Thoughts of a liberal Christian
When you think of Christian you think Conservative/Republicans right? In most cases, you would be right however I am one of the few Christians who are liberal. I was raised by parents who are also liberal Christians from New York. I know, I'm sure you think most liberals are against religion at least Conservatives think that. Well, I don't know how many of my fellow liberals are against religion or how many liberals left organize church (which is a problem for the church) but according to pewforum.com not many liberals are Christian. The highest age group of liberal Christians is the ages of 30-49 (my age group) with 35 percent. The next highest is 50-64 with 27 percent. Again not good. Here's the link:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/christians/christian/political-ideology/liberal/
I admit I when to Sunday School (I went to Public School Monday-Friday if you're wondering) and that church I was raised at was leaning Conservative. I remember two events for this. 1. I remember I told the class (Sunday School) I did support Bill Clinton and the teacher said that Clinton supported abortion or as she and others like her call it murder. Then I joined the youth group (Sunday School was K-8th grade) and during the 2000 election I was giving a paper of Gore's 21 lies and I will admit, seeing that I think I would have voted for Bush If I was able to vote during that time though not enough to scare me from being a Democrat when I voted. Yet I still went to that church into my 20's and now I go to another church. However, I will admit it has a lasting effect where I AM AGAINST ABORTIONS. Sorry to say but with the expectations of incest, rape, endangerment of the mom, and Zika Virus I'm against abortion. However, I do not support these anti-abortion laws states have signed. I do not feel people should be forced into decisions one way or another. Also, I will not support the possible overturned for Roe v. Wade.
When did the Evangelicals become Conservatives, around the time of the 1980 Presidental election where they turned on one of their own (Jimmy Carter) and supported a guy who was an actor and had a divorce (Ronald Reagan). Unsure if that was because the Republican courted the Evangelicals better than the Dems or the fact the FCC in 1979 under Carter open an investigation against Jim Bakker on raising funds and using them on personal expanses and Heritage USA. Bakker called it a witch hunt and rallied his supporters against the government. The Investigation ended in 1982 under Reagan (What a surprise HAHAHA). Since that Evangelicals have been on the Republicans side. I'm surprised by this especially with those who claimed read the bible every day. Let's just said that the bible is for helping the poor and less fortunate and to put it nicely less sympathetic to the rich. I don't think all rich people are terrible but I said a good number of them are. I don't think Christian teaching would support Reaganomics, among other GOP beliefs that Evangelicals seems to supports. Also, they're against Abortion but for the Death Penalty, does that like sense? I admit again I AM FOR THE DEATH PENALTY BUT FOR LIMITED USE. I do believe some animals do deserve to be slaughter but again a limited use and the prosecutors better be 100 percent sure and have concrete evidence that they got the right suspect. Plus I hear that it's cheaper to lock someone up for life than to put them on Death Row. Now let's get them supporting Trump. It doesn't make much sense, evangelicals had a buffet of candidates like Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Raul Paul, among others and they chose a thrice married, foul-mouthed, tit judge (Thanks to Sam Bee) who probably doesn't go to Sunday mass or mass in general in Trump. Then they blame Hillary for Bill's wrongdoing and gave Trump a pass on his extra-marital affairs plus they more than likely supported the impeachment of Bill over 20 years ago. It sickens like to see these post on Facebook of Trump being called the most Christian President ever. Child please. The only reason (or one of the main ones) is because Trump gives them a right to be bullies, great lesson to teach their kids. Another thing about the anti-abortion laws, what happened to the separation of Church and State? Isn't that on the Constitution? Plus Evangelicals whined about the government forcing them to decisions against their beliefs however Conservatives took power and now they're forcing people their beliefs on them. Hypocritical no? I know, I'm one of the last people to tell people how to believe, what to believe, etc. but I wished they were more honest of why they're for Republicans and Trump and also wished they understand that not all Americans are Christian and that are Christians like me who liberal.
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/christians/christian/political-ideology/liberal/
I admit I when to Sunday School (I went to Public School Monday-Friday if you're wondering) and that church I was raised at was leaning Conservative. I remember two events for this. 1. I remember I told the class (Sunday School) I did support Bill Clinton and the teacher said that Clinton supported abortion or as she and others like her call it murder. Then I joined the youth group (Sunday School was K-8th grade) and during the 2000 election I was giving a paper of Gore's 21 lies and I will admit, seeing that I think I would have voted for Bush If I was able to vote during that time though not enough to scare me from being a Democrat when I voted. Yet I still went to that church into my 20's and now I go to another church. However, I will admit it has a lasting effect where I AM AGAINST ABORTIONS. Sorry to say but with the expectations of incest, rape, endangerment of the mom, and Zika Virus I'm against abortion. However, I do not support these anti-abortion laws states have signed. I do not feel people should be forced into decisions one way or another. Also, I will not support the possible overturned for Roe v. Wade.
When did the Evangelicals become Conservatives, around the time of the 1980 Presidental election where they turned on one of their own (Jimmy Carter) and supported a guy who was an actor and had a divorce (Ronald Reagan). Unsure if that was because the Republican courted the Evangelicals better than the Dems or the fact the FCC in 1979 under Carter open an investigation against Jim Bakker on raising funds and using them on personal expanses and Heritage USA. Bakker called it a witch hunt and rallied his supporters against the government. The Investigation ended in 1982 under Reagan (What a surprise HAHAHA). Since that Evangelicals have been on the Republicans side. I'm surprised by this especially with those who claimed read the bible every day. Let's just said that the bible is for helping the poor and less fortunate and to put it nicely less sympathetic to the rich. I don't think all rich people are terrible but I said a good number of them are. I don't think Christian teaching would support Reaganomics, among other GOP beliefs that Evangelicals seems to supports. Also, they're against Abortion but for the Death Penalty, does that like sense? I admit again I AM FOR THE DEATH PENALTY BUT FOR LIMITED USE. I do believe some animals do deserve to be slaughter but again a limited use and the prosecutors better be 100 percent sure and have concrete evidence that they got the right suspect. Plus I hear that it's cheaper to lock someone up for life than to put them on Death Row. Now let's get them supporting Trump. It doesn't make much sense, evangelicals had a buffet of candidates like Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Raul Paul, among others and they chose a thrice married, foul-mouthed, tit judge (Thanks to Sam Bee) who probably doesn't go to Sunday mass or mass in general in Trump. Then they blame Hillary for Bill's wrongdoing and gave Trump a pass on his extra-marital affairs plus they more than likely supported the impeachment of Bill over 20 years ago. It sickens like to see these post on Facebook of Trump being called the most Christian President ever. Child please. The only reason (or one of the main ones) is because Trump gives them a right to be bullies, great lesson to teach their kids. Another thing about the anti-abortion laws, what happened to the separation of Church and State? Isn't that on the Constitution? Plus Evangelicals whined about the government forcing them to decisions against their beliefs however Conservatives took power and now they're forcing people their beliefs on them. Hypocritical no? I know, I'm one of the last people to tell people how to believe, what to believe, etc. but I wished they were more honest of why they're for Republicans and Trump and also wished they understand that not all Americans are Christian and that are Christians like me who liberal.
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