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Originally Posted by Dreamz19
I'm a Christian and I couldn't agree with this statement more. The hypocrisy of these
so called Christian republicans embarrasses me just about everytime they open their mouths up about it.
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I have often said that I think Christ would be horrified at what has been done in His name. I know I am and I hardly am Christ.
In the end and to quote John 3:16-17
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
17 "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Regardless of anyone's belief in this event, the fact that any father would send his son to be sacrificed to save a certain people is, at the least, a stunning metaphor. Yet, all the R's can do is distort that and all but completely ignore Jesus' teachings of forgiveness and peace. Instead, they cherry pick things and use them to judge and hurt people who are already the least amongst us. It sickens me. What sickens me more is people are being turned off of faith of any kind, not just my own. Again, it has become even more of the "if you want to fill your pew, preach hate" kind of world. How is that Christlike?
On edit - another example of this faction of so called Christians raising the persecution flag when religion is taken out of govt, but the right to practice religion on your own is untouched, was when Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore placement (in the dark of night like he had something to hide) a 2.6-ton granite monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of Alabama's state judicial building. He used public funds for this monument and made no bones about his reasons for putting it there - he incorrectly equated the decalogue with American law (only two or so are actually against the law) - and he incorrectly stated them at that. When a Federal Court correctly ruled this violated the First Amendment's establishment clause andordered its immediate removal, Moore responded:
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"It is a sad day in our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge,"
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The far Christian right echoed that response by arguing that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of the U.S. legal system (an incorrect argument - see the Magna Carta) and that forbidding the acknowledgment of the Judeo-Christian God violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free exercise of religion (another incorrect argument in that the right to worship privately was untouched).
Judge Moore clearly placed the monument there as a fu*k you to anyone who was not a Christian - how dare they come into the Christian land and expect any rights. Any other interpretation of this event clearly is ridiculous. Then, he had the effrontery to suggest that the Federal Govt. was somehow denying his right to worship God by ordering the monument removed. That makes no sense because he has the same right to worship his god in private whether that monument is there or not. Why does he need the Fed or state Governments to validate his religion. Is he that insecure in his religion?
Yet, a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll found 77 percent of the 1,009 Americans interviewed disapproved of U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson's order to remove the monument. That people need government validation of religion that overwhelmingly both baffles and horrifies me. Are people that brainwashed so that they think that if the govt. does not validate their religion, there is something wrong or that their right to worship privately is in any way diminished?