Why Christian Americans
( and all other citizens who value morality )
belong in
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| "With a good conscience our only sure reward,
with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own." |
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" Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast; tell my people of their
sins! Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple
every day and are so delighted to hear the reading of my laws - just as though they would obey them - just as though they don't despise the commandments of their God!
How anxious they are to worship correctly; oh, how they love
the Temple services! ; ' We have fasted before you,'
they say. ' Why aren't you impressed? Why don't
you see our sacrifices? Why don't you hear our prayers?
We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it! '
"When I, the Messiah, shall come in glory, and all the angels with me, then I
shall sit upon my throne of glory. And all the nations shall be gathered
before me. And I will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep
from the goats, and place the sheep at my right hand, and the goats at
my left.
Here are more prophetic passages that may well have inspired policies promoted by America's Democratic Party when it was at its best and most liberal stage: To help the poor is to honor God." and he pays wonderful interest on your loan!" | |||
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President Johnson also appointed the first African American to the Supreme Court, the giant Justice Thurgood Marshall. What a contrast to Justice Clarence Thomas, whom President Ronald Reagan had appointed to Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1982, and whom President George H. W. Bush nominated to fill the seat vacated on the Supreme Court by the retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1991 ! | |
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"First to feel his wrath will be the elders and the princes,
for they have defrauded the poor. They have filled their
barns with grain extorted from the helpless peasants."
What a contrast there is between the "Christian Coalition" of today and the Bible! This Coalition promulgates the view of their coalition partner, the Republican Party, that the well-to-do friends and supporters of this politico-religious coalition have only honest labor to thank for their wealth, while the poor have only themselves to blame for their misery. But the Bible constantly blames the woes of the poor on those merchants, landlords, judges, legislators, princes,and even on clerics and "haughty women", for depriving the poor and the weak of that to which they are entitled! And it expects the well-to-do oppressors of the poor, not their helpless victims to stop and to repair these injustices.
Once preachers have translated the Bible from the ancient languages into modern ones, their job isn't over. Good preachers owe it to us to show the relevance of the Bible to our own time and today's world, by applying what was said of ancient circumstances to the here and now. If Zechariah were preaching in America today, I believe he would he would be saying "Stop oppressing welfare mothers and children; stop oppressing minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the uninsured and the underpaid (poor)"? { 1 John 3:17-29 } " If someone who is supposed to be a Christian has money enough to live
well, and sees a brother in need and won't help him - how can God's love
be within him? Little children, let us stop just saying
we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions. Then
we will know for sure, by our actions, that we are on God's side, and our
consciences will be clear, even when we stand before the Lord.
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The connection between the "New Deal" and the "New Testament": Many people may have heard of "the Social Gospel" and / or "the Social Creed", but few are aware of its relationship to the policies promoted by the Democratic Party throughout most of the 20th century. To get an idea of that impact, simply read the manifesto proclaimed in 1908 by one the 33 Christian denominations which came together to form "The Federal Council of Churches in the early 20th century.
Your homework assignment now is to determine where F.D.R. got the idea to call his vision for the future of America "The New Deal". Could it have anything to do with the fact that the word "testament", as in "New Testament" means "pact", "agreement", or "deal"? F.D.R.'s fascist enemies surely didn't have Jesus in mind when they refered to it as "the Jew Deal", but perhaps there was more truth in that name than they knew. LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/SocialGospel.htm and/or LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/SocialCreed.htm In 2005, the following letter from President F. D. R. to a prominent clergyman of his day was discovered: September 24, 1935 |
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"Though there is good evidence that Marx actually lifted this little ditty from the Torah (an important part of the Old Testament), it has become recognized as perhaps the pre-eminent motto of Communism. Everyone has heard of "guilt by association". In this case conservatives reject the teaching of the bible because they associate that teaching in their minds with Karl Marx, while ignoring the fact that Boortz himself recognizes in the passage above that Marx stole the very core principle of his philosophy from the Bible! |
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Here is what Jimmy Carter's New Testament namesake said about the importance of what we do about our beliefs, as opposed to what we profess to believe: " But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act __they will be blessed in their doing. If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world". . .
"You will be judged on whether or not you are doing what
Christ wants you to. So watch what you do and what you
think; for there will be no mercy to those who have shown no mercy.
But if you have been merciful, then God's mercy toward
you will win out over his judgment against you. Dear
brothers, what's the use of saying that you have faith and are
Christians if you aren't proving it by helping others?
Will that kind of faith save anyone?
" Look here, you rich men, now is the time to cry and groan with anguished grief because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you. Your wealth is even now rotting away, and your fine clothes are becoming mere moth-eaten rags. The value of your gold and silver is dropping fast, yet it will stand as evidence against you and eat your flesh like fire. That is what you have stored up for yourselves to receive on that coming day of judgment. For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. Their cries have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have spent your years here on earth having fun, satisfying your every whim, and now your fat hearts are ready for the slaughter. You have condemned and killed good men who had no power to defend themselves against you." | |
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"Woe to unjust judges and legislators," says the Lord, "so that there is no justice for the poor, the widows, and orphans. Yes, it is true that they even rob the widows and fatherless children. "Oh, what will you do when I visit you in that day when I send desolation upon you from a distant land? To whom will you turn then for your help? Where will your treasures be safe? I will not help you; you will stumble along as prisoners or lie among the slain."
Maybe these scriptures have nothing to do with the many
decisions which mayors, governors, presidents, judges,
and legislators make which pile even more misery on the
already difficult lives of people on welfare through no
fault of their own. Maybe "welfare mothers" aren't
the same as the bible "widows", because the men who are not
supporting them are still alive. And maybe the children
of these welfare mothers are not the same as "fatherless
children" of the bible, since their fathers are still alive. But maybe they are the same in God's eyes, in which
case the warnings of the great prophets like Isaiah and
Zechariah do apply in our day - and not only to
those in power who mistreat these poor women and children,
- but even to those who support such public officials
by voting them into office! " He who loves money shall never have enough. The foolishness of thinking that wealth brings happiness! The more you have, the more you spend, right up to the limits of your income. So what is the advantage of wealth - except perhaps to watch it as it runs through your fingers! The man who works hard sleeps well whether he eats little or much, but the rich must worry and suffer insomnia." | |
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Explore many more reason to Thank God for Liberal Democrats !
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Then I, the King, shall say to
those at my right, "Come, blessed of my Father, into
the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.
For I was hungry and you fed me;
I was thirsty and you gave me water;
I was a stranger and you invited me into your homes;
naked and you clothed me; sick and in prison,
and you visited me."