Right-Wing Politics is Driving People Away From Church

[SoccerMom]

Grand Wizard David Duke was elected to public office as a Republican.

Then ask him.

 

[Caroljo]

Grand Wizard David Duke was elected to public office as a Republican.

He was originally a democrat. He ran for President in 1988 as a democrat. When that didn't work he ran as a Populist. When all else failed he ran as a Republican. That doesn't mean he was Republican.

 

[EatTheRich]

Then ask him.

Here’s what he says:

“When the Klan was founded there was not electricity. They could not light up a cross the way we light up a Christmas tree. Fire was used. The fire was used to symbolize the fiery light of Christ – a metaphor often used in the Bible. The Cross obviously is a symbol of Christianity. The Cross lighting ceremony gives honor to Jesus Christ.”

 

[EatTheRich]

He was originally a democrat. He ran for President in 1988 as a democrat. When that didn't work he ran as a Populist. When all else failed he ran as a Republican. That doesn't mean he was Republican.

It means he wasn’t always a Republican. But it’s in that party he found his political home.

 

[ObamacareForever]

When was last time you attended church and witnessed absent church goers?

Easter.

 

[Old Ridge Runner]

That makes no sense, Trump openly admires dictators who are far more repressive.

Says who?

 

[Caroljo]

It means he wasn’t always a Republican. But it’s in that party he found his political home.

No, It means he was a democrat first, when he could get nowhere there because nobody wanted him he ran as a Republican to see if he could get what he wanted that way. Nobody wanted him. He was a democrat in republican clothing....period.

 

[SoccerMom]

Here’s what he says:

“When the Klan was founded there was not electricity. They could not light up a cross the way we light up a Christmas tree. Fire was used. The fire was used to symbolize the fiery light of Christ – a metaphor often used in the Bible. The Cross obviously is a symbol of Christianity. The Cross lighting ceremony gives honor to Jesus Christ.”

Quote source?

 

[EatTheRich]

Says who?

Trump!

 

[EatTheRich]

Quote source?

https://kkk.bz/frequently-asked-questions/

 

[Old Ridge Runner]

Trump!

I don't think so.

 

[EatTheRich]

I don't think so.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/02/politics/donald-trump-dictators-kim-jong-un-vladimir-putin/index.html

 

[Old Ridge Runner]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/02/politics/donald-trump-dictators-kim-jong-un-vladimir-putin/index.html

he's just being polite, you know, the catching more flies with honey, IMO you are reading into these articles thinks that just aren't there.

 

[voyager]

"Christians"... lol

 

[Phat Mama]

who support harming children and running Trump concentration camps.

You mean the 'detention camps' that started under Obama.

Dang, some of you people are a hoot!

Thanks for the laugh!!!!

YouCantHandleDaTruth

Can't handle the truth

or

he would have attempted to debate me

rather than

down vote my pov.

I sincerely hope he doesn't speak for the lib community.

 

[Phat Mama]

"Christians"... lol

lol!

It's OK!

Christ died on the cross for your sins.

 

[voyager]

Christ died on the cross for your sins.

As it turned out he made a hell of a mistake on mankind. But if it makes You feel better spend the rest of your days praying for me.

 

[justoffal]

Interesting read...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-christian-right-is-helping-drive-liberals-away-from-religion/?yptr=yahoo

"But when two sociologists, Michael Hout and Claude Fischer, began to look at possible explanations for why so many Americans were suddenly becoming secular, those conventional reasons couldn’t explain why religious affiliation started to fall in the mid-1990s. Demographic and generational shifts also couldn’t fully account for why liberals and moderates were leaving in larger numbers than conservatives. In a paper published in 2002, they offered a new theory: Distaste for the Christian right’s involvement with politics was prompting some left-leaning Americans to walk away from religion.

It was a simple but compelling explanation. For one thing, the timing made sense. In the 1990s, white evangelical Protestants were becoming more politically powerful and visible within conservative politics. As white evangelical Protestants became an increasingly important constituency for the GOP, the Christian conservative political agenda — focused primarily on issues of sexual morality, including opposition to gay marriage and abortion — became an integral part of the the party’s pitch to voters, but it was still framed as part of an existential struggle to protect the country’s religious foundation from incursions by the secular left. Hout and Fischer argued that the Christian right hadn’t just roused religious voters from their political slumber — left-leaning people with weaker religious ties also started opting out of religion because they disliked Christian conservatives’ social agenda."

I don't feel bad the churches. they made they choices, now they can live with the consequences.

Society at large is becoming more secular. The very same complaints are coming from the Muslim clerics here in the US who bemoan the Americanization of their adherents.

JO

 

[Phat Mama]

I thought you didn't like divisiveness. Churches have become too political. Which is driving people away from them.

You're FOS

If you vaguely had an inkley on how churches operate, 'political' wouldn't apply.

 

[Phat Mama]

As it turned out he made a hell of a mistake on mankind. But if it makes You feel better spend the rest of your days praying for me.

LOL!


Your loss, not mine.


I will pray for you regardless.