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Bestbank Tiger 
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 7:13 pm to CITWTT)
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Then you met me overthere at sometine in your posting overthere, there a few people from it that I would like to know about. A guy with the first name of Sam is one.
He's still around. I don't remember you over there...what was your name there?
And I've always been curious why you chose "Citwit" here. It's too easy to change the C to an N 
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RCDfan1950 
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 8:38 pm to lsu480)
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lsu480
How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor?
If Jesus came back and had to choose between being a Republican or a Democrat I am quite sure he would be a Democrat. He would be all for welfare, universal health care, helping your fellow man, etc. How can Republicans call themselves Christians and be against these things? It is VERY hypocritical.
Happy Easter, 480. And but for the Republican party, we probably would not be able to utter the name Jesus in our government mechanism. Of the which if the Dems had their way...the WHOLE thing would be run by government.
If anything is coming down with Jesus...it'll be that he comes back a lays waste to the entire Dem party. The throw God and Jesus under the bus. He said..."if you deny me, I'll deny you". The Dems are toast, lest they get on board.
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IceTiger 
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 8:47 pm to lsu480)
God only asked for 10%
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LockdownDefense
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3897 posts
| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 8:59 pm to lsu480)
Republican Jesus
This post was edited on 4/8 at 9:01 pm
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GoCrazyAuburn 
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9070 posts
| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 9:02 pm to LockdownDefense)
That picture isn't in everybody's house?
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JWS3 
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 9:27 pm to lsu480)
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If Jesus came back and had to choose between being a Republican or a Democrat I am quite sure he would be a Democrat. He would be all for welfare, universal health care, helping your fellow man, etc. How can Republicans call themselves Christians and be against these things? It is VERY hypocritical.
Republicans are all for "individuals" helping the poor, and supporting causes that actually help our fellow man. We do not support the idea that the government can perform this function better than the individual. It is not a hypocritical positon.
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GoCrazyAuburn
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 9:34 pm to JWS3)
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He would be all for welfare, universal health care, helping your fellow man, etc. How can Republicans call themselves Christians and be against these things? It is VERY hypocritical.
So, you are saying Jesus would support somebody forcing somebody else to pay for some service for a third party? Really?
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Jake88 
George Mason Fan
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 11:12 pm to lsu480)
So Jesus was an enabler of bad habits?
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Tiguar 
South Alabama Fan
Mobile
Member since Mar 2012
2861 posts
| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/8/12 at 11:15 pm to Jake88)
Alright, here's the deal.
Giving to the poor is great. You should do it. No one else can make you or tell you to. Democrats want to make you give to the poor.
God (ergo, Jesus) created man with free will. We have the ability to make the right and wrong decisions. No one is stopping people from giving to the poor under Republican fiscal policy, but no one is making you either.
edit: By the same token, no one can tell you what you can and can't do with respect to abortion or gay marriage and the like either. The problem arises when it starts getting funded with public monies.
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flucobaseball
LSU Fan
VA
Member since Apr 2004
5885 posts
| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:14 am to ottothewise)
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pretending to be a Christian just means going to church and spouting off Calvinistic criticisms of others, quoting Scripture.
You fail to understand Calvinism
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flucobaseball
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:16 am to DA)
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We're not condescending. You just think we are. I understand. Your side is silly
I see a contradiction
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bleedpg
LSU Fan
Gonzales, La
Member since Dec 2006
372 posts
| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 7:18 am to kingbob)
kingbob
I know Jesus would not support abortion. I was trying to make the original poster think about it for him or herself. Maybe this would inspire someone to read the bible and ask God for guidance through this discussion.
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CITWTT
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 7:30 am to RCDfan1950)
It is an acronym of my name on it that got into my head byway of a friend one day. CajunInTheWrongTigertown (aka Clemson SC which I endured for three years)was it.
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udtiger
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 7:53 am to lsu480)
Jesus did not demand government steal from the rich and give to the poor. He tried to convince the rich to give of themselves, and for people to VOLUNTARILY help their fellow man.
BIG difference.
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Tigah in the ATL
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20654 posts
| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 7:59 am to Gmorgan4982)
So far in this thread we have...
Atheist D's & R's throwing their poop at the crowd.
As expected, the taken-as-fact Camel & needle = Jerusalem gate. This is a possible explanation, hardly a definitive one, except as wished-for by the wealthy (us).
"We give more" by the R's. I can only guess this is due to church giving, which is hardly the same as poor-giving, but ok. I know where church budgets go & they're mostly to the church itself.
No real theological discussion of what wealth means to a Christian. If this does not trouble you as a Christian, you haven't thought about it deeply enough.
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Ford Frenzy
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 9:37 am to lsu480)
didn't Jesus appreciate hard work? Doubt he'd be democrat either
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Tigah in the ATL
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/9/12 at 10:52 am to Ford Frenzy)
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Jesus appreciate hard work? Doubt he'd be democrat either
Is Democrats don't work the new form of Ni$%^# jokes? Because other than that I can't see where this thought process would come from.
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Ford Frenzy
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| re: How can Christians be Republican when Jesus was all for helping the poor? (Posted on 4/10/12 at 2:23 pm to Tigah in the ATL)
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Is Democrats don't work the new form of Ni$%^# jokes? Because other than that I can't see where this thought process would come from
I know a lot more democrats that sit at home and feed off the government trough than republicans that do the same
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