Screwtape Returns: Taking Jesus Back From the Republicans

Neither Jesus,nor God belond to any political Party. The
Republicans campaign on traditional American values and reflect the Bible based morality much closer than the Democrats.Unfortunatly neither Party seems to live moral
lives especially in D.C.And the Party of Deception,Divisions,and Destruction (the Democratic Party)
seems to neither campaign nor live according to the clear teaching of Scripture.

A Christian cannot ignore the Gospel's message that helping the poor is incumbent on a Christian. Where the Libs fail to get it is that Christ expects each individual to do his or her best to follow Christ. It will score no points in Heaven for a person to vote to take someone else's wealth and give that to the poor. Christ calls on each of us to sacrifice and nowhere in the Gospel describes mandated income redistribution as the correct path.

Libs who've read Scripture will point to the parable of the camel through the eye of a needle as showing Christ's demanding action for the poor, but that action is left to the choice of the young man, not for someone else to take his wealth. Also they may point to the story in Acts of Anannias and his wife, who are struck dead because they have not shared all their wealth with the community. But their crime was lying about it. Claiming they had given their total estate when they had held some back. Had they honestly stated what they would give and what they would hold back there would have been no need for punishment.

Christianity, even though it thrived in faith communities of believers was about an individual's committment to following the Gospel and Jesus Christ. Christianity and being a true Christian is an individual committment about one's own life. Not a committment to making others live in a matter they do not themselves choose.

IT'S SARCASM PEOPLE !!!

From his website:
http://www.adamsweb.us/screwtape.html

C.S. Lewis realized that many Christians did not understand how the devil operates and thus often found themselves unable to combat Satan's devices. For that purpose, C.S. Lewis wrote the Screwtape Letters in which he wrote a series of letters from "Screwtape", a high ranking demon, addressed to his young nephew. In the letters, Lewis provides the readers with incites into the methods demons use to lead people away from God, distract them from what matters most, and lead them to Hell.

In the 21st Century, most conservatives do not understand the way liberals think or the strategy that's being used to defeat conservative ideas and remake society as the left sees fit. Because of this, I'm writing "The Screwtape Reports" which are from Dave Screwtape, a Democratic political consultant advising various political leaders and groups on how to achieve political success. The reports exposes Democratic thinking and provides you insight on how the Democratic Party is seeking to defeat us. It is also my hope that from these letters, we may somehow realize steps we can take in order to beat the Democrats, and save the Republic we love.

I do not know how long this series will go. C.S. Lewis reached a limit on the number of letters he could write because of the sheer effort required to think at that level. I'm certain there's probably a similar limit on thinking like a Democrat.

My personal opinion is that if Jesus were alive and "in the flesh" in today's USA, he'd probably be as obscure as he was in his own day. He'd probably be in some backwater small town healing the hillbillies of alcoholism, and would probably not even vote or pay any attention to politics. Today's liberals - and probably a lot of conservatives as well - would dismiss him as a religious fanatic, would look upon him as just another annoying streetcorner preacher.

When liberals hear Jesus condemn "the rich," they think he's talking about someone else. But many liberals are rich, and most middle class Americans and Europeans are in many ways richer and more priviliged than the rich of Jesus's time.

In my opinion, "rich" refers not only to wealth, but to the attitude that used to be called "the pride of life," i.e., the attitude of the ego that is satisfied with the world as it is, who is confident of its own imagined invulnerability and success and status in the world, who craves after material possessions, who has no sense of the tragic side of life, and who has no sense of the need for salvation.

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