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In all the churches I have attended I never had any Reverend, Preacher, Priest or Pastor ever tell me how to vote.
Oh well, that settles THAT!
YOU have been in EVERY church EVERY Sunday for the last 100 years! I didn't know that!
My mother was handed a leaflet by her priest as she was leaving her Catholic church during a campaign season telling her to vote Republican.
Now, my mother, unlike you , hasn't been in EVERY church EVERY Sunday for the last 100 years but it did happen to her. THAT does NOT prove it happens in all churches all the time.....likewise YOUR story doesn't prove it doesn't happen.
Many times within these forums, I read someone saying that it is OK to vote for something if it is based on logic and reason and from an enlightened mind or whatever interpretation of that you like while being told voting for the same thing because of my religious convictions is bad, or voting against it due to religious reasons is bad. People tell me that it's because "not everyone believes as you do". Why should I be "asked" to vote for something with which I disagree while people on the other side are apparently not being asked to vote for things with which they disagree because not everyone believes what THEY do either! I always vote my convictions but for a society that is supposed to be SO open and free, freedom of thought seems to be constricted FROM many of those on the political left.
Charles Sands
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I don't think it's wrong for you to vote your religious convictions at all. My opinion, however, is that it shouldn't be the only reason for picking/not picking a candidate. It's just like gay people picking their candidate based solely on gay marriage or black people picking their candidate just because they're black, too, or hispanics picking their candidate based solely on illegal immigration, or women voting for another woman just because they're female. And all of those people overlooking the candidates' experience to run a business/government entity/non-profit along with your opinion on how well they will handle issues that are important to you.
Obama said that as a person who has been "extraordinarily blessed," he is willing to give up some of the tax breaks he enjoys because doing so makes economic, and religious sense.
"For me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus's teaching that for unto whom much is given, much shall be required," Obama said, quoting the Gospel of Luke.
I have no problem with voting in religious convictions, but I do have a problem with stepping on other people's freedoms. If your religious convictions entail stepping on other people's freedoms, then I have a problem with it. Think about it this way. How would you feel if mass numbers of people were voting to ban your right to go to church (or to practice whatever religion you might follow)--because that was part of their belief system?
Obama said that as a person who has been "extraordinarily blessed," he is willing to give up some of the tax breaks he enjoys because doing so makes economic, and religious sense.
"For me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus's teaching that for unto whom much is given, much shall be required," Obama said, quoting the Gospel of Luke.
Yea well, when a person's actions coincide with what they say, then we're getting some where.
PS: I'm not sure, but I think Luke was talking about a person's responsibility. Those who have been given great responsibility...
I believe it is delusional to have religious convictions in the first place. My advice to any voter is to vote your finances and leave the rest out of the decision.
Remember our chat as I will get back with you on this.
Several years back in the R&P forum some one miss understood the the Biblical passage on slavery. I think that was the most I had read the Bible since I was a little kid. Any way...I will get back with you on this at a later day...but today...I have an appointment to keep.
Now if you would like to beat me to it...the search engines on the Internet are your friend. However, KJV of the Bible is where you will find where God say's that slavery is wrong.
Remember our chat as I will get back with you on this.
Several years back in the R&P forum some one miss understood the the Biblical passage on slavery. I think that was the most I had read the Bible since I was a little kid. Any way...I will get back with you on this at a later day...but today...I have an appointment to keep.
Now if you would like to beat me to it...the search engines on the Internet are your friend. However, KJV of the Bible is where you will find where God say's that slavery is wrong.
I would not say that God condones slavery. It puts in place rules that 'soften' it. But I see no where that God actually states that slavery is 'wrong'...while it does not condone it, it does not condemn it either.
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