Alan Harper's Tash
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“Thou shalt covert thy neighbour’s pussy and grab them by it.”
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That's as evasive as Trump's not being able to quote a favourite bible verse.
Quite pathetic really to assert something then be unable even to put up any evidence (let alone an argument).
See, even your post and Pudge's unknowingly answer the question:
It speaks to the hypocrisy of those who believe something is a sin and still prertake in it.
The other side doesn't even consider it a sin to start with.
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That’s nonsense. They just don’t take it literally.
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Just Googled religious groups according to political affiliation. Here's just the Christian groups:
Catholic: 44% / 37% in favour of Dems
Mainline Protestant: 44% / 40% in favour of Reps
Black Protestant: 80% / 10% in favour of Dems
Orthadox Christian: 44% / 34% in favour of Dems
Jehovah's Witness: 18% / 7% in favour of Dems (but 75% no affiliation)
Evangelical Protestant: 56% / 28% in favour of Reps
Mormon: 70% / 19% in favour of Reps
Of course every non-Christian religion is overwhelmingly Democrat as well. Republicans are more likely to claim to be religious, claim that religion is important in their life, and claim to attend a religious service every week (although Christopher Hitchens had the line that if you added up the number of people who claimed to go to church once a week, there wouldn't be enough room in all the churches to fit them in).
When we talk about religion in politics, what we're not actually talking about is belief, but the desire or willingness to use politics to impose that belief on everyone else. Considering religion a private, personal thing does not make you less religious than someone who relishes any opportunity to bang on about it and use it to tell you how to vote.
I'm not sure you've disagreed with me. Or put differently, I agree with you.
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Kind of. The extremist Y’allQueda pick off certain aspects of Christianity and shout from the rooftops that they are the biggest Christians in the world.
Whereas the other side pick off other aspects of Christianity, including inclusion, but do it quietly.
All Christians (and humans) are hypocrites to some degree. Some shout about it more than others. It doesn’t make them more of a Christian though.
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Those Christian Trump supporting people eh? What are they like?
www.theguardian.com
Pastor and ex-Trump adviser resigns after admitting to child sexual abuse
Robert Morris resigns from Texas church after admitting to sexually abusing girl in the 1980s, starting when she was 12
www.theguardian.com
I think good liberal people view it this way. Practicing Christians don't. For the record, 'tolerance' is a Christian ethic, "inclusion" is not.
I take your point on hypocrisy. But believing all the precepts of Christianity, even if you fall short of upholding them, is exactly what makes you a Christian.
But pretending it changes with the winds of new age understanding, is exactly what is not a Christian.
The Y'allQueda types you make fun of who talk to Jesus daily and understand all things through that prism... Yes, those are the Christians!