Comments on: Voter Registration Effort Seeks to Bring Biblical Change to America https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/22/voter-registration-effort-seeks-to-bring-biblical-change-to-america/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 22:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/22/voter-registration-effort-seeks-to-bring-biblical-change-to-america/#comment-95145 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:46:05 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10257#comment-95145 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: Lynn David https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/22/voter-registration-effort-seeks-to-bring-biblical-change-to-america/#comment-95036 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:25 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10257#comment-95036 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: Rev Steven Mitchell https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/22/voter-registration-effort-seeks-to-bring-biblical-change-to-america/#comment-95037 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:25 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10257#comment-95037 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: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/22/voter-registration-effort-seeks-to-bring-biblical-change-to-america/#comment-95039 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:25 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10257#comment-95039 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: Ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/22/voter-registration-effort-seeks-to-bring-biblical-change-to-america/#comment-95034 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:34:24 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10257#comment-95034 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.

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