[DeweyCA]

Once again, there is more proof that the MSM does not portray Christians accurately. Sometimes I think that we live in an upside-down world where up is down and down is up. The MSM seems so intent on lying and distorting the truth. If the truth really became known, the US would become an entirely different place because people would think, act, and vote differently. The Libs and Dems survive ONLY because of the lies and distortions of the MSM. The mainstream media does NOT represent the truth or the mainstream of America.

[Personal Responsibility]

Wait, let me get this straight. If you go to church and learn morals, you are less likely to do immoral things? But...but...that's not what *I* learned in school!

[two134711]

For too long the working definition of a Christian conservative has been, in Michael Weisskopf’s notorious words in the Washington Post, “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.”

Funny, those words describe the Democratic bloc to a tee. You said it Dewey, we do live in a an upside-down world. Rod Serling was a visionary.

[MizSterious]

Oh, they absolutely do not portray Christians realistically. Over and over we're told, and in teevee programs, shown that if you're Christian, you're a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging ignoramus who abuses the wife and children, and makes trouble for everyone else.

Many have taken it to heart, and I see people repeating what they've learned from media and showbiz about Christians in casual conversation on the internet. I'm shocked at the slander that passes for "common knowledge," which, by the way, actually describes hateful liberals much more than it does Christians.

[Billthedrill]

That extra participation in religious activity correlates with 16 percent less welfare participation than the usual rate...

For three reasons - first, a discouragement of sloth as a moral issue, second, that church groups are more effective dispensers of help to the poor because they're closer to the problem, and lastly, because churches compose a social network through which you can find out where there is work when it's available, through sources that government does not have. The last two aren't religious points at all, they're cold, hard economics.

I have always wondered at liberals who on the one hand ostensibly oppose racism, sexism, and homophobia as "fear of the Other" and on the other hand practice a form of raging theophobia that is outright bigotry for precisely that reason. Weird disconnect, IMHO.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

As I recall, Johns Hopkins had (has?) a long running study in some western Maryland counties which indicated that church going Christians lived about 10 years longer.

Rarely is this mentioned in the MSP

[loreldan]

So let us sum up. Americans who attend church with greater frequency than their neighbors tend to be richer, healthier, and happier, less prone to commit acts of crime, and more likely to get and stay married; possible explanations include educational background and the influence of religion in withstanding worldly pressures.

We've found a cure for all the DUer depression, self-loathing, and unhappiness. They need to go to church!