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I don’t know the voting tendencies of the two groups, but let’s assume (for the sake of argument) that they tend to vote socialist, big government, loot my neighbor and give it to me politics.
Certainly, change their values.

Christian is a big word, and many who self-define as Christians don’t know what it means to follow Christ.

Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and Jeremiah Wright each claim to be Christians.

The Christianity that shaped the values of our forefathers was about serving the risen Christ, and recognized that the only way to know how to serve the invisible God was to study His written Word, the Bible. We believed in an unattainable, absolute, perfect God, whom we would never reach with our own efforts, but only through grace, through the sacrifice of His dear Son. But fealty to our God required us to try to live up to His commandments, knowing we would sometimes fail. Part of this commitment was commonly known as the ‘Puritan work ethic’.

This Christianity teaches that the Lord is our Provider.
Not our employer. Not our government. Not social services.

We are COMMANDED to work ‘as unto the Lord’, with the promise that our Lord will reward our efforts and provide more than enough for our needs.

We are commanded to be good stewards of what the Lord has given us, to live within our means, balance our budget, plan for the future, and honor our debts.

We are exhorted to help those in need from the money we have earned.

And we are forbidden to covet our neighbor’s possessions. If the Lord chooses to bless our neighbor, that is between him and the Lord. We don’t assume he is ‘greedy’ or ‘has too much’.

So we give to the less fortunate out of compassion, but we never take from the more fortunate out of envy. The latter is a satanic perversion of the former.

Christianity which allows me defraud my neighbor, to lie, to cheat, to live on money I have not earned, to envy, to judge the well off because they have more than I do - is not Christianity at all. Any who follow such a system need to return to Christ, regardless of their. self-appointed appellations. And if I fall short in these areas, I also need to return to Christ.