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Let me get this straight, republicans dont want government right?

You want the government to tell people who they can marry, what a woman can do with her body ( to me, that's basically controlling a person's life right there ) HOWEVER, you feel the government goes too far when it tries to help people?

In the Bible, All Jesus talks about is making sure the needy are taken care of, making sure the sick are taken care of, sharing, providing. These were not options, this is what is said in red that you have to do to make it to the kingdom of heaven. Yet when I say this, people say...Jesus was not a politician, blah blah, ect. Yet, when it comes to a woman's body, who people can marry, ect, republicans say the country is founded on Christianity and religious freedoms are being taken away because of things that dont even effect you. But then, if the country is founded on Christianity then why dont we do what Jesus said we "had" to do, what we "must" do in feeding the hungry, and providing for the sick? Heck, read the new testament from start to finish and it'll contradict everything republicans are angry over. If Jesus was to come back now, and people didn't know who he was, and started turning over tables like he did in the Bible and preached just exactly what he did in the bible about the needy, sick and hungry I bet people would call him a socialist hippie. I bet the very people who call themselves religious would be against him, just like 2000 years ago.

Update:

ICHEE, show you anywhere that I read what? you cant be talking about the bible? The most widely bought and read book of all time?

Update 2:

The Mobfather - Like Mitt Romney, I guess you dont see the millions of homeless people on the street. Romney doesnt care about poor people, they're are some middle class people who are just one or two bad bumps in the road from being poor. I guess Romney will stop caring about them.

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Mobfather - Atleast he's trying and cares but anything he tries to do it's socialism or welfare, blah blah. Anything to try to make Americans lives a little easier just like the contraception issue, republicans have a problem with that. THE ECONOMY AND JOBS ARE AT A HIGHER LEVEL NOW THAN THEY WERE AT BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS ELECTED!

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Homeless people are largely homeless, because of government interference in a market system (mortgage industry) it had no business meddling with. The sub prime mortgage debacle would have been eliminated if government hadn't insulated lenders from making bad loans. Then lying to investors about the quality of derivatives. There would have been no need for the bailouts to Obama's Wall Street buddies. There is an economic principle: Whatever the government pays for, it will produce more of. I guarantee, if the government pays for homeless, jobless, hungry people it will only produce more jobless, hungry and homeless people.

    Republicans like me (TEA party patriots) want a limited government. If you are still reading this, Government has no business changing a hundred thousand contracts by altering the definition of a word. Republicans want to save and preserve (Innocent) life. Not all life. There is a huge difference.

    Jesus said many things besides your hippie feel good misconceptions. Jesus called most of his disciples while they were at work -e.g. fishing, or at a tax office. David and Moses were both called when they were out with the sheep. Elisha was called while he was plowing. Jesus seemed to like busy industrious people, commending shrewd stewards, hard-working managers that turned a profit, and centurions who were senior military officers bearing considerable responsibility in tough times.

  • 9 years ago

    No, anarchists don't want government. It's interesting how you can be pro-"choice" and "women's heath" and keep government out of a woman's decision to do what she wants medically with herself (even though all of the effect of an abortion is to end the life of a person that isn't the woman in question) and then support Obama care which, by its definition and intent is to take away medical choice from not only women but men too and place it in the hands of the government.

    I'm not a Christian but I don't recall Jesus running around killing the unborn.

    "THE ECONOMY AND JOBS ARE AT A HIGHER LEVEL NOW THAN THEY WERE AT BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS ELECTED" You're just wrong. Unemployment means that people are NOT working. It's a bad number to have high. We have higher long term unemployment now than we did during the great depression.

  • 9 years ago

    I think you had better join a Bible study before you attempt to use the bible to justify your political beliefs. You can't take a few verses out of context and make them fit your agenda. And by the way more people are on food stamps and receiving entitlements under Obama. Unemployment is falsely lower because many people have run out of unemployment benefits and have given up on looking for work. Last time I checked the job fairs and the newspaper job listings were dismally low. We still have a housing crisis. Obama's asinine policies have made this recovery slower and more painful than is should have been had he known what the heck he was doing. The debt levels under Obama have grown more than all previous presidents combined. You Obama supporters will continue to support this failure irregardless of the facts.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    No. Republicans don't want government USURPING UNLAWFUL POWER.

    > We don't want the government to tell people who they MUST RECOGNIZE as "married."

    > We don't want government PROTECTING the INITIATION of lethal force to mutilate YOUR DAUGHTER to death.

    In the Bible, Jesus NEVER ONCE talks about having government USE FORCE to COMPEL OTHERS to pay for the POLITICALLY defined "needy." He NEVER ONCE suggests FORCING OTHERS to make sure the sick are taken care of AS DEFINED by POLITICS. He NEVER ONCE suggests FORCING OTHERS into ANY of the things you mention.

    BTW - you are literally 100% certain you cannot cite ANYTHING Obama has done that OBAMA didn't say was a BAD idea for the economy. We're more than 2 million jobs SHORT of what we had when Obama was elected. Look at the chart OBAMA published that shows how high unemployment would be over time if we DIDN'T do his plan. OBAMA'S prediction is that PRESENT unemployment would be about 6% if we just left things alone.

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  • kpk02
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    No.. I don't want government forcing people to accept a definition of marriage either way. Marriage is a cultural thing and not every group of people or every state has the same culture, so the federal government has no businesses banning or legalizing marriage of any specific type. If an individual state wants to vote to determine what they want "marriage" to be then that's fine.

    People like you also really need to open your eyes to the fundamental conflict between the sides on the issue of abortion. One side sees it as killing a child or preventing life while the other side does not. The "what a woman can do with her body" is an extremely overused phrase because it tries to sidestep and toss away real concerns people have. People aren't against abortion because they want to control someone's body. They are against it because they believe it as a form of murder which should not be someone's right.

    Jesus preaches of voluntary generosity and caring for the needy... doing it out of your own good will. Government run programs and decisions do not count. People helping people is what counts.

    People aren't against helping other people. People are against being forced to pay for government programs that may or may not even be run well or effectively targeting the people who truly need help. People should be able to have full freedom of choice of where they want to donate their time and money in order to help others.

  • 9 years ago

    What we want is a government that lives within the limits set for it in the Constitution. We do see the millions of unemployed and we know how they got there. Funny how i heard democrats say they were "comfortable" with unemployment at 9%.

    Your statement about Obama is untrue, unemployment was at 6% or less, gas prices and food were lower, the dow had hit 14K and we had a stable growing economy.

    Live without the rose colored glasses.

  • 9 years ago

    You are confused, let me help.

    Republicans - for conservative government

    Anarchist - opposed to any form of government.

    Jesus Christ - not a government official or a politician. Your boy Obama said you couldn't use the bible as a guide for government. Are you disagreeing with Obama?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Gee....still the same lines. Why do the simple things escape liberals.

    If marriage is between a man & woman, then NO ONE is stopping ANY MAN from marrying any WOMAN.

    Sweetie you can hit yourself in the head with a hammer all day, but when you get pregnant there is now another life involved. If someone murders a pregnant woman, he gets TWO counts.

    The govt help people. Right. The govt is made up of people, agreed? Those people want to stay in office & use OPM to buy votes all in the name of "helping" people.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    La LA LA LA...... More noise that is worthless to read.

    Here is some truth for your readers to read sense you obviously have little to spare...

    Obama spent 535 million on Solyndra and all he got was a lousy T shirt... Which is a lot more than We the tax payer who footed the bill will ever get…

    Obama makes it look easy to throw others money away on hunch bets... He grabs a few hundred Million a day and says call my bookie I want to bet on XYZ Green to win in the Fifth at the GO Green Piece Track in Intercourse PA.…

    Did you know there was a dozen more Hunch bets that Obama made with our tax dollars that have went belly up? No? Ohhhhhhhh Yeah....

    6.5 Billion American tax dollars pi$$ed away.... We need to send Obama Home on November 6th…

    http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/13/cbs-obama-ad...

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. To give from the heart is the key here, not to have the Law steal from others to give to the evil. Asking you to walk a mile and forcing you to walk a mile is not the same thing.

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