The Passion of the Christ: The Key to a Republican Landslide

Men's News Daily ^ | March 11, 2004 | Bruce Walker

[Joy Angela]

>>"Jesus gave us a wonderful message through the movie this thread is talking about, in forgiving those who did such unspeakable things to Him. You've never even met Kerry, do you think He would be pleased that you hold such bitterness in your heart for another over politics?"<<

I saw the movie, and it made me re-examine the way I view the scripture.

When Christ said "Forgive them for they know not what they are doing." It could be possible that at that moment, Christ asked God to forgive us, and God who loved His Son, did so.

Each beating that Christ endured symbolized our sins, and he took our sins upon himself, bearing the pain and the injustice so that he could mediate between us and God.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

I couldn't agree more, I had the exact same experience, let us not deevolve into embittered partisan attack dogs, and let go of our hate, no matter how hard that is.

The Demos practically corner the market on hate. Lets let them own it! Come election time that will only help us. We can beat the likes of John Kerry on the issues...easily, without resorting to malicous spite. You are right, if Jesus can forgive the guy hammering a nail into his hand, we can at least forgive the Democrates for lying about us.

[Salvation]

Light your candle!

And DON"T hide it under a bushel basket!

[franky]

The assumption is not far from wrong.

I am sure there are more agnostics and athiests in the liberal camp than in the conservative camp.

As much as we are all sinners, satan surely found a home in the Democratic Pary. Otherwise abortion and gay rights would not be an issue. The Deomcrats have an open door policy to these groups and their agendas

[franky]

I could see a Bush commercial with him saying, "I saw The Passion of The Christ and loved it. If you did, vote for me.

Without a doubt a winning campaign statment based on the demograpics of the less than 50% who vote. It could get people out who have not voted in years.

[Ohioan]

If you want to see the Republican party tap into spiritual strength as well as the fundamental Conservatism of much of America, you need to insist that Karl Rove go. Rove is the fly in the ointment. He simply does not understand the context of issues. He suffers from a severe form of tunnel vision, and would only superficially even begin to grasp what you are discussing. (See Karl Rove--Dysron, Quack Or Mole?, for a preliminary assessment of Rove's analytical ability.)

William Flax

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Do you think all those murdered babies he has killed by his bloodthirsty votes might hold a twinge of bitterness for the lives and simple pleasures that were forever stolen from them?

No, not if they are in heaven as you believe with Jesus.

Sure. I am quite bitter about the enemies of my country, my Church, my people, my family and my God.

Doesn't make your emotional response wise, productive, or Christian.

[Salvation]

**President Bush should fight this campaign on religious faith, and he should fight it in a way that shows just how intolerant and bigoted Leftists are about religion.**

Great perspective!

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Nice try, I'm not upset, and didn't mean to convey any emotion at all.

I'm disappointed that a number of posters on the otherhand are excusing their own bitterness and anger, even in the face of talking about this movie about Jesus, who's message runs directly contrary to that emotion. I'm telling you this because on the topic of Christianity, using the method of bitterness and anger in order to accomplish your worthy goal of eliminating abortion is dangerous because it seperates you from God's love, and in the long run unproductive because you turn people off with such rhetoric.

Just take a lesson from Howard Dean's implosion, you are trying to win elections for Bush, but Bitterness only sells to the hard core minority, which doesn't even win primaries.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Well, let's all just be milquetoast, lukewarm little whisperers and throw flowers to our enemies. How about a great big group hug

Obviously this is a difficult concept for you to grasp, but nobody ever said being a Christian is easy. I am often tempted to hate my enemies. What am I saying? I often HATE my enemies. Its very easy, however no matter how righteous I am convinced my cause is, hatred is never right. That's the polar opposite of Jesus' message. We have to have trust in Him that he can settle the Judicial activism that found the right to abortion, its very very hard, the only thing I can suggest is to actually pray for wisdom and guidance and strength on the issue. You can't wield the power of evil to suit your own gains. No one can. That is the Devil's best trick. It only ends up eating you up. Like the aforementioned Dean. Look at the anti abortion protestors who killed doctors? I am quite certain they had the noblest of intentions in saving the unborn, but look what HATE did for them? Not only did they destroy their lives, it gave the proabortion media talking points till the end of time. It is used to humiliate prolifers and that is undoubtedly the evil their embraced.

NOTHING can separate us from God's infinite love.

Its funny you should say that, its actually quite easy to seperate ourselves from God, and hatred is the key.

Here's a sidepoint for you, you don't need to be milquetoast or stick flowers in guns, but here's a novel suggestion; try sticking to emotionless statistics and hard issues! The people you want to help win elections by convincing them find that amazingly appealing rather than frothing at the mouth screeching.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Kinda touchy aren't you? Sure is a different tune than you were singing just a couple days ago when I exposed the antiChristian bigot and you were my friend. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1095743/posts?page=201#201

Your Mr. Spock, emotionless model of human persuasion would be very effective if we were all robots. But we are not.

Tell me about it, which is all the more reason why people need to have better control over their emotions than you; Sure. I am quite bitter about the enemies of my country, my Church, my people, my family and my God.

Perhaps, as a robot, you would not have facial features and, thus, would not be able to self-righteously look down your nose at other people.

See how mean spirited and hateful you sound? This is SO immature, and its another perfect example of how you've lost control. I've said nothing that deservers this personal attack, but you've lost control. Its not to late to turn away from your hate, you're obviously a good person who cares very much for Christianity or you wouldn't post here, but you really need to understand its alot more than a binary political party system

I bet it was bringing up the abortion murdering doctors...that is kind of TKO in the doctrine of anger you are sellin'. Boo-ya.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Now your just going complete nonlinear in your name calling. How many times in this post did you insult me? I got bored and lost track, it was wall to wall insults. I have to say evoking such emotion for....nothing is pretty funny.

Once again proving my point in spades about your lack of control of your anger. I was right about you from the get-go, just as I had the anti-Christian spammer pegged as well. I know you will continually claim you don't see your problem, and frankly your hyperdefensiveness is a bit tiresome, so do whatever you think serves God best and have a nice day.