Originally posted by Suzianne
As a Christian, I do often think "WWJD?" and that is what defines what is "right" to me.
Corporate globalists trying to shove all the money up to the top 1/10th of 1%, at the direct expense of the other 99.9%, are not very Christian, and yet this seems to be the chief aim of many Republican priorities. And the Republicans are always "the party of the ev ...[text shortened]... t of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." THIS is what the "side of right" means to me.
The biggest issue is the one overlooked or ignored, which is using a square peg in front of the horse.
Essentially, we've mixed up the entire situation.
As Christians, we would scream bloody murder were the government mandating the pulpit's message.
Bloody murder.
Heck, we'd get violent if the tax-exempt status was removed for even the most egregious cases of obvious greed such as Joyce Meyers or others of similar positions.
Despite that line of demarcation inward, we barely think twice in insisting no such line exists outward.
Congress sits (when not lying to stay elected) around daily dreaming of new laws to enact, thus ensuring their relevance.
It's lawmaking via the barber method: just enough to ensure a repeat visit every four weeks or so.
Solon would have destroyed these jackals.
But, in essence, the lot of them are creatively ensuring our absolute need for them by dreaming up and then enacting laws to legislate morality in varying degrees of gray shades.
225 years since the first session and those folks are
still at it today!
So... what are they doing for Christians, exactly?
Why would a Christian give it even a thought, let alone a second one?
It (the government of man) is secular by nature... but we're going to insist it behaves as a theocracy?
Lipstick on a pig will still leave an emphatically pork-like experience.
Short of naming the Lord Jesus Christ as the one true head of our government, literally everything this country does is in opposition to His kingdom.
Render unto the US what is in the image of the US.