Liberals and Conservatives! What is your idea of a Church?

A church makes intrusive, expensive, inefficient and controlling government programs less necessary. Therefore no liberal can tolerate letting one exist.

I know, some of you are saying "I'm a liberal and I don't mind churches at all." Believe me - you're in the wrong party. Literally 100% of those you vote for consider YOU the enemy.

Campus speech codes in and of themselves do not quite bog down free expression. The way they are frequently interpreted and enforced does. Investigate out the hyperlinks below for a couple of examples. Sincerely, what occurs is that a conservative scholar or group makes a political declaration that's then reinterpreted as "antagonistic" or "hateful". They are then punished for violating a speech code, even if they just questioned a public policy like Affirmative motion or homosexual marriage. A further way conservative ideas will also be suppressed is via conveniently no longer giving them any publicity. A variety of professors will lean closely from left-leaning authors and opinions when discussing a subject, might be throwing in a number of reasonable-conservative authors for "balance". The professor can then declare they are "function"...Even though the conservative fabric is used as a strawman and faces a a lot bigger degree of criticism than the liberal material. I'm now not saying it's a enormous hindrance, and it is genuine that conservative scholars can nonetheless express themselves on campus. But it's proper that they most likely face barriers the opposite part would not. And i say this as a libertarian, someone who does now not accept as true with conservatives half of the time.

You are simply asking what are idea of a Church is personally I'm independent I lean a little more left my mother who's a good Women loving Mother to her three children and a great friend to everyone hates negativity. But leans more Liberal doesn't really care for politics like I do but understands it's important during an Election Year. Anyway My idea of a Church is a place to Worship God to see people's lives changed and go to a place who you really are and not feel judge.

I honestly wish Religion wasn't a factor in politics I believe in the separation of Church and State and don't think you should be judge for not going to it. The political Right and Left say hateful and rude things when the fact is Jesus didn't have a political Party.

I think a Church is a place where you should be able to go and not be judge on your Personal or political beliefs.

And I believe in freedom of speech but don't like it when pastors bring up politics and I always say Jesus didn't have a political party.

Also Jesus would look down upon someone doe judging someone else.

We at the Christian Coalition are raising an army who cares. We are training people to be effective -- to be elected to school boards, to city councils, to state legislatures, and to key positions in political parties.... By the end of this decade, if we work and give and organize and train, THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA

-- Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter, July 4, 1991

Good Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

-- Rev Jerry Falwell,

The church started with the agenda to enslave people spiritually, mentally and physically. When Constantine adopted Christianity as the empire-wide religion, one of the first laws he passed was to bond peasants to the land. The following 1,000 years was the Dark Age when 95% of the population were kept poor, illiterate and lived in terror.

Look at the history of crusades, inquisitions and witch-hunting and you will understand the underlying reasons why the church kept using such apparatus of fear to enslave the minds of the masses.

Through the development of events that weakened the power of the church (Mongol conquest in the 13th century, black death in the 14th century, fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD, reformist movement in the 16th century, etc), the people in Europe began to realize that the church was corrupted and incompetent. Spinoza's articles on "god is nature and nature is god" inspired more writers who questioned about god and led to articles like Marxism, etc being explored as alternatives to the existing ruling monarchies.

Church is for others, not for me. While I think it can be nice to build community, I don't have faith.

I have nothing against those who believe, but I don't appreciate it when they force their beliefs onto others and use it to attack civil liberties.

I believe in evolution, support gay equality, and believe in a woman's right to choose (at least for the first trimester). I don't like it when religious people attack these ideas.

The Dao

The big problem with beliefs of any religion is that they exclude people.

Ideally any church that followed Jesus would not be able to exclude anyone.

Conservative, I attend a southern baptist church and I am a christian.

Doesn't matter what mine is.