A call for Christians to leave the Democrat Party

[Jen]

Bishop Earl Jackson is a Harvard Law graduate that served in the Marines. He was practicing attorney in Boston for 15 years. During his time in Boston, he served as chaplain for the Boston Red Sox for 5 years and as a Protestant chaplain for the Boston fire department. He was involved with The Samaritan Project to help churches that had been damaged by arson.

His call for Christians to leave the Democrat Party is one that Christians who are Democrats should take to heart. This is how Jackson stated it:

In his plea for Christians to make an exodus from the Democratic Party, Jackson refers to the Party as cult-like and cites the following reasons for his statement and actions:

• Pro-abortion
• Rejection of biblical family model and values
• Open hostility to anyone who expresses their Christian values including Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A and Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas
• Actions taken against cities and towns for displaying crosses at memorials
• Actions taken against anyone who invokes the name of Jesus during prayers at official events

Jackson expressed his disappointment in the way journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams with Salon.com wrote about Gabby Douglas’s tribute to God. Williams wrote:


“I’ve often wondered what it is about Christians like Douglas that unnerves me so … Douglas and her ilk seem to espouse a faith based on what is commonly referred to as ‘The God of Parking Spaces.’”


When the Democratic Party officially endorsed same-sex marriage, Jackson said:


“They will be saying, ‘We don’t care what you think, what you believe, or what the Bible or the God of the Bible says. We know better than God.’”


This has led him send the following message to all Christians in America:


“The Democrat Party has turned its back on Christians. It is time to turn our backs on the Democrat Party.”

I have wondered for a long time how Democrat Christians could deal with some of the root Democrat beliefs.
They don't match up at all with a Christian life.

 

[Days]

We are in the world but not of the world... that includes the Republican political party also.

 

[Jen]

We are in the world but not of the world... that includes the Republican political party also.

This specific call was for them to leave the Democrat Party.

I am independent (small "i") but I don't see anything in the Republican Party that directly contradicts Christian beliefs like many things in the Democrat Party do.

 

[Sunset Rose]

Bishop Earl Jackson is a Harvard Law graduate that served in the Marines. He was practicing attorney in Boston for 15 years. During his time in Boston, he served as chaplain for the Boston Red Sox for 5 years and as a Protestant chaplain for the Boston fire department. He was involved with The Samaritan Project to help churches that had been damaged by arson.

His call for Christians to leave the Democrat Party is one that Christians who are Democrats should take to heart. This is how Jackson stated it:

In his plea for Christians to make an exodus from the Democratic Party, Jackson refers to the Party as cult-like and cites the following reasons for his statement and actions:

• Pro-abortion
• Rejection of biblical family model and values
• Open hostility to anyone who expresses their Christian values including Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A and Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas
• Actions taken against cities and towns for displaying crosses at memorials
• Actions taken against anyone who invokes the name of Jesus during prayers at official events

Jackson expressed his disappointment in the way journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams with Salon.com wrote about Gabby Douglas’s tribute to God. Williams wrote:


“I’ve often wondered what it is about Christians like Douglas that unnerves me so … Douglas and her ilk seem to espouse a faith based on what is commonly referred to as ‘The God of Parking Spaces.’”


When the Democratic Party officially endorsed same-sex marriage, Jackson said:


“They will be saying, ‘We don’t care what you think, what you believe, or what the Bible or the God of the Bible says. We know better than God.’”


This has led him send the following message to all Christians in America:


“The Democrat Party has turned its back on Christians. It is time to turn our backs on the Democrat Party.”

I have wondered for a long time how Democrat Christians could deal with some of the root Democrat beliefs.
They don't match up at all with a Christian life.

If we went strictly by the Bible, we probably wouldn't participate in politics at all, Jen. Remember when Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world?
Also, the Democrats are the ones who passed the civil rights bills in the 1960's. (After some arm twisting by LBJ) So I kinda like them for that.

 

[Jen]

If we went strictly by the Bible, we probably wouldn't participate in politics at all, Jen. Remember when Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world?
Also, the Democrats are the ones who passed the civil rights bills in the 1960's. (After some arm twisting by LBJ) So I kinda like them for that.

Both parties have done both good and bad things. I am independent (small "i") because there are deal breakers with both parties for me. I won't belong to a party that advocates abortion. I won't belong to a party that takes us to war to "spread democracy".

I disagree about participating in politics. I believe we need to combat evil whenever and wherever we can. That said, I don't vote for someone because I hope they will make the USA a Theocracy. That, as you said, is not where God's Kingdom is.

 

[Constitutional Sheepdog]

If we went strictly by the Bible, we probably wouldn't participate in politics at all, Jen. Remember when Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world?
Also, the Democrats are the ones who passed the civil rights bills in the 1960's. (After some arm twisting by LBJ) So I kinda like them for that.

Didn't the democrats boo God at the last DNC?

 

[RickWA]

If we went strictly by the Bible, we probably wouldn't participate in politics at all, Jen. Remember when Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world?
Also, the Democrats are the ones who passed the civil rights bills in the 1960's. (After some arm twisting by LBJ) So I kinda like them for that.

Incorrect. The Republican Party in Congress certainly did more to move along the Civil Rights Act than did the Democrats. You have that precisely backwards.

In any case, I do agree that the Christian ought not be overly defined by politics left or right. Above all, when faith and politics come into direct conflict, the tenets of faith should trump politics. All too often, we see the opposite.

 

[Days]

This specific call was for them to leave the Democrat Party.

I am independent (small "i") but I don't see anything in the Republican Party that directly contradicts Christian beliefs like many things in the Democrat Party do.

I love those rose colored glasses, where did you buy them? gotta get me a pair.

No, the world is still the world, which ever political party.

compare these two corporal structures:

the body politic
vs
the body of Christ

the first is on earth, the 2nd is in heaven

 

[Jen]

Didn't the democrats boo God at the last DNC?

Yes. They did.
Another reason I would never be Democrat.

 

[RickWA]

Yes. They did.
Another reason I would never be Democrat.

That's actually true - they did. I'd love to see some Christians who happen to be Democrats comment on that, but I have yet to read such posts. Perhaps that's another example of politics trumping faith?

 

[Jen]

That's actually true - they did. I'd love to see some Christians who happen to be Democrats comment on that, but I have yet to read such posts. Perhaps that's another example of politics trumping faith?

I am pretty sure it is politics trumping faith.

 

[Deleted member 21794]

Bishop Earl Jackson is a Harvard Law graduate that served in the Marines. He was practicing attorney in Boston for 15 years. During his time in Boston, he served as chaplain for the Boston Red Sox for 5 years and as a Protestant chaplain for the Boston fire department. He was involved with The Samaritan Project to help churches that had been damaged by arson.

His call for Christians to leave the Democrat Party is one that Christians who are Democrats should take to heart. This is how Jackson stated it:

In his plea for Christians to make an exodus from the Democratic Party, Jackson refers to the Party as cult-like and cites the following reasons for his statement and actions:

• Pro-abortion
• Rejection of biblical family model and values
• Open hostility to anyone who expresses their Christian values including Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A and Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas
• Actions taken against cities and towns for displaying crosses at memorials
• Actions taken against anyone who invokes the name of Jesus during prayers at official events

Jackson expressed his disappointment in the way journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams with Salon.com wrote about Gabby Douglas’s tribute to God. Williams wrote:


“I’ve often wondered what it is about Christians like Douglas that unnerves me so … Douglas and her ilk seem to espouse a faith based on what is commonly referred to as ‘The God of Parking Spaces.’”


When the Democratic Party officially endorsed same-sex marriage, Jackson said:


“They will be saying, ‘We don’t care what you think, what you believe, or what the Bible or the God of the Bible says. We know better than God.’”


This has led him send the following message to all Christians in America:


“The Democrat Party has turned its back on Christians. It is time to turn our backs on the Democrat Party.”

I have wondered for a long time how Democrat Christians could deal with some of the root Democrat beliefs.
They don't match up at all with a Christian life.

I don't see how it's possible to be a Christian and a Democrat.

 

[Jen]

I don't see how it's possible to be a Christian and a Democrat.

Democrats are Secular in every way. They weren't that way in the past, but they are now and some Christians who have always been Democrat haven't noticed or don't care or ............are just nominal Christians (Christians in name only) in the first place.
So I don't see how it's possible either.

 

[Dawg]

Does this remind anyone other than me of EVE and what happened after she took control of Adam:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...mp-helps/ar-BBu9AYT?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartandhp

Women are not voting for Killary for any other reason than because she is a woman, are they eating the apple and we already the outcome of doing that.

 

[Stardust]

Bishop Earl Jackson is a Harvard Law graduate that served in the Marines. He was practicing attorney in Boston for 15 years. During his time in Boston, he served as chaplain for the Boston Red Sox for 5 years and as a Protestant chaplain for the Boston fire department. He was involved with The Samaritan Project to help churches that had been damaged by arson.

His call for Christians to leave the Democrat Party is one that Christians who are Democrats should take to heart. This is how Jackson stated it:

In his plea for Christians to make an exodus from the Democratic Party, Jackson refers to the Party as cult-like and cites the following reasons for his statement and actions:

• Pro-abortion
• Rejection of biblical family model and values
• Open hostility to anyone who expresses their Christian values including Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A and Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas
• Actions taken against cities and towns for displaying crosses at memorials
• Actions taken against anyone who invokes the name of Jesus during prayers at official events

Jackson expressed his disappointment in the way journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams with Salon.com wrote about Gabby Douglas’s tribute to God. Williams wrote:


“I’ve often wondered what it is about Christians like Douglas that unnerves me so … Douglas and her ilk seem to espouse a faith based on what is commonly referred to as ‘The God of Parking Spaces.’”


When the Democratic Party officially endorsed same-sex marriage, Jackson said:


“They will be saying, ‘We don’t care what you think, what you believe, or what the Bible or the God of the Bible says. We know better than God.’”


This has led him send the following message to all Christians in America:


“The Democrat Party has turned its back on Christians. It is time to turn our backs on the Democrat Party.”

I have wondered for a long time how Democrat Christians could deal with some of the root Democrat beliefs.
They don't match up at all with a Christian life.

I agree that the Democratic party has gone to war with Christianity and I believe the main reason is that it doesn't bode well with their economic agenda, which is to give all good paying jobs to other countries where their rich international handlers can control world wealth by controlling energy production and food production. Black Power in America has a huge stake in the entertainment industry and the organized crime industries so naturally they want to push low pay and high drug and prostitution sales. Jesus is beating them on all fronts. Big agribusiness is suffering huge production losses, diseases like Zika and water borne diseases from water pollution are increasing 10 fold with massive flooding events. Its only a matter of time now when "every knee shall bend" to God and Jesus Christ. People who have made themselves enemies of Christianity will soon lose power and their evil schemes thereafter will be fraught with failure. The bible says Christ will rule with a "Rod of iron", so their horrible behavior toward family life, monogamy, protection for our children against hard drug pushing, pornography pushing and the like is about to take a rod of iron beating!

 

[Jen]

I agree that the Democratic party has gone to war with Christianity and I believe the main reason is that it doesn't bode well with their economic agenda, which is to give all good paying jobs to other countries where their rich international handlers can control world wealth by controlling energy production and food production. Black Power in America has a huge stake in the entertainment industry and the organized crime industries so naturally they want to push low pay and high drug and prostitution sales. Jesus is beating them on all fronts. Big agribusiness is suffering huge production losses, diseases like Zika and water borne diseases from water pollution are increasing 10 fold with massive flooding events. Its only a matter of time now when "every knee shall bend" to God and Jesus Christ. People who have made themselves enemies of Christianity will soon lose power and their evil schemes thereafter will be fraught with failure. The bible says Christ will rule with a "Rod of iron", so their horrible behavior toward family life, monogamy, protection for our children against hard drug pushing, pornography pushing and the like is about to take a rod of iron beating!

I don't wish horrible retribution for anyone. It would be better if they could just come to their senses in time. When I posted this same post on another Liberal forum, I got a response that said "Hail Satan".

 

[Stardust]

I don't wish horrible retribution for anyone. It would be better if they could just come to their senses in time. When I posted this same post on another Liberal forum, I got a response that said "Hail Satan".

I apologize if my post sounded harsh but I also don't question God's judgement and I find comfort in it because all I have to do is think about the "horrible" cruelty that is inflicted on victims of their evil schemes. God really is slow to anger and full of love and patience. But many who are separated from God have been so for decades, if not centuries or even a millenia. The bible also tells us that God punishes those that he loves. God's forgiveness does not come without punishment. Like any good parent, punishment is warranted, especially if misbehavior is especially aggregous and especially if they have committed horrible hurtful acts to others. So if God does not punish them I guess it means that they are so wicked that they have removed themselves from God entirely and their is no hope for reconciliation.

 

[Capitalist]

If we went strictly by the Bible, we probably wouldn't participate in politics at all, Jen.

Would that be such a terrible thing? 1 Samuel 8:

The Governance of the King. 10 Samuel delivered the message of the Lord in full to those who were asking him for a king. 11 He told them: “The governance of the king who will rule you will be as follows: He will take your sons and assign them to his chariots and horses, and they will run before his chariot. 12 He will appoint from among them his commanders of thousands and of hundreds. He will make them do his plowing and harvesting and produce his weapons of war and chariotry. 13 He will use your daughters as perfumers, cooks, and bakers. 14 He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his servants. 15 He will tithe your crops and grape harvests to give to his officials and his servants. 16 He will take your male and female slaves, as well as your best oxen and donkeys, and use them to do his work. 17 He will also tithe your flocks. As for you, you will become his slaves. 18 On that day you will cry out because of the king whom you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”​

Also, the Democrats are the ones who passed the civil rights bills in the 1960's. (After some arm twisting by LBJ) So I kinda like them for that.

That Civil Rights Bill was STARTED by who?

Ike Eisenhower. And opposed by democrats. You should be despising democrats for being opportunists and ultimately racist.

https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/civil_rights_act.html

Thank you ladies and gentlemen, and good night!

 

[Sunset Rose]

Would that be such a terrible thing? 1 Samuel 8:

The Governance of the King. 10 Samuel delivered the message of the Lord in full to those who were asking him for a king. 11 He told them: “The governance of the king who will rule you will be as follows: He will take your sons and assign them to his chariots and horses, and they will run before his chariot. 12 He will appoint from among them his commanders of thousands and of hundreds. He will make them do his plowing and harvesting and produce his weapons of war and chariotry. 13 He will use your daughters as perfumers, cooks, and bakers. 14 He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his servants. 15 He will tithe your crops and grape harvests to give to his officials and his servants. 16 He will take your male and female slaves, as well as your best oxen and donkeys, and use them to do his work. 17 He will also tithe your flocks. As for you, you will become his slaves. 18 On that day you will cry out because of the king whom you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”​

That Civil Rights Bill was STARTED by who?

Ike Eisenhower. And opposed by democrats. You should be despising democrats for being opportunists and ultimately racist.

https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/civil_rights_act.html

Thank you ladies and gentlemen, and good night!

I do not despise anyone. Actually, most of the racist Democrats are now in the Republican Party. LBJ said after he signed the civil rights bill, "I just handed over the Democratic Party to the Republicans for the next 50 years".
It's been even more than 50 years. But he had the right idea.

 

[IndependentinWis]

This specific call was for them to leave the Democrat Party.

I am independent (small "i") but I don't see anything in the Republican Party that directly contradicts Christian beliefs like many things in the Democrat Party do.

Oh yes, Christ called for stop helping the poor because they are just lazy. That is what the GOP says about the poor. Can't give them help or help them get health insurance, they aren't the poor that Christ talked about be blessed. The GOP party is the opposite of any thing Christ like. And by the way, God made LGBT people the way they are, so if you hate them you hate Christ. I am so sick of people trying to say one party or the other has God on their side. Sounds like every war ever fought. God seemed to always be on both sides.