Comments on: The GOP’s “God Problem,” Part Two

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By: tonka

tonka — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:38:10 +0000

evangelicals need to stop calling themselves christians, cuz there is nothing christ-like about them.

By: terra byte

terra byte — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:34:04 +0000

everyone has a right to life until after they are born. after that all bets are off.

By: nikolai

nikolai — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:48:11 +0000

Jeremy and Mike, just say “Crusade” and kill Muslims and other brown-skinned people (no whites) and all’s well with money rolling into the defense industries keeping them and the Pentagon flush with CASH!
Oh, and it helps if they have some oil (or other valuable commodity) too!

The murderers and thieves who own and run America are doing to other countries what their ancestors did in America to the Native Americans… Find a population of innocent, relatively defenseless people and murder, rape and pillage their society, steal their lands and resources, then call it “patriotism” and call the natives “bloodthirsty savages” or, “terrorist Muslim fanatics.”

There, now wasn’t that easy?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:00:02 +0000

Jeromy, that’s an easy one. All you do is to re-interpret the bible and there you go. Now, your bible doesn’t say, “Thou shalt not kill” but instead says “Thou shalt not murder”. And, as easy as that, you’re cool with war.

By: ExiledIndependent

ExiledIndependent — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:55:22 +0000

A conservative revival (sorry for the pun) is only going to work if it is based on great ideas and policies that elevate the nation. It’s clear that the “average” American is still culturally conservative in may respects (see Prop 8, Justin’s recent post on the Pledge of Allegiance, etc.), so cultural conservativism in and of itself isn’t going to lose an election. But a lack of ideas, a lack of vision, a lack of a strategy to make America and Americans better tomorrow than they were yesterday certainly will (and did).

By: Steve S.

Steve S. — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:31:28 +0000

Great article.

I’ve seen the blindness to diversity that you’re talking about – along with genuinine surprise when they learn that other people can believe completely different things from themselves. It’s sad, but if this is what it takes for those people (regardless of WHICH faith) to at least accept others, then so be it.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:20:32 +0000

Death to God. If you don’t want me to say that religion is a fraud, then don’t try to make me live by it. I can live a good and ethical life without having to believe there is a magical man in the sky.

By: Jeremy from Oregon

Jeremy from Oregon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:23:16 +0000

What’s so offensive about the GOP is that it assumes the GOP is “God’s party.” But as this current administration has shown us, the Grand Ol’ Party is full of human beings that are just as sinful as their liberal counterpart.

What I don’t get is how the supposed conservative Christian always tends to support war. What part of Thous shalt not kill don’t they understand?