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LJ Idol Season 10, Week 6: "Heel Turn"

Jan 24, 2017 14:51

Let's talk about the election ( Read more... )

dude where's my soapbox, let's get critical, gods and monsters, open mike, first person, pen to paper

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m_malcontent January 25 2017, 16:28:41 UTC

I am an agnostic comfortable with Christian terminology, but the God of Trump supporters is so unlike the God I was raised with.

bewize January 26 2017, 20:48:05 UTC

This.

Only, sadly not, since I left the Church. I could not reconcile the two views then and I cannot reconcile it now.

I'll admit that I haven't been as active in the church recently as I was in the past. I'm still torn as to whether this is a blessing or a curse.

Thanks for reading!

I sometimes wonder whether we're reading the same Bible.

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morettaallstar January 25 2017, 16:40:24 UTC

Spread your Gospel, forgiveness and kindness and teaching, and help those you can. I think that's all that's left for the US at the moment.

Yea, though I walk through the valley...

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j0ydivided January 26 2017, 07:43:03 UTC

Whether we like it or not, many people are single-issue voters. For a lot of the religious right, that single-issue is abortion.

I had the recent misfortune to talk to a group of (quite terrible, frankly) women about why they voted for Trump. Their logic was simple: their God demands that we end abortion, and they see Trump as being the easiest way to do it.

Considering the current legislation being pushed (HR 7 comes to mind, immediately), I cannot say as I am surprised by this.

I'm torn on the abortion issue. There's definitely Scriptural backing for being against it, but it's sparse.

I just wish that some other term had been agreed on for the Christian view than "pro-life", because as many have pointed out, some other Republican views are anything but.

Thanks for reading!

rayaso January 26 2017, 19:46:44 UTC

Perhaps they voted for Trump in spite of their religion, and not because of it, and whatever Trump said/did, their secular reasons for supporting Trump overrode their religious objections, plus there was the issue of abortion, which for many is the deciding one.

I can certainly understand the theory behind having a business leader running the largest corporate entity in the world (namely, the US Government). The trouble is, Trump's not a particularly good businessman. If Bill Gates or Warren Buffett were running? Sign me up.

Thanks for reading!

alycewilson January 26 2017, 21:10:49 UTC

And that right there is why I stopped going to church! Too much petty small mindedness disguised as faith.

Like Emily Dickinson, I keep the Sabbath at home.

I'm in between churches right now, but I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's also plenty of good to be found in the church and its people; I do my best to ignore the pettiness, but I definitely recognize that it's there.

Thanks for reading!