A "CHRISTIAN" Nation?
Even most non-Christians know Jesus's admonitions to his followers to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and care for the sick and dying.
Now let's acknowledge the bleedin' obvious, shall we?
There isn't a self-proclaimed-Christian Republican who would ever run for office espousing those principles, because they know no self-proclaimed-Christian Republican would ever vote for them.
Show me a Republican candidate running on a platform of making healthcare more affordable, or providing free meals to the poor, and I'll show you a candidate who will be shouted down by the "good Christians" in his party for wanting to give away their tax dollars to undeserving, lazy deadbeats.
Show me a Republican office-seeker campaigning on the promise of housing the homeless, and I'll show you a candidate whose first campaign speech in front of his Bible-thumping Republican base will be his last.
Given today's hate-the-browns-and-blacks climate in the GOP, dare I even mention Christ's directive to "welcome the stranger"? That's the kind of rhetoric that could get you crucified these days - and those self-proclaimed-Christian Republicans would gladly supply the wood and the nails.
The only time you'll hear a Republican politician invoke their alleged Christianity is when they rail against abortion and homosexuality - two topics Christ never even spoke about - or to ask for thoughts-and-prayers after a mass shooting perpetrated by someone with an automatic weapon that, as Republicans will tell you, he had a God-given right to own.
I don't know where all the real Christians are these days - but it's pretty obvious they aren't in the GOP.
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to make themselves look good to others who have been taught by fake scammy pastors that being Xtian is being a bigot, misogynists, ad nauseum, "cherrypicking" commandments & Biblical verses that suit what they're taught, hateful toward others, ESPECIALLY the homeless, the poor, refugees, immigrants, (that aren't lily white, that is, which apparently excuses their being undocumented) while never realising that Jesus was a JEW but NOT European descent more like the Sephardic, Abyssinian or Landino type, you know...dark skinned, eyed & haired, (very curly hair); He was HOMELESS, hung out with folks considered to be, in that time, OUTCASTS, tax collectors, the Poor, Children, Women, Sex Workers, (AKA Prostitutes); He was POOR, especially after He began his ministry in the ;ast 3 years of his life. He was what these types would consider to be an "Illegal Immigrant" as an infant when the Angel told His earthly father, Joseph, to pack up Mary, the baby & bounce out of Judah to Egypt & stay there until told by the same Angel when it was safe to come back, (Same situation with MOSES, except he was floated down the Nile from Goshen, which is where the Israelites lived); They idiots are NOT Christians but hypocrites and completely goes against what Christ taught about going around praising themselves and praying in public for clout, aka the Pharisees or talking about how holy they were & how everyone else was going to be damned, aka the Saducees.
I would have never thought that I would refuse to go to an actual church unless it's a wedding, celebration of Life, Midnight Mass, (I married a Bohemian Czech from Central Texas-CATHOLIC, so...
) because I attended church EVERY sunday and I was also the music director AND was in protestant Christian Schools where I saw these fake Xtians and as an AA child, I listened to so called pastors talk about how black Gospel music was "jungle music", ad nauseum. I have since understood that God does NOT need a building made by human hands, that He's everywhere & most importantly, in the hearts of His children.
It always pisses me off when I hear folks claim to be Christians but they hate Jews, (did I mention that Jesus was a Jew?) and hate ANYONE whose ancestors don't hail from Europe. It's all about marketing and that disgusting prosperity christianity that is about as real as a mud window & the stupid people who follow that nonsense never actually study the Bible because if they did, they'd know that they're being lied to.
It's nice to meet someone on DU who sees & understands that there is a TRUE & REAL CHRISTIANITY. I've been a member here on DU since 2004 but had to make a new account because I couldn't remember my pw after I flunked hospice in 2011, survived bleeding out my entire blood volume 2x & cardiac arrest, which resulted in 3 NDE's where I met the being I honestly believe was God face to face, Childhood rape, brutal abuse at the hands of the thing I laughingly refer to as my father even somehow surviving the breaking in of our house by a sexual predator who had raped and murdered two other little girls about 2 miles down the street I lived on. The craziest thing? My brother and I had been allowed to sleep in the front room in sleeping bags & the creep literally stepped into the window I was sleeping under but he thought I was a boy because he could see his face but I sleep with my head under the covers. One day, I'll tell the story. Yes indeed, there is a God who cares about us.
Happy Mama's Day to you if you're a mother, to your mom, sisters, friends, grandmothers or a single daddy of human children or furbabies! Blessings to you!
.. "Christians" should really be labeled a different religion. They have a completely different mindset ... very far from the traditional teachings of Jesus Christ. Of course, this isn't the first time people en masse have taken a religious figure's "peace and love" message and turned it into a "war and hate" crusade.
There are two major groups of ‘Christians’ in our country;
Christians of faith and
Political Christians who praise proud adulterer Trump who does not need Christ’s forgiveness and ridicules Holy Communion.
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When a theocracy takes over America, which church (Christian of course) will be in charge?
Will the others accept their rule?
Many Catholics/Protestants consider the other to be false Christians.
Would they accept Mormons as the rulers?
The new rulers will be political Christians rather than Christians of faith.
Consider CBR – Cash Based Religion.
Those who say the United States is "a Christian Nation" are the ones who abhor all that is good in other people of different faiths not based in Christianity. They find it difficult to find common ground in tenets that emphasize goodness in others, taking care of the Earth and its resources, etc.
These so-called Christians fail to realize that the first Christian church that was established before the 4th Century while the Roman Empire was still in existence, ultimately became the Catholic Church. That all other denominations of the Catholic Church derived from it once the Protestant Reformation began sweeping Europe in the early 16th Century under a Catholic Monk named Martin Luther.
Learning the history of the Christian Church is too much for these people. Too "WOKE" I reckon! 
and I'm not even arguing with what you said. You can find it all in that Book.
But what people don't think about... don't consider... is that it's the culture around the religion that makes it so. All these "books" were written hundreds of years after the death of that "Christ"... most by those who'd heard third and fourth hand any info. And the stories within them are almost all gathered from other religions in the area at the time, and modified to fit what the authors wanted them to show.
Who knows if there even -was- a "Christ" that the bible teaches about? There were a lot of christs running around declaring themselves the messiah at that time. So many, it was a real pain in the butt to the Romans. And there isn't one good admonition in the bible that you can't find any almost any other religion... in that area and beyond it. There are some "truths" that are just ethically based across people. As a Seeker decades ago, I sought out the core truths amongst many of them and found it to be a "truth."
Culture and society changes the religion. Religion wishes it wasn't so, and fights with all their power to tamp it down to the barest minimum. But when the shekels start disappearing, the church will change inch by inch to get them coming back into the offering basket. The church has a vested interest in controlling the masses. The masses just want to be free. The government sides with the church as long as controlling the masses is a shared aim. The whole damn thing is politics at its base. Anyone looking for something spiritual or soul comforting is not going to find it in a church. It will be by searching out and discovering your own truths... and eventually creating a path of your own you can follow in good faith.
These Christians of today are no different than those of the 4th century. They don't like what their bible says... they want the freedom to change it as they see fit. So, bit by bit, they're trying to overtake the churches and remake them into what they envision it should be. Our government is in bed with the church (taken as a global whole), and has been for decades now. As long as it's about controlling the masses of us, getting us to back their visions, all is good. But the masses are in complete turmoil now. Call it cognitive dissonance. And thus, the churches can't find the way to control us; we've presently got a govt that is trying its best to be at arms length to the church, and those who are influencing the church are winning converts over to their side. By the time the whole damn thing has been worked out -- either by blood or diplomacy -- the Christian church is going to something completely different from what it is now, because of the changes our culture will have implanted in it. These Christianists (that's what I call them) are the seeds for the death of the church, globally, eventually. And I feel its going to be sooner rather than later. This church isn't just the christian church, either. You can see the same thing happening in Islam and Hindu religions. The masses are trying to turn away and/or change the church back to what they deem it should be, and the PTB are fighting them tooth and nail on it. That's why I said it'll settle either by blood or diplomacy.
Right now, Turning Point, NAR, and other Evangelical based religions have just "appropriated" the label of Christianity because that's the major religion in this country. Just because they've appropriated the moniker doesn't mean they've accepted the tenets or beliefs. They've picked out what they like -- what we would call the bad parts (like slavery, genocide, etc), and taken them as their own in creating their own brand of christianity. Most people want to better themselves and society around them. These people are hooked on evil. They see it as more powerful than good. Unfortunately, good people have already appropriated the label of "Satanists" and that path is too soft and wishy-washy for what these people want to accomplish. I believe they could and would have chosen that label given half the chance, but again... the Satanists have already set their path, and thanks to those like LaVey, they were into such shock jock techniques it couldn't be bended to fit what the christianists wanted today. Besides, the religion is just too small in numbers to help them accomplish their ends. All hail satan! (gryn)
What I find hilarious is how stupid these magas are about the book they proclaim. The things they fight against, aren't even mentioned in the book... or if it is, it's written about in completely different formats. They have to twist the words into puzzles to make it come out the way they want. They try to link disparate books of the bible to each other... like linking Revelation and other prophecy to Daniel in the OT. They might as well be scrying into a crystal ball. Their "prayers" of all types have all the formula of a spell included in them. They're not prayers to a god,.. they're setting up spells to act on reality, instead of having the cajones to actually affect the work themselves.
Sorry for rambling. This is just one piece of the politics today that I have a vested interest in. Plus, I'm trying to come out of a lupus flare today and that leaves my head a bit foggy, and words go on, rather than fit themselves concisely.
Like I said, I'm not arguing with what you said, brook... in fact, I agree with it. I just don't think people are going far enough, or deep enough, into the reasons. I graduated 3 hours shy of a degree in Anthropology, and sometimes that piece of me just won't lay still. 
He took bribes of gold and jewels from 3 kings the day he was borne. That’s the teachings GQP politicians live by. So they do, follow “some” of the examples set by their savior. 
i aggrree with your statement. 
The founders signed a treaty affirming that the US was NOT founded as a christian nation
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