So exactly when did God become a Republican?

[Cyrano]

I find it amazing how the most thoughtless, ignorant people among us -- Republican voters -- lay claim to God being one of them. They consistently vote for the most greedy, mean-spirited, despicable candidates imaginable. How does that fit with their belief in a "loving God?"

Of course, these candidates always proclaim their belief in God during their campaigns, and what He/She/It really wants the world to be like. And why not? Do you think they’re afraid of getting hit by lightening bolts? And do you really think that they themselves buy the God crap they’re selling?

Full disclosure here. I’m an agnostic. But if some type of God or universal intelligence exists, he/she/it would have to really have screwed up badly to create a world in which such extreme arrogance and ignorance knows no bounds.

Here’s some cheap advice. The next time you hear some politician talking about God, change the station. They’re peddling snake oil. The sad part is that the rubes are still buying it.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. It was during his old testament years

[Scuba]

4. +1

[Marazinia]

13. Not so

Too much of the Old Testament can be construed as requiring justice and mercy, even for the poorest and least powerful and even for strangers in ones' land. Do not bind the mouths of the kine that tread the grain, for example, or jubilee, or being open handed to the poor and even handed in justice.

[FiveGoodMen]

31. You make a good point.

Not too many pages away from there is all the horrible stuff.

But yeah, there was some concern for justice and decency even then.

[Marazinia]

33. You're right as well

The Old Testament was never easy reading for me. But there's some good stuff in there. Too bad many Christians' required reading begins and ends with the Ten Commandments and the verses regarding homosexuality.

[Tom Ripley]

38. You mean that whiney, pissy, petty, narcissistic, vengeful god?

"Hey Satan, watch what I can put Job through!"

[libodem]

2. When he became a man

[mmonk]

3. When much of Christianity kicked out Jesus of Nazareth,

I quit showing up. :P

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. You don't believe in supply side Jesus?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Read on Calvinism. I promise the answer is there

Short and sweet, wealth determines salvation.

[Cyrano]

26. The only thing I think I remember about Calvinism is that

they are always worried that "someone, somewhere in the world is having a good time."

I borrowed that quote from memory, but I don't know who said it first. Nonetheless, it really seems to hit the mark. The Republican's fixation on getting into everyone's bedroom seems to be some kind of unidentified mental illness.

[GSanon]

44. Only thing I remember about Calvies

He picked some for one place and the rest for the other place.
It doesn't matter what you do at all.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. In this country? Easy. 1980 when Reagan ran for his first term.

He crazy-glued himself to Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority and never looked back.

[WCGreen]

22. It's when the GOP embraced a pro-life stance even though they had

championed planned parenthood late into the 60's...

[no_hypocrisy]

24. Post-Nixon. He didn't give a crap either way.

[txlibdem]

35. Moral Majority? You mean the guy who went on tv crying "Lord I have sinned against you"

The term was dropped for a very good reason. They are neither Moral nor the Majority. They are just a bunch of people who were fooled into fighting for things that are against their own self interest (the millions who bought into that crap that is), all good folks with good hearts but they believed the wrong people... and now look where it got us.

[eShirl]

43. I think that was a different hypocrite, but the same type of blowhard. n/t

[lib2DaBone]

8. God became a Republican at the last supper....

He knew he was going down for the count.. so why throw good money after bad?

God knew he could buy-off the Republican Senators and buy himself some time.. but just like Lybia and Iraq... the oil companies stepped up the timetable and he was screwed.

[Cyrano]

29. Actually, Republicanism was born when the waiter presented the

bill for the last supper. (Feeding 12 guests wasn't that cheap even back then.)

[Fumesucker]

9. When Reagan took His place as deity.. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

10. when something is pretend AND completely ill-defined

people can ascribe all sorts of things to "him".

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Good answer!

:thumbsup:

[KamaAina]

11. When He made His first hundred billion

:eyes:

[Gregorian]

12. It's just one of the symptoms of being narcissistic and delusional.

Hell, my very liberal father keeps talking about all of the miracles in his life. Hey, miracles might exist, but to say you know they exist is just ignorant. The last time I checked, prayer didn't pass the scientific method.

[Cyrano]

16. I don't see anything wrong with prayer and belief in some God if

it brings people comfort. And of course, it will never pass any scientific analysis.

However, the Republicans use their version of God as a weapon with which to bludgeon us.

I think it does a great disservice to true believers who find comfort in religion -- any religion.

[Gregorian]

23. Amen!

It's strange how twisted it all gets. I see so many unreasonable people. Which is why I love DU. And a couple of other places.

[SteveM]

14. 3 years after Nashville's "country music" did. nt

[ieoeja]

15. Genesis 3:22

"And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:"

The very first morality play in the bible states that the Lord of Gods opposed education and opposed free healthcare because he wanted to keep all power to himself.

Frankly, if I believed and chose the Christian definition that the Serpent was Satan, then I would be Satanic. Not the I-love-evil Crowley version of Satanism. But because, by American moral definitions, the 1st three chapters of the bible show Yaweh-el to be evil and the Serpent to be good.


God told Adam & Eve eating from the tree of knowledge would kill them.

Serpent said otherwise. Serpent told the truth. God lied.

God responded by kicking Adam & Eve out of the garden to prevent them from eating from the tree of life because that would have made us God's equal, and we breed like rabbits. Every human death since that moment can be laid at God's feet.

[GSanon]

45. Maybe you would be a Gnostic? nt

.

[RKP5637]

17. When the republicans bought god. n/t

[RegieRocker]

18. Only the Devil plays in the field of politics. It's B.S.

[RKP5637]

19. Good point! The R's re-branded evilness as godliness and then ran on the god platform. n/t

[CrispyQ]

20. Colbert nailed it:

[spanone]

25. the thugs learned long ago to court the god crowd. it's a complete fraud.

[opihimoimoi]

27. It allows them to appeal to the EMOTIONAL GROUP....Makes them feel Righteous and Shit

[Kaleva]

28. You need to reverse the question.

[Ilsa]

30. They think the Bible says things like, "God helps those who help themselves"

and other bullshit platitudes which aren't even close to being biblical.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. When God turned green and had pictures of dead Presidents printed on him (her)

[Defectata]

34. when he gave birth to reagan

[AsahinaKimi]

36. Probably about the time the Republicans put their claim on the US FLAG.

No one but a Republican knows the value of Patriotism.. thats what they say right? bastards..

[panzerfaust]

37. In The Beginning

And, yes, the rubes are still buying it: Just as they always have.

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

[stlsaxman]

39. On "The First Day" - when Man created God. From "Aqualung" liner notes...

In the beginning Man created God;
And in the image of Man created he him.

2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names,
that he might be Lord over all the earth when it was suited to Man.

3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested
and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good.

4 And Man formed Aqualung of the dust of the ground,
and a host of others likened unto his kind.

5 And these lesser men Man did cast into the void. And some were burned;
and some were put apart from their kind.

6 And Man became the God that he had created
and with his miracles did rule over all the earth.

7 But as these things did come to pass,
the Spirit that did cause Man to create his God
lived on within all men: even within Aqualung.

8 And Man saw it not.

9 But for Christ’s sake he’d better start looking.

[Octafish]

40. Abraham Vereide knew a gold mine when he saw it.

Remember The Family?

[Blue_Tires]

41. 1994 by my count

[NeedleCast]

42. God Would Make A Great Republican - Jesus, Not So Much

Read the old testament of the bible. God is pretty much an jealous, vengeful asshole who kills a shit-ton of people.