Comments on: Voter Registration Effort Seeks to Bring Biblical Change to America

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:46:05 +0000

In reply to Christian Overman. Christian - Click this link for a sampling of where I got my information. Also, see this link. I am very relaxed, hope you are too. I have no problem as I said with voter registration, but I do have a problem with using churches to create a political machine. I can imagine churches torn apart over this. If pastors start endorsing candidates or assuming their members are all religious right voters, then people who see things differently are going to feel alienated in their own churches. It is not the ministry of the church to get candidates elected to office.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:25 +0000

So-called 'bible-believing christianity' does indeed appear very narrow in its scope. I'm not sure that the "Judeo-Christian Tradition" is that narrow - witness the huge array of standpoints within both Christianity and Judaism. A proper appraisal of the "Judeo-Christian Tradition" must lead to us to value above all human life and human dignity, and to work for the common good, accepting the 'given' that the human family is a diverse one (after all, it seems that Jesus does not judge people on the [arbitrary] grounds of their ethnicity or religion, but rather on their qualities as a human person and their behaviour ... see inter alia Matthew 25). It is perhaps no accident that those parts of world that have been most subject to this 'tradition' are those which have stumbled the furthest towards some sort of functioning democracy and 'rule of law'. What I find deeply distressing is that there are so-called 'christians' who want to undo this progress, even to an extent that the Bible (yes - the Bible!) makes perfectly clear is pre-christian (e.g. bringing back Mosaic capital offences), and therefore sub-christian or even anti-christian.

By: Rev Steven Mitchell

Rev Steven Mitchell — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:25 +0000

I continue to fear for the health of America as fundlementalist Christians try to take over our political process in an on going attempt to make this government a Theocracy and do away with Democracy. Please register and vote, especially if you are a person who fears a few trying to control your life in what they feel is in the name of God. The reality they fail to see, is Jesus never advocated his followers to be political. That was one of the problems between him and the Sadducees.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:25 +0000

I’ll take reality over fantasy any day.
What’s with the 66 star, then 60 star American flags?
Lastly, only 60 million Christians in the country? I guess they aren’t counting Catholics, Mormons, and a few other groups.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:24 +0000

Personally, I think this group is a bigger danger to any politician that aligns with them than with to the US. the whole “we have to take back america for christ” routine may play well with the conservative base, but it is doing to scare off the moderates and independent voters.

By: Jim Guinnessey

Jim Guinnessey — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:24 +0000

God deliver us all from these religious fanatics parading as good Christians when they are in reality venomous snakes no better than Islamist fanatics who would force their warped beliefs on America.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:24 +0000

The whole schtich about what the Founding Fathers believed is so appalling when you actual review our history from the late colonial to post-Constitution era. I am in a very stimulating discussion with a friend who has political savvy about the affects of the Scottish Enlightenment and the principle of “Natural Religion” in the shaping of our national documents. As many of us do know, these men had a sense of the Divine but not in the narrow rubrics of a “Judeo-Christian Tradition”.

By: Christian Overman

Christian Overman — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:51:42 +0000

You say, “The danger in this group is that they seek to impose a return to something that never was. They seek to make the church into a political machine.”
Really? Where did you get that information? That is simply too big of a leap from the quotes you provide. Sounds like evangelphobia to me. Relax. This is what makes America Amercia.

By: Gus

Gus — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:03:18 +0000

Which Biblical worldview? The Old or New Testament?
My favorite line in political letters to the editor is, “Christians believe…” Christians can’t even agree on how to recite The Lord’s Prayer, but somehow Christians ALL have the same opinion on taxes, healthcare, foreign policy, etc. LOL

By: Gus

Gus — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:03:18 +0000