How can the Republicans call themselves Christians?
As a person of faith, I believe the moral test of any society is how it treats its poor and most vulnerable.
Our federal budget should reflect our values and priorities. Legislators should consider how their actions will impact the most vulnerable people.
Congress should oppose any budget proposal that increases military spending while cutting programs that benefit the poor, especially children.
We need to support programs that support health care, family nutrition, education and international aid that literally save lives.
Our deficit is also a moral issue, but how we reduce it is also a moral issue.
If Congress is serious about the deficit, then it should cut military spending, corporate subsidies to big business and end corporate tax loopholes, and address long-term costs of health care and Social Security.
Lynn Cline, Goodyear
Leon Ceniceros posted at 11:54 am on Fri, Mar 11, 2011.
Your questions not be directed to a political party but to the so-called....."CHRISTIANS"...who sure don't act....."CHRIST-LIKE".
Did anyone see any ..."CHRIST-IAN CHURCHES"....offering to cover the cost of the..."TRANSPLANT CASES"...that were all over the News a month a go ???
The answer is a big, fat........."N.O......NO"
So please spare us the......"UN-CIVIL DISCOURSE.....NAME CALLING".
Get you own house in order (as the Bible tells us to do) before you start casting stones. Religion is a business...it requires tithes, donations,sharing what ever you call it to build these.............."PRAYER PALACES"...by the thousands all across Arizona and the Southwest. Just look at the $250,000,000 new Los Angeles Queen of the Angels Cathedral run by a Cardinal who moved pedophile priest from one poor parish to another to assault children. Look at the "Colorado City Child Marriages" that were "HANDS OFF" to prosecution. Why was this..."CHILD BRIDE CULT".....declared ...off limits for generation after generation in TWO STATES...what major Religion protected them for so long.
SO ENUF WITH CALLING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ...."ANTI-CHRISTIAN".....WHILE SO-CALLED ..."CHRISTIANS" ...AREN'T THEMSELVES ACTING VERY ....."CHRIST-LIKE".
Dale Whiting posted at 4:04 pm on Thu, Mar 10, 2011.
Lynn,
What Smitty and Rich [and I, too] are saying is that 1) there is a seperation between church and state, even between morality and state, and 2) that the US is not so much Christ like, as it is business like. Christ"s Kingdom was not of this world. Caesar's was. Perhaps Bush 41 put it best. It is the duty of us as undividuals and not as US to be Christlike, to organize and support our own 1,000 Points of Light in serving Christ. We definately are not a Christian Nation. Ultimately we are judged by our Maker as individuals and not as a group.
But, otherwise, your points are well taken!!!!!! What we support and what we terminate ultimately do measure our collective souls.
Rich posted at 3:06 pm on Thu, Mar 10, 2011.
“Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” The problem lately seems to be confusing the two authorities.
EmperorSmith posted at 1:09 pm on Thu, Mar 10, 2011.
I believe Jesus was a Libertarian. He gave all he had and did not ask anything or impose views on them.