God is a Republican?

// September 3rd, 2009 // My Thoughts

Over the past 2000 some odd years Christians have always been an eccentric group but I have to admit, I think we got dumber once we got to America.  It seems the longer we stay in America the dumber we get!  God is not a Republican People!    This may offend you or make you think differently about me but I have some news for you.  God is Pro Choice.  He is the original Pro Choice supporter.  He decided to allow you to make ANY choice!  you can choose to kill, or heal, or love, or hate, or steal or deal, or make or break, you can fly or flunk or vote or hope but the choice is yours and yours alone! (sounds a little Dr Seuss eh?) My point is … that the freedom to do good or bad is unquestionably given to us by God, our countries leaders knew that. But somewhere somebody decided that it was our jobs as Christians to be the moral police for the USA… NOT OUR JOB!   Do you honestly think that God intended to create the world, give everyone the freedom to choose right or wrong and then let YOU decide what they could and couldn’t do so that your religious panties would not get bunched up?  Why do  you think that Jesus ALWAYS rebuked the pharasees?  They were religious zealots that sought to control the population with laws that were never intended by God.  Look I love all these great christian leaders that keep telling you that we need to prevent same sex marriage, abortion, etc.. etc… but the fact is that they are incredibly short sighted.  It has been  proven over and over you cannot legislate morality!  The world will do what they want, and we as Christians should be there to pick up the pieces for them.  Look at prohibition,  abortion, homosexuality, same sex marriage,   every time those issues are subjected to intense scrutiny and outrage by well meaning “christian” activists, it only serves to alienate that group of people from Christians even further.   I would bet $1000 dollars that you take a few fishermen and start protesting their fishing as evil and ungodly and those previously harmless fishermen will become pitchfork bearing villagers bent on eradicating every christian in sight.

So before you get up on your conservative high horse and begin railing on me for being a liberal, or a democrat, or a heretic or whatever, hear me out.

I think that everyone should have the right to do what they like… just like God Created us. This works fine… the world takes care of these things naturally… they don’t want to bother with religion. i.e.  you kill someone you will probably end up dead or in jail-pretty much happens all over the world. The thing is you get religion involved with making laws… and you end up with “King James” you know… the guy that created a Church State and killed people for not attending the State Churches?  This is the same Guy we ran away from to America and decided that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”  It wasn’t the state that was the problem in the first place… it was religion all along.

Religious zealots killed Jesus
Religious zealots started the bloody crusades
Religious zealots persecuted protestants
Religious zealots have alienated homosexuals
Religious zealots are unreasonable
Religious zealots are unmerciful
Religious zealots are intolerant of anything except what they believe
Religious zealots bomb abortion clinics

So when you get all excited and worked up and angry about how all of these groups are attacking your morals and fundamental beleifs remember… we fired the first shots in this war… and God never authorized the war.

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4 Responses to “God is a Republican?”

  1. Greg R says:
    September 3, 2009 at 9:58 am

    whoa, brutha, what did YOU have for breakfast….it was either hot and highly caffeinated or cold and highly caffeinated….I won’t tell your Mormon fan-boys, I swear….

    thanks for stirring the pot on this one. I liked the last line the best “God never authorized the war…” and I think that’s the reality that many ev’s are slowly waking up to: the Kingdom of GOD is the trump card in this whole thing, and HELLO, the Kingdom is ‘trans-national” or perhaps “super-national”. The covenental promises were to Abraham and promised ‘every tribe . tongue, people, and nation….’. God is very possessive like that.

    let me know if Bill O’Reilly, or more likely Sean Hannity, is storming your gates.

    His Kingdom comes…..all other kingdoms: not so much…
    Greg R

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  2. Greg R says:
    September 3, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Christians should never be surprised at the shocking condition of our world, our nation or our fellow man. Romans 1 describes it very, very well. No gay agenda, no public display of sin, no media venture into the dark side of unrighteousness ought to surprise us. We may weep as Jesus wept, or turn over tables as he did, but it should never be out of shock or political anger. This is a world that is daily demonstrating the wrath of God on the unrighteousness of men who have kicked out their Creator and exchanged His glory for garbage. For two thousand years, the Bible has described this world. The evidence we see and read day by day doesn’t make it more shocking or true.

    It is very easy to lose our perspective in such a world, because that perspective must come to us through the faithful unfolding of the scriptures, which is a very rare gift in the unfaithful church of this culture. We must be renewed “day by day” in a focused vision of God and in an appreciation of His Kingdom’s optimism, mission and triumph. This takes discipline and passionate devotion in the Christian life, and it is a rare thing. There is a temptation to buy into other agendas that seem more possible from a human point of view; agendas that we can bring about through our anger, emotions and efforts. These agendas often have much to commend them, but these are, at their best, only marginally related to the Great Kingdom priorities of the Bible.

    “Conservatism” as a cultural movement has much that Christians can affirm, but we must admit the dangers of identifying ourselves with this movement as “Conservative Christians.” This particularly brings weakness, I believe, to the very discussion of cultural issues that often occurs in our culture. Our views on homosexuality, abortion and the family are not political. They are Biblical, and all Christians who submit to Christ ought to affirm the Bible and what it says. If the Bible does not make itself clear, or make an issue a priority, then we ought not to make that issue a priority of our efforts and energy.

    that’s from an I-Monk archive….I think it’s called “why I’m not a conservative christian” or something like that

    Greg R

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  3. Timesobserver says:
    September 3, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Good post. I don’t think God would ever be a Republican or Democrat.

    But I think it would have helped us out a lot if God came down to Earth in 2000 (when many people thought we would go back in to the Dark Ages) and gave us a revised update of the Bible and what He meant in the Bible.

    Boy, that would probably make a lot of Christians and atheists angry.

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  4. Greg R says:
    September 4, 2009 at 11:38 am

    I can understand your point, but as Mark Twain observed (not sure where exactly) “It’s not the parts of the bible that I don’t understand that bother me….it’s the parts I do….”

    pretty honest for a non-churchy kind of guy

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