So when the Dems weighed in on Faith, Arainna Huffington?

Question

Made a comment the Bible is 80% on poverty...hmm what Bible is that? So if there going to quote Jesus in how he said Give to the Poor is that going to be thier reason for raising the hardworking americans taxes through the roof? Yes Jesus did come to the Poor, to give them hope and to ask people to give from there hearts, but I assume the demmies are going to spin Jesus's message that people do not have to be responsible at all and because Jesus said so, and the government should let them wallow...

I am a christian and I do give to other's in need from my heart not by force...

Maybe they should realize Jesus's message was one of forgiveness, hope for al who sin, and to have a giving heart by loving GOD not the Government. He also did NOT say by the way forget about the Ten Commandments they are no longer valid.
Thoughts?

Answer 1

I believe our government should use our money to run the government and not give it to losers who don't want to work and have children for a living.

There are ways to support people who need the help without giving them cash in hand. Many peope take advantage of the system and it needs to be improved.

I think we should all pay a flat income tax, not graduated income tax and we should be able to give to charity as we see fit. I think healthcare should be privatized and so should retirement. S.S.I. is a big joke and so is our public healthcare system. The illegals in this country get better healthcare (for free), than do our own people who get turned away. I say, that's not spending my tax money the right way. Our government takes, takes, takes, and wastes, wastes, wastes! And I am sick, sick, sick of it!

Answer 2

Holy cow did you get that backwards.

Her point was NOT to leave the poor wallowing. Her point was that the bible denigrates wealth and urges you to help the poor. Yet the GOP's focus is on wealth and letting big business have no oversight while eliminating insurance and health care for the poor and for children.

Unbelievable.

The clergy had to get rich people interested in xianity so they would join and donate money. So they had to kind of change the whole "Give away everything you own and join me" that Jesus urged. Now xians have this idea that earthly success is somehow godly. Congratulations, you are officially brainwashed into this idea.

Answer 3

There is one thing I know about ManLaw anything Men say are null and void after 7 days. Hence why the ten commandments are no longer valid. Jesus was a man above anything else.

Answer 4

So where do you hide when they read where JESUS said blessed are the peacemakers for THEY will inherit the kingdom of God

Democrats=peacemaker
Republicans = warmonger

The only reason you are republican is most likely the abortion issue. Forget the lies they told to get all of ourt soldiers killed
or the deficit they have created AND your grandchildren will pay for

Answer 5

If the Founders had intended this to be a Christian Republic, they would not have separated Church and State in the constitution. Besides, many of the founders were Deists or atheists, not Christians; it would have been impossible for them to intend a Christian Republic.

The First Amendment states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…"
Article VI, Section 3 of the constitution also states:
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States, and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
By now virtually everyone knows the argument that making the United States a Christian republic would violate the First Amendment rights of Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, atheists, agnostics, etc. But fewer people realize that it would also violate the First Amendment rights of Christians as well. Which of the 2,500 Christian denominations would we choose as the Christian orthodoxy upon which to base the republic? Seventh-day Adventists and Catholics are complete opposites to each other, and, in fact, are sworn enemies. Thus, a Christian Republic would certainly involve a small minority forcing its views on the majority.

Be that as it may, did the Founders actually intend for Christianity to play a greater role in our society than it has? Prior to the constitution, 11 of 13 states had religious qualifications for public office. These were limited to Christians only, and sometimes even Protestants only. However, the Constitutional Convention voted down such qualifications, creating the separation of church and state that we find in the First Amendment today. If this is not proof of the Founders intentions, then what is?

One should remember that the Founders lived in the 18th century, just as the horrors of the Inquisition were winding down. Anyone who overly opposed the Roman Catholic Church was arrested by the Inquisition as a heretic. They were tortured until they confessed their guilt, then handed over to the state for execution. The state, in full partnership with the church, would then prove its loyalty by carrying out the execution. Those Founders who were Christians were Protestants, and had they lived in Europe they would have been persecuted by the Inquisition. It was this identification with "heretics" that compelled them to build "a wall of separation between Church and State."

This famous phrase was coined by Thomas Jefferson in his letter to the Danbury Baptists:
"Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." -- Thomas Jefferson to Danbury Baptists, 1802.
Some Christians have tried to argue that this wall is "one-way," that the state may not interfere with religion, but religion may interfere with the state. However, this is an impossibility, since by definition any control that a denomination achieves over the state will automatically become state infringement on the religious rights of others.

Besides, many of the Founders were hardly Christians. There were several Deists, most prominent among them Thomas Jefferson. Deism rejected formal or organized religion, including Christianity; it taught that people should depend on human reasoning, not revealed truths, to discern what is true in the world. Deism rejected the divinity of Jesus and ascribed his miracles and resurrection to "mysticisms, fancies and falsehoods" (Jefferson's words).

Another standout is Benjamin Franklin. The body of his work strongly suggests that he was an atheist. Like most atheist politicians since, Franklin was not so impolitic as to broadcast this fact. He sometimes evoked Providence or God in his speeches, ever mindful of his Christian audiences. But anyone familiar with Franklin's writings knows of his true philosophy towards religion.

Thus, the fact that not all the Founders were Christians, and that they actually removed a widespread Christian qualification for office in the U.S. constitution, proves that the Founders did not intend this to be a Christian republic.

Answer 6

those who hate the bible and christians (majority I've seen on YA),have never read the bible.Many will claim the bible is bogus and then quote verses way out of context to make a point.They should read and study the bible before they mock and misquote it.Jesus rebuked those that misrepresented God's word.
Christians should help the poor.
Christian are to warn the lost.

Answer 7

Jesus had more than one message and Huffington's neither a Democratic official or nor an elected representative. She was a lifelong Republican until just a few years ago.

Answer 8

Why are we talking about your invisible, alknowing buddy in the politics section? If George Bush would have said that Thor wants him to be president, why is that dumb but god wants him to be president is ok?

Why do we look to a poorly written collection of tribal nonsense to tell us how to be decent to one another? Why can't we just be good people?

Answer 9

We must have been watching two different shows Monday night. I listened very carefully to what was being said and I did not hear anything like what you are saying. Could it be your conception of things was colored because you don't like Democrats?

Answer 10

PLEASE do no quote huffington,she changes her mind almost daily on every issue.Whatever will get her name in the news,but you are correct.Telling people what do think is the lowest form of policy.I always thought politicians were suppose to enforce what "we" the people thought and felt.