Conviction, Not Religion

There are religious reasons not to vote at all. A true Christian following Jesus Christ’s example would stay neutral when it came to politics. A Christian would not look to politics to solve mankind’s problems. History has shown politics is not the answer.
Jesus declined to get involved in politics.
Jesus' response was based on at least three factors: his Father's view of expressions of human self-determination, which include human rule; Jesus' awareness that there are powerful, hidden forces working against even the best human efforts at rulership; and God's purpose to establish a heavenly government to rule over the entire earth.
Jesus stayed out of politics because he knew that at a future set time, God would establish a heavenly government to rule over the earth. The Bible calls this government God's Kingdom, and it was the main theme of Jesus' teaching. (Luke 4:43; Revelation 11:15) Jesus taught his disciples to pray for that Kingdom to come, for only under its rule will 'God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' (Matthew 6:9, 10)
Daniel 2:44 says, "In the days of those kings [ruling at the end of the present system] the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these [man-made] kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite." God's Kingdom will have to "crush" earthly rulerships because these insist on perpetuating the God-defying spirit of self-determination promoted by Satan back in the garden of Eden. In addition to working against mankind's best interests, those who strive to perpetuate that spirit put themselves on a collision course with the Creator. (Psalm 2:6-12; Revelation 16:14, 16)

Jesus always did things God's way. Instead of choosing an independent course and trying to prop up or improve the existing system of things by political means, he worked hard to advance the interests of God's Kingdom, the only solution to the world's ills.

God's Kingdom is the real key to a truly happy world, and the message announcing it is rightly described as good news.

In order to help people make an informed decision about rulership, Jesus commissioned his disciples to preach the "good news of the kingdom . . . in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations" before the end of the present system comes. (Matthew 24:14)

This is the message all true Christians should preach: God’s Kingdom is the only solution to the world’s problems.

No need for defence, pro-life. Pagan and her faux feminism just got to me. I guess it was a feeble attempt at gallows’ humour, since hard times and cheap, easy abortion is going to mean a lot more abortions in the US. Abortion clinics are truly a growth industry. And counter-cyclical too.

What galls me about the pagans of this world is how fake their ‘devotion’ to females really is. Do you know that abortion is WITHOUT A DOUBT the largest cause of female deaths today? Millions of female babies are aborted every year in India, simply because they are female. Mother Theresa warned that abortion would be a holocaust and radical lesbian feminists like pagan scoffed at her. But abortion combined with cheap scans has caused a horrific loss of life, terrible. And not a peep from our pagan. Because those destroyed girl children aren’t ‘really’ human.

Pathetic.

So there you have it: abortion a growth industry in American AND in India. Ah! the joys of globalisation.

Like I said: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

All the best.

PP, Mary Cunningham was merely being sarcastic to push home her point which is the same as I have been making all along. I have tried to restrict myself to human embryology and the Hippocratic Oath and the modern version known as the Declaration of Geneva: Physician's Oath. I have occasionally added a Bible verse or two to highlight the religious basis taken by Churches.

" Mary_Cunningham
"Well, that was flippant and I shouldn't have said it."

Also defamatory, just like what you said before.

"And although Pagan has forgotten all the New Testament gospels,"

Absence must make the heart grow fonder, since, even when I get 'flippant' I don't call people 'baby killers' and press on...

" Matt, if you were at Mass last Sunday, it was the Sermon on the Mount."

Really, how'd that go again?

I may have forgotten.

Well, that was flippant and I shouldn't have said it. And although Pagan has forgotten all the New Testament gospels, Matt, if you were at Mass last Sunday, it was the Sermon on the Mount.

How Christ did treat the poor? He blessed them. He told them they would inherit everything. He didn't call them victims and the early Christians certainly saw nothing wrong with poverty. Yet modern day liberals seem to feel they fulfill their obligations to the poor mother,cf pagan's "poor single mother", by allowing--no, encouraging!--her to kill her child! How does that value her? Telling her that her child is worth nothing.

The Church's is the better way. But we have to be realistic. We have lost. Maybe for good. Anyway, this will be all from me, and I'll close this time with Paul:

I have fought the good fight
I have finished the race
I have kept my faith.

Never in my life heard Russ L. but obviously you have.

Go back to your coven and congratulate yourselves and your sweeties re the coming victories.. Or, if you need $$$$ you can retrain as an abortionist. It's a growth industry. (Or are you already?)

Err, Mary Cunningham, as long as you let Rush Limbaugh tell you to call single mothers who can't raise a kid under Republican foreclosures 'Nazis,' you don't get to say, 'Weep for the wittle ones.'

Ah but Matt, what about the babies not yet born? Are they equal too? What rights do they have? Those poor defenceless scraps, innocent of everything except inconvenience.

Holy Mother Church would defend them. But as we've seen--not very well. Especially against the atheist feminazis.

Those babies--died before they were born. Intentionally. And there are going to be a *lot* more of them.

The whole thing is just very, very sad.

"God is above political parties"

God is also above any and all churches.

"To base one's vote on a candidates religious beliefs is a terrible mistake."

Granted. But one's own religion is essential in political decisions. One's religion is what determines what kind of world you want to live in. Actually, a "candidate" is only a symbol of what world a political party will be promoting. You have to look beyond the stereotype the image of the candidate represents to the world their organization will be attempting to create.

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