Form-Specific Guidelines for Conservatives

[BelindaP]

Since we have the ability to lock people up forever, I prefer that route. It costs more to execute a person than to keep them for the rest of their natural life anyway.

 

[JimfromOhio]

Since we have the ability to lock people up forever, I prefer that route. It costs more to execute a person than to keep them for the rest of their natural life anyway.

I will submit whatever the Government decides. Capital punishment or life in prison without parole.

Wow... could it be that simple?

 

[MrJim]

Why? Because the Republicans haven't done squat to reduce the number of abortions. In fact, their lack of attention to social justice issues increases the number of abortions.

And why do the dems open up abortion as you call it? Because it actually decreased the number of abortions by providing birth control to people who desperately need it in Africa. Along with refusing funding for agencies that provide abortion in Africa, those policies also refuse funding for birth control.

The Republican party has people bamboozled with the whole abortion issue. They keep getting votes for it, but they don't do anything to stop it. They're taking advantage of all the social conservatives by paying lip service to moral issues without doing anything to remedy them.

So do you have a GOP icon so you can pass off as a conservative and hang around here to argue?

 

[PreachersWife2004]

So do you have a GOP icon so you can pass off as a conservative and hang around here to argue?

No, she has a GOP icon because she primarily identifies with the GOP. As do I. But carrying a political icon doesn't mean we can't criticize what that party is doing. I think the GOP is a dead party right now, but I'm still a republican in the hopes that the party will resurrect itself.

 

[BelindaP]

So do you have a GOP icon so you can pass off as a conservative and hang around here to argue?

Not you, too. :banghead:
1. You don't have to be a Republican to post here. You just have to be conservative theologically. Guess what. Republican =/= Conservative Christian
2. I am a Republican. I am what is referred to as a Goldwater Republican. Back before the neo-conservatives hijacked the party, it used to be progressive and stood for social justice. It has lost its way ever since the neo-cons took over and started spouting off about abortion and gay marriage as if they were the only issues that mattered.

I hold to the basic conservative religious values. I am not a neo-con. If I have to be a neo-con to post here, then this forum needs to be moved out of Faith Groups and into Politics.

 

[JimfromOhio]

Not you, too. :banghead:
1. You don't have to be a Republican to post here. You just have to be conservative theologically. Guess what. Republican =/= Conservative Christian
2. I am a Republican. I am what is referred to as a Goldwater Republican. Back before the neo-conservatives hijacked the party, it used to be progressive and stood for social justice. It has lost its way ever since the neo-cons took over and started spouting off about abortion and gay marriage as if they were the only issues that mattered.

I hold to the basic conservative religious values. I am not a neo-con. If I have to be a neo-con to post here, then this forum needs to be moved out of Faith Groups and into Politics.

I was thinking more of Dominionism

 

[BelindaP]

I was thinking more of Dominionism

You thought I was a dominionist?

 

[Izdaari Eristikon]

Hi!

I'm a:

• Theological conservative
• Social moderate
• Political libertarian

Like Belinda, I'm a big admirer of Goldwater. I'm also a Bill Buckley fan. Unfortunately, today's GOP and conservatives don't much resemble either of them.

I have no use at all for dominionism, theonomy, Christian reconstructionism or anything else that smacks of theocracy.

I display a Libertarian Party icon because I've been a member of the LP since the first year I could vote, and the first year they were on the ballot, 1972. My heart is always with the LP, but sometimes I have to vote Republican anyway.

I haven't switched churches (I'm still AoG), but I've switched my faith icon to Calvary Chapel because that way my particular AoG congregation works, it really feels more like a Calvary Chapel. Like them, we de-emphasize the Pentecostal distinctives (they've been called "Bapticostal", and it fits us too), and focus more on expositional teaching through the whole Bible.

 

[Albion]

I think that having a forum for Conservative Christians supposed that the members would be both Conservative and traditionally Christian, not Liberal Christians either theologically or politically. They have their own forum. But I don't perceive that most of us want to have a strict litmus test that screens every issue and demands uniformity on every piece of legislation, etc.

 

[MrJim]

Not you, too. :banghead:
1. You don't have to be a Republican to post here. You just have to be conservative theologically. Guess what. Republican =/= Conservative Christian
2. I am a Republican. I am what is referred to as a Goldwater Republican. Back before the neo-conservatives hijacked the party, it used to be progressive and stood for social justice. It has lost its way ever since the neo-cons took over and started spouting off about abortion and gay marriage as if they were the only issues that mattered.

I hold to the basic conservative religious values. I am not a neo-con. If I have to be a neo-con to post here, then this forum needs to be moved out of Faith Groups and into Politics.

I think that having a forum for Conservative Christians supposed that the members would be both Conservative and traditionally Christian, not Liberal Christians either theologically or politically. They have their own forum. But I don't perceive that most of us want to have a strict litmus test that screens every issue and demands uniformity on every piece of legislation, etc.

I suppose~~I can see conservative theology/conservative politics (even if I argue with them about it ), and I can see conservative theology/no politics (like my mennonite/brethren frineds); the conservative theology/liberal politics makes no sense and smells funny.

 

[BelindaP]

It smells funny because American evangelicals have been programmed to think that one can't be liberal politically and conservative theologically. There are many, many of us out there. But, we generally get driven out of this forum by folks who can't tell the difference between a political liberal and a theological liberal.

 

[MrJim]

It smells funny because American evangelicals have been programmed to think that one can't be liberal politically and conservative theologically. There are many, many of us out there. But, we generally get driven out of this forum by folks who can't tell the difference between a political liberal and a theological liberal.

It's amusing that somehow their kind are programmed and your kind are not..

 

[BelindaP]

My kind? What kind do you think I am?

I'm an American Christian. You could call me an evangelical or even a fundamentalist if you were to look at my theology. But, I threw off the programming a long time ago.

 

[MrJim]

My kind? What kind do you think I am?

I'm an American Christian. You could call me an evangelical or even a fundamentalist if you were to look at my theology. But, I threw off the programming a long time ago.

Your kind-Christian political liberals embracing abortion rights and LGBT rights.

Not bible related but just a guess~you're probably not big on gun rights?

 

[BelindaP]

Your kind-Christian political liberals embracing abortion rights and LGBT rights.

Not bible related but just a guess~you're probably not big on gun rights?

You know so little about me, but you think you know everything.
Actually, I come from a family of hunters. People are fully entitled to bear arms. I would add restrictions on idiots owning guns cuz there are too many people who are armed without knowing how to properly use a weapon.

 

[MrJim]

You know so little about me, but you think you know everything.
Actually, I come from a family of hunters. People are fully entitled to bear arms. I would add restrictions on idiots owning guns cuz there are too many people who are armed without knowing how to properly use a weapon.

my assumption is corrected

 

[ReformedChapin]

Hello Belinda,

I have some liberal political leanings as well. I am for immagration reform, better gun control and I am for strong social programs. But theologically I am rigidly conservative.

 

[BelindaP]

We need to start a support group.

 

[Albion]

As we can easily see from the past few posts, this is why the forum doesn't work well. Posters come here who are not Conservatives but openly admit to being Liberals instead.

They maintain that they are Bible-believers or Bible literalists or religious traditionalists of some variety, which they label as "Conservative." The forum was not, however, meant to be for political Liberals. We do not discriminate between Catholic and Protestant, and many of these Liberal folks seem to think that being a Fundamentalist or something close to it makes them theologically conservative, unlike those who belong to other (for example, Roman Catholic or Anglican) churches. This is the exact opposite of the purpose for which the forum was created.

If you are a Bible literalist but politically Left Wing, 'Fundamentalist Christians' is an appropriate place to be. That forum has no political side whereas this one does.

 

[BelindaP]

Ummm. The FSRs say that we take our politics seriously. They don't say that our politics are conservative. Your statement demonstrates exactly what is wrong with this forum. If it is just about politics, then it needs to go into the Politics forum, not the Faith Group forum.