How politically active are you?

[Kristine]

I think you mean non pro-life is being pro-murder?

Oh and don't blush on my behalf.   I may be a 'cyber-flirt' every now and then, but I'm really quite harmless. 

I just really like genuinely pro-life people because they're a rare breed, unfortunately.

K

 

[paulewog]

Not rare in my church hehe

/me blushes at lots of things.

Oops, sorry.... yeah.... non-pro-life, LOL.... oopsies *edits it*

Yeah, my church is, er, conservative. And my family are all right wing radicals.

 

[Susan]

I'm conservative, pro-life, pro-family, but on some issues (aid for the poor, stronger penalties for/safeguards against corporate crime/fraud, the abolition of the death penalty) I differ greatly from Republicans and American Independents.

IMHO, Enron, WorldCom, and the like should be considered no better, and quite possibly much worse, than pickpockets and burglars.

 

[IslandBreeze]

Have you noticed it's not about being pro-life anymore? It's anti-choice now. They want to make us seem as hateful and awful as possible...why don't we start calling liberals pro-murder? I think it's a GREAT idea!

/me looks around for others interested

 

[paulewog]

I do! Just not to their face!

Yeah. They all scream, what about women's rights?!??!!?

So maybe we should have murder a choice too. Hm.

 

[Zorobabel]

I'm sort of conservative, but I also believe all human life is precious and and universal. Thats why I've never voted Republican and never will (they raise CIA and military funding greatly).

 

[A Sheep]

The alternative stance to "pro-life" should not be titled "pro-choice" but "pro-murder." If a person believes that it is not wrong for others to murder people that are out of the womb, they are not called "pro-choice." Yet, people that support abortion are called, simply, "pro-choice". . .

Anyways, I just turned 18 back in June so I am not politically active yet. But I am conservative, pro-life, pro-family, anti-death penalty(inmates have MUCH less time to hear of Jesus and become born-again); I think that welfare is a good thing to have available, for certain citizens(as long as it can not be abused too easily); I do not like public education so that is not an issue; enviromental issues. . .well, we do have dominion over the earth, so that is a point that I do not look at in a candidate.

So it depends on the qualifications of the candidate (i.e. their reputation, beliefs, where they stand on the issues, etc.) and not on their affiliation (or lack thereof) with any particular political party. Not all Republicans have the same beliefs, neither do Democrats, Independents, or Libertarians. It is best to examine each candidate and decide which candidate is more aligned with your beliefs on the issues.

Aside from voting, what are some good, legal, and Christian ways to be politically active?

 

[paulewog]

Chrisitans can be active in their government through whatever emans the government gives them

That doesn't contradict Scripture, that is.

I'm sort of conservative, but I also believe all human life is precious and and universal. Thats why I've never voted Republican and never will (they raise CIA and military funding greatly).

Then what is abortion? More people are killed through abortion than through the military.

And, by the way, the military protects, it doesn't murder... war is not an unchristian idea in and of itself, I don't think.

 

[IslandBreeze]

/me amens paulewog quite loudly

 

[IslandBreeze]

/me has startled herself

 

 

 

[paulewog]

/me thinks that "amen"ing is a very Baptist thing.... just like potlucks...

/me wasn't startled

 

[caley]

Originally posted by Kristine
That is why I vote.  That is why I write to my members of parliament on important issues; and that is why when I can, I help support a member of a party whose platform is God-honouring, so that he/she gets elected.  



Kristine 

Voting is an act of violence.

http://members.aol.com/vlntryst/wn103.html

http://www.geocities.com/thornton_46/reasons.html

 

[caley]

Originally posted by Susan
I'm conservative, pro-life, pro-family, but on some issues (aid for the poor, stronger penalties for/safeguards against corporate crime/fraud, the abolition of the death penalty) I differ greatly from Republicans and American Independents.

IMHO, Enron, WorldCom, and the like should be considered no better, and quite possibly much worse, than pickpockets and burglars.

IMHO, The American Government (the Canadian government, the British government, the Afghan government, the Iraqi government, the Japanese government, etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad naseum) should be considered no better, and quite possibly much worse, than armed robbers.

 

[paulewog]

What? Violence?

From that article which I skimmed over I read this at the bottom.

It was with good reason that Henry David Thoreau in his essay on "Civil Disobedience"

Henry David Thoreau was kinda... odd.

 

[caley]

Originally posted by paulewog
What? Violence?

From that article which I skimmed over I read this at the bottom.



Henry David Thoreau was kinda... odd.

The main reason I don't vote can be found at the very beginning of the second article:

1. My voting would be reprehensible.

I believe that it’s reprehensible to to take money from strangers and use it for your own purposes. The average person would regard this statement with bewilderment because he sees the state as an inevitability. He believes that nothing is certain but “death and taxes.EWe, however, know that there were other forms of social organization in the past and can imagine future societies without government. We see that the state is nothing more than those people who hold the monopoly on the acceptable use of violence. We know that they use this violence to take money from some people and give it to others. Is it not reprehensible to use violence to compel people to perform or refrain from certain activities? This is the essence of the law, and I am too good to use violence except in the most extreme circumstances.

 

[IslandBreeze]

So, Caley....do you pay taxes? Because, in your opinion, isn't that an act of violence?

 

[caley]

Originally posted by Cammie
So, Caley....do you pay taxes? Because, in your opinion, isn't that an act of violence?

I pay taxes, but only because the government will come for me if I don't.  Paying taxes is a way for me to avoid violence done to me.  I regret that my taxes are used for violence, but until the day comes when I won't be at risk of violence if I don't pay, I will keep on paying.

I read an editorial once by a guy who is along the same political lines as me who argued that since the US Government uses tax money to kill people, he moved to a country without a military.  He still has to pay taxes, but that money is not used for (as much) violence as US taxes are used for.

I disagree, however.  Both are a case of someone robbing part of one's hard earned money at gunpoint, one has no moral responsibility if that money is used for immoral acts.

 

[paulewog]

That all comes down to the definition of immoral then.

As far as i know, that Roman Centurion that got saved in the New Testament stayed a Roman Centurion.....

 

[paulewog]

Oops, definition of immoral meaning what kidn of violence you think is immoral

 

[laumelilu]

So this thread is a little old now... but hey, i wanted to have my say, and see who's toes I could tickle!

I am politically active (i guess)

I vote...although I've only been old enough to vote once. And I vote because It seems to be the only chance I get to have my say!
I support socialist parties and the greens. (ooooooo)

I have attended a few rallies on things that I feel passionate about (No war on Iraq, Freedom for refugees, Anti-Uranium Mining, and against a second nuclear reactor in Sydney (Australia).

I believe in peace and equal rights for race, women, religion, refugees etc.

The liberal and labour parties in this country are disgustingly bad (although I live on the bible belt of sydney where they worship the liberals feet.) All that Liberals stand for here are "economy and national security" and personally I think that is a load of poop. The labor party are practically the same.

Thats it from me....

Laume