Posted on 09/26/2009 6:16:43 PM PDT by RobinMasters
The commonly referenced "God gap" between Republicans and Democrats is disappearing.
Polls released before the 2008 election demonstrated America's Christian voters are no longer synonymous with the political right: a George Barna survey showed born-again Christians evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama, and a Public Religion Research study found that even among white Evangelicals, touchstone issues like abortion and same-sex marriage weren't in their top five voting considerations.
If Christian voters share common morals and values, how is it that their voting patterns and priorities aren't more unified?
According to a new study, the answer is that Christians don't share a common worldview, their morals and values sprayed across the spectrum by differing views in a handful of key areas.
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Ping.
Too many of them think 0 is a blessing sent to rescue the poor.
Any born again Christian that voted of Obama was deceived or disobedient.
“...born-again Christians evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama,...”
Christians can be just as stupid as non-Christians in voting for the redistribution of wealth by government edict. Satan knows covetousness has always been a failing of sinful mankind.
Many did. They vote Dem regardless. Satan himself could run and they would support him.
In defense of Christians, they didn’t have much of a choice in the general election. The primaries are another story.
I agree that Christians are the core of the Conservative movement, but many still vote Socialist, for whatever reason. They are the ones who are dooming this country.
There is no defense for a Bible believing Christian to vote for someone that supports abortion unless they are deceived or disobedient.
I know a bunch of them who are waiting for Jesus to come and fix things. I may be wrong but I don’t think Jesus wants me to do that.
Knowing God’s will on abortion is not above anyone’s paygrade.
The essential difference between the two parties is centralized power versus decentralized and privatized power. There will always be Christians falling on both sides of that divide.
And the press has done a very effective job of demonizing Republicans over the years, so that a huge number of people honestly believe Repubs hate minorities, and poor people, and like to invade countries to steal their oil. So for many new Christians especially the choice is Dems who love poor people and minorities and don’t like to slaughter people for their oil, versus Repubs who hate minorities and love slaughtering people for their oil.
And finally there is this. Some evangelical churches at least have been growing very fast, winning huge numbers of new converts, and those new converts almost by definition tend to be Democrats. Having accepted salvation and Christ’s lordships, you see lives starting to change almost immediately, dramatically even. But your life-long political assumptions change more slowly, over a decade or so.
Could not agree more.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Apostasy sets in... just as prophesized!
“Too many of them think 0 is a blessing sent to rescue the poor”
I told a ‘christian’ Obama lover that I want to be judged by my actions not that of my government. He told me I needed to study the verse, ‘love your neighbor’. It’s confusing me, I thought my personal actions was what Christ was talking about in that verse.
“born-again Christians evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama” Maybe I’m missing something, but how in the name of heaven can a born-again Christian vote for a party that condones, upholds and supports the killing of unborn children. An abortion is the shedding of innocent blood, because no abortion can be performed without the shedding of blood. God hates the shedding of innocent blood (Proverbs 6:17).
They are the most conservative voters in America already, in fact they are the only group that votes conservative by a majority, do you really think that you are going to get 100% compliance from a group of people so loosely affiliated as simply being labelled "Christian"?
We can't force everyone to become White and Evangelical or even force them to quit being 18 to 29 year old voters, or PHDs.
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