The more the Pope walks with Jesus the further he gets from the "Christian Right"

Ricter said:
Laissez Prayer
The secret history of the 1950s Christian right and its zeal for capitalism.
Kim Phillips-Fein
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America By Kevin M. Kruse • Basic Books • 2015 • 384 pages • $29.99
"In October 1938, James Fifield of the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles sent a missive to 70,000 religious leaders across the country. His request was unusual: to rally them in opposition to recent developments in Washington, D.C. “We ministers have special opportunities and special responsibilities in these critical days,” the letter opened. The country, Fifield warned, was headed down the path toward dictatorship, and religious men of the nation had the burden of protecting the “sacredness of individual personalities”—a commitment they shared with the son of God—against the depredations of Franklin D. Roosevelt: “We may be called unpatriotic and accused of ‘selling out,’ but so was Jesus.”

"Not long before writing his letter, Fifield had helped found a group called Spiritual Mobilization, which took as its founding position the idea that ministers had an obligation to check the trend toward “pagan stateism” [sic] represented by the New Deal. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Spiritual Mobilization sought to rally clergymen to fight liberalism, arguing that the only political position compatible with Christianity was laissez-faire. They aimed to counter the ideas—summed up as the Social Gospel—that good Christians might have obligations to help the poor, that there was something spiritually problematic about the love of money, and that working to create a better and more egalitarian social order might be necessary to live a righteous life."

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As a conservative Christian I am in it for the personal salvation only. That "help the poor" crap is for hippies.
 
its all such bullshit to wrap statism up in the idea they doing good for the individuals.
Communist China and the Soviet Union vs capitialism...
which lifted more people out of poverty.


 
Tsing Tao said:
I find it fascinating that people who claim to not follow a religion or belief in God throw it out when it suits them.
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Good points.Good Pope on pro life, profamily. but climate change is a scam; that's why we do NOT blindly follow anyone. That's wisdom, thanks................................
 
how are inner city blacks doing these days? was the last 50 years of govt expansion better for expanding govt or helping out those in the inner cities?

can you answer friedman's questions?
voting for socialism and democrats and establishment republicans is not the same as helping the poor and those in need. Its far from it.

Voting for small govt and individual rights and opportunity with a bit of a safety net is far more caring.

Ricter said:
It's bullshit to claim organized efforts to help those in need is statism.
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jem said:
how are inner city blacks doing these days? was the last 50 years of govt expansion better for expanding govt or helping out those in the inner cities?

can you answer friedman's questions?
voting for socialism and democrats and establishment republicans is not the same as helping the poor and those in need. Its far from it.

Voting for small govt and individual rights and opportunity with a bit of a safety net is far more caring.
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Some here argue our poor have never had it so good, so in that sense inner city "blacks" are doing better than before. But stepping back a bit, 50 years ago we still had Jim Crow laws.
 
who on the planet argues the inner city has it good? their family structure has been destroyed.. gang violence, drugs, incarceration, 20 million abortions? have you passed through some of these areas in daylight hours? would you go near them at night? how's the murder rate in chicago? democrat policies have destroyed generations. Its is truly sad when you think about... yet we have trolls thinking big govt is better for people and voting democrat is more Christ like.

voting for bigger govt is the opposite of compassion its voting for corruption.
 
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The Catholic Church is something else. A fake priesthood inserts themselves between people and Jesus and hides plainly in the open for all the world to see. In order to do this they have to present a lot of false krap and keep their billion or so followers from understanding the Bible which plainly condemns said priesthood! It's little wonder that people like futurecurrents can't find their rational or spiritual ass with both hands considering that the world is run by con artists LOL
 
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