Why do conservative Christian churches spend more time and energy?

Question

working against things like abortion or gay marriage than feeding the hungry or helping eliminate poverty?

Yes, I should have said some conservative churches. However, the two or three largest in my area are very active in anti-abortion, and constantly are having rallies to "save marriage."

Answer 1

Excellent question. I think that faith has been taken over by an egotistical and tyrannical attempt to morally police humanity.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has written a book entitled "Failing America's Faithful:How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way", which basically asks the same question and attempts to remind people that Jesus' message has been lost among today's "Christian Right".

Should be a good read. http://www.amazon.com/Failing-Americas-Faithful-Churches-Politics/dp/0446577154

Answer 2

Good question--probably because they are conserving themselves instead of pouring out the Goodness of Christ we are called to do freely. Let's get on the right agenda. Afterall, all have sinned and fall waaayyyy short of God's glory. We're simply one beggar telling another where to find bread and forgiveness.

Having said that, it is important that we are free to bring up our children in envirnonment that is conducive to Godly loving and living since he does condemn homosexuality (Romans 1:20-21) as a sin as well as a number of other lifestyles. I do believe we lose our youth to Satan's playground as Christians stand idly by not doing or saying anything to legislators, administrators, at council meetings, etc. I really do not want the homosexual agenda to win over our innocent youth. Innocence can never be recovered and there is a chilling disregard for this innocence in our culture. We'll close our eyes to all the perversions abounding on TV, movies, and even in text books just to be "tolerant". I do not believe tolerance is a very high moral. It's not really embracing the soul and loving them. Confrontation is better love. As Proverbs states, "Better is open rebuke than hidden love." I believe that is the appropriate exegesis of that verse as well.

Answer 3

hmmmm...the 'stereotype fairy' has been busy waving her magic wand of hyperbole in your neighborhood...don't fall for the media hype...fact is, MOST, if not ALL, conservative Christian churches are involved with feeding the hungry, health care for the poor and elderly, fixing up run-down homes, providing firewood for the rural poor, working in soup kitchens, working with habitat for humanity and other groups, offering affordable, often free, daycare...visiting those locked away in prison, assembling and shipping care packages to our troops worldwide-virtually every church i know was involved in katrina and rita relief...the difference is, whenever an outspoken anti-abortion or anti-gay group starts picketing or whatever, that's news, and it is translated in the minds of the intellectually feeble as 'ALL Christians' or 'those fundies'...but the good works for humanity that conservative Christians do go largely unnoticed-most churches prefer it that way-it's not about the headline or the publicity or the image-it's about doing God's work and not letting the right hand know what the left hand is doing-ever wonder about that phrase? it's a biblical imperative! i can tell you that in all the years i have been associated with conservative Christian churches, we never spent a dime of money, nor used any of our time and energy on anti-abortion or anti-gay activities...and that's well over 3 decades in conservative Baptist churches

Answer 4

You assume that we don't do all of that.

Besides, sin is the biggest problem facing humanity. Issues like hunger and poverty are symptoms of sin which is the illness.

Answer 5

Why do you spend time on here asking these questions when you can be out feeding the hungry and elimating poverty?

don't ask a question you can't answer.

Answer 6

I asked this question before! (I'll post it when I find it.)

Actually, it was a series of four. Q #3 is the most like yours.

Answer 7

Because they don't like poor people much. Poor people are often Black. Many of them are Hispanic or of some other ethnic background. A lot of them vote democratic. Some of them even believe in science.

Answer 8

Or fighting the use of condoms, both to protect from AIDS and avoid killing women with overbearing.

Answer 9

They get more satisfaction finger pointing than helping their fellow man--Christ described religious bigots like them as "hypocrites & vipers".

Answer 10

they worry more about "put Christ back in Christmas" (never mind that it was always a pagan holiday) than about "put Christ back in Christianity."

they worry more about "do unto others" than the words that follow.