To Christians, how many of you would consider your political and social values to be conservative?

Answer 1

I was never conservative even when I WAS a Christian.

Answer 2

I guess in some ways I am 'conservative' I believe abortion is wrong... however I get irritated by government and politics because many social issues are ignored... perhaps this is largely impacted by the media too. I guess I would be considered republican or conservative in my opinions about global warming and all of the save the environment worries, because I am not concerned about that sort of thing at all. I find it amazing that there are animal rights organizations that protest poaching of elephants in Africa but very few organizations that protest what the Sudanese government is allowing the 'devil on horseback' to do to their citizens. It's shocking that there is not more being done to stop the LRA from terrorizing the people of Acholiland. The media by and large allows such humanitarian crisis's to go unseen. In fact I had never heard about the LRA until I saw a screening of the Invisible Children: Rough Cut, and the numbers of children who have been abducted by the LRA in the past twenty years is utterly horrifying, and even more so because no one knows about it.

Answer 3

I'm not the most Christian person in the world, but I know a lot about politics and most Christians vote for Republicans because of their pro life and anti gay marriage views. I believe most Catholics used to vote Democrat because they tend to be liberal on most issues and conservative on others, but the Democratic support of abortion caused many Catholics to give up their support of the Democratic party, so they now primarily vote Republican. Despite all of this, there are always exceptions. I have a friend who knows everything about the bible and his mother is a preacher. Both his parents and he, however, are democrats. You might even say his father is a communist.

Answer 4

If the definitions of terms like "Liberal" and "Conservative" are understood correctly, they will be seen as extreme opposites on a four sided graph, the other two opposing sides being Authoritarian and Libertarian. The Christian view is neither far to the right (neo-conservative) nor far to the left (communist). Despite the importance Christianity places on God's Law which is very Authoritarian, it places equal importance on mankind's freedom to err, or choose wrong - a very Libertarian concept.

Being a Christian, I try to conform to this example - being Authoritarian in regards to God's Law, and Libertarian in regards to man's. I am neither left nor right leaning.

Answer 5

I think I'm a fairly conservative thinking person on most social issues. The only issue where I tend to go the other way is tobacco. I believe its best to keep it out of the public has much as possible so I support smoking bans in public places.

Answer 6

Some of my values tend to be conservative, but many tend to be quite liberal. Jesus was not about politics and many of his social teachings would be considered extremely liberal today. His teachings about the poor inheriting the kingdom of heaven, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the imprisoned and so on. To lump everything in black and white means that you may be ignoring some of Christ's teachings.

Answer 7

conservative with a small "c".
My values both politically and socially are conservative in nature, but not ultra-right. the extremists of the left and right are identical individuals playing in different arenas.
You go far enough left, you''ll come around to the right.

Answer 8

Which Christian values are you talking approximately? Vox Populi Christian values, in all probability republicans. They get the time-honored public of the Christian vote. something dealing noticeably with Jesus' doctrine of economic fairness, peace, loving thy neighbor, and so on. for sure the democrats, yet they go away plenty to be needed there. One might think of the god of the old testomony might deeply relish the management of republicans. the different problem with extracting any cohesive fee device from the textual content cloth is it could no longer make up it is very own concepts. The bible is so rife with contradictions, it must be Romney's working mate.

Answer 9

Good question. . .one for which I don't have a hard-and-fast answer. In some areas, I tend to be conservative, but not in all things.

I try to see things from a lot of different perspectives, so that's why I'm not as conservative as a lot of my fellow Christians.

Answer 10

It's a moral thing. As liberals tend in an immoral direction moralists (like Christians) will tend to go in the opposite direction.