They always talk about family values, and prayer, but when it comes to society it is servival of the fittest. What would Jesus say?
2007-03-22 19:53:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I understand your question correctly, I can answer it, but first, I need to claim that I have no allegiance to the Republican Party.
If, by social darwinism, you mean less emphasis on social programs (entitlements), this is because Christians (at least traditional Christians) realize that we as individuals, have an obligation to help those in need. It is NOT the job of government. The proper function of government is the protection of life and property, something that government is doing a pretty poor job of.
When the state sets up entitlement programs, it ends up controlling all of us. Those receiving benefits, and those of us paying for them. This reduces us to three insect-like categories: the workers (taxpayers), the drones (recipients), and the queens (the politicians who demonstrate their generosity with our money).
The Christian ideal is for we as individuals taking care of the needy. The Marxist (New Deal Democrat) theory is for government (the politicians) to spread the wealth (ours, not theirs) so as to keep us all at the same level, while they live like royalty.
By the way, don't confuse Republicans with Christians. Most Republicans today are Neo-Cons, which hardly makes them either Conservative or Christian.
2007-03-22 22:28:22 · answer #1 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just what are "family values?" We get that phrase thrown about a lot in Australia as well.
As far as I can tell, "family values" are only applicable if you are a conformist, nuclear family. I am married (heterosexually even) - I had a civil wedding, only the requisite amount of swearing - and I have parents, in-laws, a brother, and an uncle I look after. Which to me is a fair assumption of a family. Yet because my husband and I decided not to have children, we are not seen as coming under the "family values" umbrella.
And that's before we even begin to talk about the other supposed "values" the term encompasses.
As I see it, Christian Right and Family Values are all-but synonymous terms. Neither, in my opinion, are forces for positive social outcomes.
2007-03-23 03:38:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus would say they had adopted the policies developed by Leo Strauss for the National Socialist Party of Germany in the thirties. The Nazis were a religiously fundamentalist party bent on extreme nationalism. They believed they were the worlds only Superpower and intended world domination for a millenium. The Nazis were also very strong on *positive eugenics* and *moral values*. Moral values is the same as *family values*.
2007-03-23 03:01:11 · answer #3 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in the "Survival of the Fittest" for anything. I do believe in family values, prayer, and anything related. I believe Jesus would agree with both of those things.
2007-03-23 02:57:31 · answer #4 · answered by C J 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you misunderstand the Republican party platform. It is not when it comes to society - survival of the fittest. It is about economic freedom. Taxes are a denial of freedom, because they are in essence the government ordering me on penalty of arrest to spend a certain amount of my money on what they tell me to. (They do me the service of confiscating that money and spending it on said projects on my behalf.)
Republicans who are loyal to the platform believe that the poor should be taken care of through the private help of people who chose to help them; but that to deny others the freedom to spend their money the way they need or want is wrong.
2007-03-23 03:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you 100% and I'm a Christian.
I'm British but the right-wing politicisation of the evangelical churches, which started in the US, has always unnerved and irritated me. I've been fighting a spiritual, mental and emotional battle with them since I was first saved in the days of Reagan, Thatcher, cruise missiles in Europe, the British miners' strike, Nelson Mandela still being in prison and anti-Soviet hysteria (which has now switched to anti-Muslim hysteria).
2007-03-23 03:02:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, you are correct. Many Republican Christians are not conservatives. It is a very big problem. I know what Jesus would say:
Revelation 3:15-18 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
2007-03-23 03:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by Shawn D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are making a few very bold assumptions, none of which are accurate.
Not all Republicans are Christian.
Not all Republicans are social darwinists.
Not even all Capitalist are social darwinists.
Try rephrasing your question as an actual question, instead of as a conglomeration of incorrect assumptions. You may get a real answer.
2007-03-23 03:02:16 · answer #8 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They are the missing link.
You should not be concerned about what Jesus would say to anyone but yourself.
2007-03-23 02:59:15 · answer #9 · answered by Nowpower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think greed like many others, has gotten the best of them... Some democrats as welll, to be fair in answering.
2007-03-23 02:57:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋