Posted on 10/21/2006 4:06:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
At a meeting of the House Democrats' Faith Working Group, a perplexed congressman turned to his colleagues for pastoral guidance. How could he counter a local preacher who argued that all of Jesus's moral teachings were about the world to come, not the here and now?
Rep. David E. Price (D-N.C.) stood amid the sympathetic sighs and "you can't convert everyone" comments to offer a new spin on an old parable.
The Good Samaritan is walking down the road and cares for a stranger who has been beaten and robbed, Price said. The next day, on the same road, another person has been beaten and robbed. So it goes for another week -- more robberies, more victims.
"How long is it going to take before the Samaritan says, 'Hey, maybe we ought to patrol this road,' " Price said. In other words, the lawmaker argued, there are some problems that individuals can't solve on their own. They require the resources of a morally responsible government.
As Democrats seek to reframe America's debate over moral values and close their "God gap" with religious communities, conversations such as these are blowing like a mighty wind through party circles.
.... issues such as the environment, poverty, war and health care on which Democratic positions dovetail with those of many religious Americans, party leaders say.
"It's not always pretty," Casey of Wesley Theological Seminary said of Democrats' fledgling efforts to reach these voters. "But the good news is everybody realizes the party has to do a better job."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A better snow job.
If you put a pig in a tuxedo, you don't have a gentleman, you have a pig in a tuxedo.
Hey, maybe while they're trying to spin this, they'll actually find God. I think what is going to happen is they are going to try to convince people of their belief so hard that they will expose what they truely believe. People of faith know the difference.
As long as the Democrat Party defends the killing of God's unborn children, they don't have a moral leg to stand on. Socialism is their religion, and abortion is a sacrament for liberals.
The Democrats down't have a "God gap".
They just picked the wrong god.
You know, like:
1. Real religious tolerance instead of religious tolerance for non-Christians.
2. Stop the taking so much of their wages in taxes so that they could do more charitable work with their own money instead of trying to do it with what's left.
3. Support the protection of marriage act and ban homosexual marriage for all time in this country.
4. Support an Anti-Flag burning Amendment so that others can't desecrate the Flag that their family members fought and died for.
5. ....
Well you get the idea. Unfortunately, these are things their base hates the the Republicans love.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Their god is social engineering by government rules and regulations.
They've got the Mohamhead vote.
But they won't get most evangelicals, and they're beginning to lose the Jews.
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They're worming their way into a lot of churches with the environmental angle.
Forty odd years of indoctrination in schools and by the media have primed otherwise thinking people into buying the notion the world is in danger and they need to be faithful "stewards of mother earth."
Conservation is a good thing and has been around longer than environmentalism.
Environmentalism is the true religion of LIBERALS, designed to tear down a strong America with the notion of caring.
There. I did my best to read between the lines, but I found most of the "invisible words".
Given that a significant portion of the Democratic Party spends most of it's time sneering at the very thought of religion and it's adherents, this is probably wise.
See, religion isn't a ribbon you can wear. The truly faithful do not express their devotion by merely putting a bumper sticker on their car.
For the faithful, religion is who they are. It is not something that can be faked. Their politics are determined by their faith, not the other way around. It is a result of prayer, study and personal experience not sloganeering and political expediency. Unless and until the Democrats figure this out, this effort will not only fail, but, it will backfire. It's like putting on a minstrel show, painted on black faces and all, in an effort to reach out the the African-American community. It just won't work.
Agreed, unfortunately many are deceived by the progpoganda.
Ephesians 4: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
The only way to overcome a "God Gap" is to repent and draw closer to Him. Dem's miss this because then they would have to give up their sins, (baby murder, sexual immorality, hatred of Freedom, etc.)
Isa. 59: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Well looks like these liberals are still in 'we are gods' mode cause "The Good Samaritan" is but a sliver of the Word of the Heavenly Father. Their "The Good Samaritan" act is always about taking from one (theft) and giving to another with the expectation of votes.
They can pray, in public, asking that
1. THE LORD bless the good people of Iraq and
2. THE LORD confound the enemies of Iraq.
Yes. The Good Samaritan gave up his own money.
"Given that a significant portion of the Democratic Party spends most of it's time sneering at the very thought of religion and it's adherents, this is probably wise."
How true. The Democratic party base might get jittery if they acted moral.
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