Charlie Kirk echoes thoughtless claim that you can't "be a Christian and vote Democrat"
Charlie Kirk echoes thoughtless claim that you can't "be a Christian and vote Democrat"
Who needs theology when you have Trump?
Why is this guy’s face so tiny?
Must be inferior genes.
Haha 😂 exactly
You can't be a Christian and vote for Democrats, you can't be a Jew and vote for Democrats... what are their feelings on Jains?
Script: You can't be a ____ and vote for Democrats.
Democrat
No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a-posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim. Rather than admitting error or providing evidence that would disqualify the falsifying counterexample, the claim is modified into an a-priori claim in order to definitionally exclude the undesirable counterexample. The modification is signalled by the use of non-substantive rhetoric such as "true", "pure", "genuine", "authentic", "real", etc.
Note that most protestants adhere to Sola fides and Sola Scriptura, which means Kirk and other minister can only offer their stinky opinion. Your relationship to God is between you and Them, and how you personally read the bible (e.g. which passages take priority, which are literal, which are out of date.)
If you're Catholic, then you're bolden to the Pope, the CDF (the Inquisition) and your hierarchy of clergy. But then most Catholics I know are laid back and will chow down steak on Friday and use contraceptives as it suits them. I'm not fully cognizant of how they do it without cognitive dissonance.
Anyhow, this means it's fully possible to be Christian and athiest, though most are still closeted about their atheism.
Uriel the atheist!
Personally, I'm a naturalist, but my process of getting here involved coming to terms with insignificance of a magnitude that was overwhelming. But the process gave me an awareness of some of the difficulties others might have confronting the stark truth of the matter, so Camus' notion of philosophical suicide can be very attractive.
That said, it's better for someone to own their faith, and to go into it willingly and informed, rather than it serving as a device by which ministries and apologists use it to turn them into a cash cow or instant soldier. But the foundational doctrine of Protestantism was intended to steer the faithful back to defining truth for themselves (since the Church was glad to squeeze them for toil and coin and send them on crusades. The individual can't blame God or scripture or even their own ministry for justifying hate through faith.
The devil didn't make you do it: It's still on you.
Of course not. Religion is a control scheme, if you're not being controlled (by them) than you're not a member of whichever religion they're appealing to in order to control you.
CORRECT! TRUE Christians ONLY vote REPUBLICAN! And ONLY TRUE Jewie people vote REPUBLICAN! And ONLY TRUE Any Religion without Brown people or Gay people vote REPUBLICAN! And even the Gay Religions ONLY vote Republican!
This is interesting, and it's the key way abortion is being positioned.
If you actually believe abortion is murder, there's zero discussion available.
Voting for anyone who supports "murder" is just not an option. .
Obviously I hope it's clear I'm not holding this opinion, but describing it
Vast majority of these people who say abortion is murder support the death penalty without a blink of the eye, even and especially in cases where there is serious doubts if the accused is the perpetrator of the crime.
So many people who say abortion is murder also say it's acceptable for rape and incest.
They are not consistent on that most of the time even though a fetus is a fetus. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they aren't, but you can see from there that they're hypocritical.
And then there's this-
https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
God that's so greasy
Who would want to be a Christian?
I can’t tell if this image is edited or if that’s the real size of his face.
This image is definitely edited. They made his face bigger.