Could a good conservative Christian please answer this?

Question

What would Jesus think about your continued spewing of hatred toward your fellow man, when he asked that you love your neighbor?

bugeyes: Who said I wasn't? Sharpton's no liberal.

pusher: I don't claim to be Christian, so it doesn't really matter.

(It's okay; I don't actually expect any of you to admit anything but perfectly angelic behavior.)

wmcritter: Sounds like projection on your part to me. I don't hate anything but hypocrisy. Christians are great - the REAL Christians, the ones who actually TRY to model their lives after Christ's. I'm referring to the "you're going to hell because God hates fags" Christians. So before you assign emotions to me, perhaps you should use common sense to realize that. No?

butterbar: Again... not a Christian, so it doesn't apply to me.

Answer 1

Republican/ Conservative theme song:

go ahead and hate your neighbor,
go ahead and cheat a friend.
do it in the name of Jesus,
You can justify it in the end......

Answer 2

Jesus never asked anyone to love their neighbor, he commanded it. The New Testament shows several times where Jesus spoke offensively to people--especially the Jewish leaders of the time (Scribes, Pharisees, and Saducees). He was not spewing hate, but trying to get people to repent. I think that anyone who is spewing hatred is not a Christian, since, by definition, a Christian is a disciple of Jesus. Someone may claim to be a Christian, but only when one has been submissive to Jesus' commands will he be one. Will Christians offend people? Yes--sin is an offense to God and when we share what the Bible says to people they will be offended. If people aren't offended, then why would they ever repent? There is only one kind of Christian. A good, conservative Christian is just a Christian. Someone who acts or supports those things unauthorized by Jesus is not a Christian--though they may call themselves one.

Answer 3

Well im not conservative...and im a recovering christian...and what i mean by that is the institution of religion. I believe in God, but not Mans incarnation of him, or Man's Institution of The Church, which i feel is the most evil and Vile institution on the planet. The Church- mormon, catholoic, christian, islam, lutherine whatever all teach hatred and intollerence. They teach people to be sheep at the whips of the demonic horde that lead them - aka The Pope, Bush, Billy Graham, Dr. Laura Sleshinger etc. They follow blindly, and listen to foolish nonsense passed down from man to man over thousands of years, instead of common sense, and real belief in the greater good of humanity, and the truth of the Lord. Anyone who takes the bible at face value is a fool for several reasons. First- the bible was written by MAN and man is flawed. second- the bible has been passed down and translated and re-interepreted over thousands of years, thus its original meaning has been lost. third- the bible is locked up in the vatican, and it is impossible for any one person to view the entire bible durring their life Thus the Vatican can controll what portions of it historians can compair the current bible to the original for accuracy. So moral is What you are reading in the bible isnt even what it said originally, and you take it on blind faith! FOOLS all of you! Man is not the answer, and Preachers are MEN, the pope is a MAN, Pastors are MEN...only when you stop listening to the ramblings of foolish, greedy, self imposed, hypocrytical MEN will you find true salvation. your all sheep on your way to slaughter.

Answer 4

I will do my best to answer your question as sincerely and as honestly as I can. I characterize myself as a Conservative christian, based on my love for God, our country, paying reasonable taxes, working hard, speaking english and obeying the manmade laws of our society, even when I don't necessarily agree with all of them.

Now far be it from me to say I'm a perfect model christian, because I am not. I am human, first and foremost and I make my share of mistakes, like you and everyone else. To me, the true beauty of God, is that like our framers of the constitution, both God and the framers knew when they created our way of being that even though their system was ideally suited to work in perfect concert, they knew we as humans are fallible and would make mistakes along the way.

I am sure it hurts God when we hurt each other, turn against each, reach for attacks instead of common ground, but the beauty of God to me is that he/they know(s) we will make mistakes and he loves us anyway. We will fall down a thousand times and yet he will love us all a thousand times stronger than our flaws.

For you see sir, it's not about the mistakes we make our even the repetition of the same ones, but that we get back on the horse and put our trust in him and keep trying, something that admittedly is not easy for any of us to do, christians or not. It's especially harder when you rely solely on logic and sight as the basis of your belife system in something, anything.

I don't know what happened in your life, but clearly someone hurt you and jaded you towards the possibility of a relationship with God, or perhaps you just looked at the world and didn't see God in it for whatever reason.

All I can say if never say never, because even up to the end, God serves as a beacon of light and hope for us all, no matter what weve done. It's never too late, until it's too late. That's what pulls me through.

I sincerely hope my words offered you some type of inspiration.

Answer 5

While I'm sure there have been some people claiming to be christians spewing hatred, it is no more fair to characterize all Christians to be like that than it would be to characterize all liberals to be like the nuts on this site. http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/

Answer 6

criticism and hate are two different things. liberals have a problem understanding this.

to liberals, a good conservative christian is one who shuts up and condones all the deviant behavior that liberals push. if he doesn't, he is a hateful bigot.

for example, if a conservative christian voices his displeasure with all the filth, smut, profanity, and violence all over the tv, to liberals he is an uptight, judgemental, hateful, "phony" christian who has no respect for "freedom of expression".

Answer 7

what sort of hatred toward my fellow man is going on? I do not hate anyone for what they think or how they act, I do hate the fact that I am being forced to condone or agree with certain actions otherwise becalled a bigot or some other belittling petname from those who say that they are tolerant.

Answer 8

I agree, we shouldn't hate anybody, not even the crazy Muslims.

Which is why I changed my screenname. I don't condone hatred, so it was hypocritical of me to say I did in my name.

However, it is so hard to keep your cool in today's world. We have pure evil lurking in this country, and it seems we aren't doing anything about it.

Answer 9

I don't know why do so many liberals hide behind free speech and then accuse everyone else's speech of being hate speech?

Why do so many liberals condemn speech in this manner or characterize it as mean and hateful and evil while A.they themselves do it way worse , and B. they refuse to even call Socialist/Communist attrocities bad or evil or even condemn the Socialist/Communist numerous holocausts?

How is it liberals can only condemn speech and not acts of terrorism or soclialist/communist attrocities,holocausts and crimes against humanity?

What would Jesus think of them doing THAT?

Or what would Jesus think of liberals hate speech towards Him?

Answer 10

Unlike people (like you) I neither claim to be able to speak for the Lord, nor do I claim the authority to judge others.

However, I will say that He might caution you about the lumber in your own eye...
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You can believe in the Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster for all I care, it doesn't change anything.

Answer 11

Perhaps you should address your own irrational hatred before accusing others. Hate based on religion is just as bad as hate based on skin color. Heal the hate in your own heart before trying to fix others.