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Can't speak for cherry, but the RCC members of my family and friends (Very pious, weekly, Holy days, and yes some are lay ministers as well) that vote for dems do so because they believe their platform conforms more to the Beatitudes. Repubs are perceived as pro-war and oppose “social justice”.

The propaganda is strong with them and reasoning with them is futile. They shut down the debate when guilt starts to permeate their circular/hypocritical "logic"/world view by resorting to the extremists card then change subjects.

[potlatch]

I probably shouldn’t reply but I’ll say this...

Jesus gave us the Beatitudes - so you can’t argue with that.

What you call “propaganda’ are their beliefs. Your ‘reasoning with them’ is futile because they believe their ‘beliefs’ and not yours.

And - believe me, they don’t shut down debate because of ‘guilt’, but because they don’t agree with you and further arguing is useless. I have never once posted on the religious forums here because it gives me heartburn to see the useless fighting of Christian against Christian. I won’t say more about it.