by owenfieldreams 143 Replies latest jw friends
He does not like America, his wife has never been proud of America, he believes that America is filled with ignorant yahoos who stupidly cling to their stupid religion and dangerous guns and hate anyone who isn't like them.
Burn once again cultivating the art of exaggeration. Priceless!
Burn once again cultivating the art of exaggeration. Priceless!
Besides, Jesus was the first proponent of welfare...he divided up the fish and the loaves and handed them out to people that didn't have any food until there was a surplus. He also was a proponent of universal health care with all that healing going on. Those two issues alone should make all the Republicans cut and run, not embrace him! If Jesus was around now trying to help the people like he supposedly did when he was alive, all the Republicans would have raced the Romans to crucify him!
exjdub
Very true. Those republicans you speak of? The ones who claim to be faithful christians but have a$$ attitudes towards the less fortunate? Jesus would have driven them out of the temple. He would have called the whitewashed graves. He would have called them sons of vipers. Basically they just know that some people can be easily snowed and that's just what they did during Bush's campaigns. Very few hang onto that bull caca any longer.
Very true. Those republicans you speak of? The ones who claim to be faithful christians but have a$$ attitudes towards the less fortunate?
How do you explain it then that Republicans tend to give more to charity than Democrats?
http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm
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Very true. Those republicans you speak of? The ones who claim to be faithful christians but have a$$ attitudes towards the less fortunate?How do you explain it then that Republicans tend to give more to charity than Democrats?
http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm
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I'm speaking of specific republicans, not all republicans, with a bad attitude towards the less fortunate. Our president is one of these.
Most of the difference in giving among conservatives and liberals gets back to religion. Religious liberals give nearly as much as religious conservatives, Mr. Brooks found. And secular conservatives are even less generous than secular liberals.from Burn the Ships article.
There is an attitude promoted by certain republicans that people are poor or lower middle class because they are unmotivated and lazy. And yes, many of them do claim to be big christians. The important word here is "claim."
Most of the difference in giving among conservatives and liberals gets back to religion. Religious liberals give nearly as much as religious conservatives, Mr. Brooks found. And secular conservatives are even less generous than secular liberals.from
Somehow the continual link between religion and compassion and superior morality gets twisted so far to one side that people actually believe that someone who doesn't practice any religion, who doesn't belong to a religious group and who doesn't do 'good works' in the name of religion is deficient. As for it being a political issue - that's bunk. Nobody can determine charity in real terms since many of those who don't give publically or who are not counted - donate their time, energy and whatever else they can spare on helping friends, family and neighbours. I know many people who donate clothes, furniture and food to charities and don't ever get counted because they don't ask to be. These people drop money in large sums into the Salvation Army Christmas drives. These same people knit blankets for preemies. I know people who have donated boxes of food and toys to charities but who don't put into the collection plate or give that sealed envelope to the church elders. I know a whole heck of a lot of people who attend services every week, put in their donation as part of their dues but never give beyond that. sammieswife.
There is a definite philosophy to each political party. The reason GW ran as a "compassionate conservative" like it was a different thing from the norm was because it was different from the norm.We see that he didn't mean what he said either. He is not a compassionate conservative. What changed during his reign is that very fundamentalist christians were duped into thinking that you can only be christian and republican, that democrats cannot be christians. The republican party is not known for it's social welfare policies. When you bring up universal health care to a republican, but not all republicans but the majority of them, they will say that they should not be expected to pay for anyone else's healthcare. Or they will ask you "Who's going to pay for it?" But then they don't care that GW is into the trillions on death and destruction in Iraq.
Charity is social rather than political policy.
The republican party is not known for it's social welfare policies.
Which is why I tend to agree with Republicans on certain of these polices.
Charity is and should be a private affair. The government tends to ruin whatever it gets involved in, better to keep it involved in the bare minimum for which there is no substitute.
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