Why are so many Christians Conservative? You realize Jesus was liberal and as far to the left as he could get?

Question

being a conservative Christian is like an outright contradiction. Bill O Reilly said it best. Conservatives like the country the way it is and dont want radical change (unless its something like abolishing porn). But liberals want radical social change. Guess who else wanted radical social change? Jesus!

Answer 1

A multitude of people completely avoid Christ's political side, and that's ridiculous.

Now, I don't agree with trying to define him by today's political standards (it was more than 2000 years ago).

That said, anyone who says Jesus was not a political figure needs to do a little more studying or switch churches.

BUT - those on the right who claim that their vote is more righteous and run around with their holier-than-thou attitudes are annoying.

Answer 2

Really! Jesus was the most righteous person who ever lived, that is why He is the Messiah. Sure He wanted social changes, but not the changes you want and what so many other many liberals want, by distorting what is right and what is good. Christ was not a hypocrite nor is he seeking for a political seat of any kind. He is more of the spiritual kind and of saving souls.

Answer 3

Why are soo many Christians conservatives? Because conservatives refuse to learn the definition of the term "liberalism" which is:

liberalism: A political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy [freedom] of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties.

So when you are anti-liberal this is what you're saying:

anti-liberalism: An ideology based on no belief in progress, the essential evil of the human race, the enslavement of the individual and standing for no protection of political and civil liberties.

PLEASE don't give me this garbage that all "liberals" support abortion. That's a flat out LIE. What's even a bigger lie is that Bush and his religious supporters think they are the saviors of the world because they don't support abortion yet they support the deaths of THOUSANDS of fully grown civilian casualties in the Middle East as long as you can say it's all in the good name of stopping terrorism. Jesus wanted us to love each other not create wars. He told us to LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, but you'll NEVER see conservative Christians capable of this type of unconditional love. You'll more likely see conservative Christians out on the streets for a military parade with their American flags flapping while they chant "support our troops!" Too bad they're not out chanting "support Jesus" because God knows this is one time in history that their conservative Christian-ism is working against all of us.

Answer 4

Your right man, and these Christian Conservatives who believe the Bible is inerrant and take it literally, complain about "liberal commies", when the Bible has several passages which advocate socialist ideas, like

All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
(Acts 2:44-45)
or
This is what the Lord has commanded: Gather of it, every man of you, as much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number of persons who each of you has in his tent. And the people of Israel did so; they gathered some more, some less. But when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat
(Ex. 16:16-18) (THis sounds an awful lot like Marx's famous quote, "from each according to his need, to each according to his ability")
or
There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. There was a Levite, a native of Cyprus, Joseph, to whom the apostles gave the name Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”). He sold a field that belonged to him, then brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
(Acts 4:34-37)

Answer 5

Jesus was perfect enough to be anything he wanted to be...

No other human being is perfect enough to make liberalism work.

Plenty of Christian Conservative people practice the "Love your neighbor..."

Jesus also said to "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature..." Are you libs down with that?

Answer 6

Let me perhaps help you with some comprehension that you are apparently unable to make.

Jesus Christ is the correct term, since Jesus was a man, just like yourself, and this is the reason you would assume that he would be like yourself. But the Christ consciousness raised the man to a God-Man, and thus, Christ was no longer the carpenter Jesus, but the Word made flesh.

As God on Earth, working through the body of Jesus, it was God that was doing and speaking. Christ, or the God-realized Soul that was known as Christ, did not come into the world, like Buddha, to effect "social change" as you put it. Christ came into the world to initiate certain Souls who were "ready" to begin their departure process from the illusion.

Christ was not a socialist Communist wannabe, He was God, and He spoke to those for whom he came into the world in terms they could understand... but only those who were "ready" could "hear" the Spiritual Esoteric of which he spoke. The others, like yourself, could only hear with their physical ears, and could only comprehend with their brains, as you do.

Jesus Christ, and Christ being the operative term, came from and pointed to a Reality that exists other than on the physical plane of existence. Only those "ready" to "hear" the Esoteric Reality of which he alluded to, but could not speak of directly because there are no words for such Esoteric Reality... other than the abstract term "Esoteric"... which "stands for" a Reality that cannot be seen or realized through physical means.

Bill O'Reilly is not a Saint, nor even capable of perceiving the Esoteric, so I would not use him as an authority in trying to make your in-congruent connection. The more Spiritually oriented Christians are conservative because they are not filled with fear as are the Liberal-Type Personalities. Those "Christians" who call for social change have either forgotten whose Creation this is, or they never knew that it is God's Creation, not Mans.

God could never call forth a Soul that is more attached to fear than to God simply because attachment to fear is a delusional activity brought about by ones Karma, and only when one has been able to pay off ones Karma substantially, having experientially replaced it with Knowledge of Reality, could one be "ready" to be called by God. Such a person would have become a conservative via his/her accumulation of Knowledge over lifetimes prior to becoming "ready" to be called by God.

The Liberal-Type Personality is to be pitied, but like a dangerous and poisonous snake, never trusted to other than an agent of the dark side of Man.

Peace

Answer 7

So are you saying all Jewish people are Conservative because they don't believe in Jesus either..lol. I think Jesus does not care what political party you belong to, he loves us all the same.

Answer 8

He was a religious figure not a political lone. Yes. he sis care for the plight of the everyone though as a liberal would.

Answer 9

That is right and the cons are going to slam you right now. Don't worry they only have half a brain. Jesus wanted everybody to love each other and help the poor and hated violence.

Answer 10

Actually Jesus was aristocracy, not democratic.
Lord Jesus
King of Kings