their agenda. usurping the word, get them to trust and believe than you own them and like G W Bush said, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on",
while that was in play for your souls there was another right wing republican agenda to control your mind and your political view and who you should vote for. check out link below. a hiouse built of cards runs the risk of being blown aay at any moment especially when one opens the door!!!!!!
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/the-rise-of-the-christian-left-in-america/278086/
http://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-secret-nixon+era-blueprint-for-fox-news
