Is there a relationship between the weakness of the left, and Christianty?

Question

As a conservative, I laugh at other religious conservatives who dont get this point. The people who hate the "evangelicals", the journalists who bash the "Christian-right", the people who defend the Jihadists with anti-Christian vitrol...are all LEFTIST CHRISTIANS!

Thats a fact. Atheists and Agnostics, unfortunately, make-up the tiniest fraction of our country.

Is there a relationship between the weakness of the left and Christianty? Doesnt Christianty make "loving the enemy" the highest virtue? Doesnt Christianty uphold the "meek" as the most favored, the inheritors of all?

If you read the beattidues, it appears Jesus is talking about leftists, or the hoplessly weak portions of your culture. The people unable to cope with the apparent Godless reality of life.

Whose interests are served by making the beattidues a mainstream doctrine of morality? Who are the people selling this very same morality with supposed "religion free" labeling?

Answer 1

Only if you consider mercy, meekness, peace-making and a desire for justice weaknesses.

"Whose interests are served by making the beattitudes a mainstream doctine of morality?" Everyones, it seems to me. What kind of society would we live in if everyone was merciful, meek, peaceful and valued goodness and righteousness over all other things? What the heck kind of society do we live in now? Where has our whole "survival of the fittest" mentality brought us? To an over-populated, polluted, disease-ridden, crime-infested, war-filled planet? Is this the best humanity is capable of? If this is, then I'd say we'd better blow ourselves up now, and give some other species a chance to inherit the earth. Maybe the lemurs can run things better than we do. Maybe the birds will be able to live in harmony with their neighbors and the planet.

Answer 2

A third of Scientology is answering that question (with the idea it's not a belief, but experienced data - for quite some this may be correct). The other two thirds are about relation between the spiritual being (the I, to make it short) and the mind, and between the spiritual being and the body. It's not a triangle, but a line with two ends - one end the I, the other end the body, the line in between the mind as an interface between the two. Or: the I is the source of intention and the final recipient of perception, the mind encodes and decodes, the body exerts and intakes. Or: the mind is the operating system and applications, the body the hardware, the I the end-user. Belief: One can learn and practise to better understand the mind and then make better use of it and the body. This for short. To really get what they teach and learn, you've got to read it, leaving aside the pros and contras who / which only install confusion. Advice: Reading is interesting and often enlighting and not dangerous at all, if one doesn't get involved into group participation (wether the pro sect nor the contra sect).

Answer 3

I am not sure what point you are trying to make. You are a conservative, but not religious. And you think you are in the minority because most Americans are conservative Christians, or leftist Christians. And you think that "leftist Christians" support the Jihadists because of Jesus apparently talking about the "leftists" in the beatitudes- the leftists that you say are "hopelessly weak" and "unable to cope with the 'apparent' Godless reality of life." What, exactly, is your point here? To bash Christianity, which you obviously think you know about but don't? Or you just want to say that the "meek" that Jesus talks about inheriting the earth are Jihadists and the "hopelessly weak in our [American] culture"? Maybe you should clarify, because you are not making much sense. Don't try to wrap your brain around what only the heart understands (Christianity), and stop accusing liberal political thinkers of being terrorist sympathizers. If you were saying that politicians should not claim to be Christians only to make policies that contradict the teachings of Jesus- I can agree with that. But your tone is condescending toward the teachings of Jesus, and you seem to want to draw some parallel between Jesus and the Jihadists- that is just ludicrous.

Answer 4

You sound like someone that comes from a nation with a strong religious belief system that dictates/biases your thoughts and beliefs. Good for you, if that's your bag--do it to it. Prophesize your views however you like, just don't think you'll be able to do so because your religious assumptions allow you to.
Here in the States, (where you may even reside) you can be that way too-- Freedom of Religion. Unfortunately, things aren't so cut and dry as you propose.

I could care less about religion, mine--yours--or any one else's. The number of Americans who practice a religion and try to force it upon others is a minute number of our population. I neither support them or condone them. They have theirs--I have mine. As far as I can tell, religion does more harm than good when you consider all the Wars fought over it. So if your trying to justify some kind of theory we haved based on the fact that were some sort of religious people your vastly mistaken. If you can't get over the fact that we can get by without religious practices--I'd say your thinking is too narrowminded to even begin to grasp the essence of what we do or are trying to do.
Sure there is a Left and Right, but where is your explanation for what the Middle believes?
Trying to equate world events with what they mean through religious doctrines is like trying to make pizza out of a chunk of beef--
I think you'd be better off discovering your own truths about the left then believing the falsehoods of others.

Answer 5

actually, i think you'd find a lot of democrats are either just NOT southern baptist or they are deist... either way you have failed to realize that the left doesn't hate the right.. no, we pity them for being bigots and hypocrites.. if you screw up fine.. but don't screw up then try and tell me you are better than me... it's just a waste of air. and as far as "If you read" this that or the other.. you said it yourself with "appears" .. the Bible is about interpretation.. which is why we have so many varied religions that have sprang forth from Catholicism. The many ways and interpretations of a single verse in the Bible could be debated until the end of time.. and no one would have a provable answer until death itself took them... so save yourself a self-righteous headache and move on to something more productive.

Answer 6

Uh,no.
America is LOADED with Agnostics and Atheists,its just that the majority of people who keep tabs on such data spin it to mean "85% Xtian"(O'Reilley) and such.Disbelief itself is forever widespread in this Scientific age.

Uh,yeah.
There is a Godless reality of Life.Christianity is "weak Left".
As a social liberal I want a "secular progressive" outlook.I think America would be better if,instead of say,abstinence-only sex ed,teenage boys could get their virginity broken with a beautiful 30 year old woman.

Problem is,as is with the hateful "rightist" christians,those liberal bashers are in fact stuck up prudes themselves.

But dont worry.The porn industry is bigger than mainstream Hollywood.At least someone out there has "normal" reactions to sex,etc.

The religion thing per se is soaked with interests in money and justifying bigotries.Yep,a lot of them ARE nuts.

We need a Secular Right.

Answer 7

Well I take issue with the your employment of the term weakness. It is not weakness to refrain from using violence; to restrain your baser instincts for revenge. To me such a form of self-restraint is the hallmark of strength. The beatitudes wonderfully call us to bring into submission all our compulsions that could violate the sanctity of life, even if that endeavor works against our own self-interests. Now if by weakness you are referring to the fact that the left, as of late cannot get the political clout it desires because it is actually trying to adhere to Christian principles that the right only pays lip service to, then yes in that sense the left is political weak because of Christianity. However, if that is weakness, the world certainly needs more of it.

Answer 8

Zone failures are non existent. It's all pretty much malfunctioning toward a seizure. Sorry. I like accurate assessments.

Answer 9

I think you are wrong! Right wing Christians have zero compassion for anyone, including fellow Christians. If you want to live in a theocratic Christian state, then look to some middle eastern states that try to have theocratic Muslim governments. Theocratic Christian governments would be no different.

Answer 10

Well I didn't read your whole question. The only real reasons for the weakness of the left is a pronounced lack of logic, reason, and facts. Anything else is irrelevant to me.