I can't speak for others who claim to be Christian as you know ANYONE can claim to be Christian, but it's by their fruits, behavior, conduct that you know them. OTOH can a non-Christian really determine what's good Christian behavior and what's not?
I still wouldn't legislate my morality over the morality of the community.
You mean like a community of liberals whose morality gives you a phlanderous, godless, God-mocking,immoral, excuse of a man like Clinton, or the possibility of a snide,lying, conniving, power-hungry, opportunistic individual like a Kerry for President, what about a community of homosexuals whose morality will give you same-sex marriage, pedophiles, trans-confused sexual identities, gay adoptions, gay t.v., gay movies, gay sex education such as fisting, the perversion, mocking and oppression of all religions , or how about a community of Hezbollah-loving Dearborn, Mi. based Muslims where Sharia Law morality would dominate?
Either you support and champion biblical morality in our elected officials upon which our system of government was founded and works best under, or be prepared to watch and say goodbye to the Constitution and the country the way it was intended, with all the glorious freedoms that resulted from it.
isn't political ideology enough for you? You know, how one stands on the issues.
You mean like the political ideology that gave us Communism and Stalin, or Nazism and Hitler , or ones that offer the world tyrant dictators like the Romans of old, or even now in some African and Latin American countries?
Pure political ideology will move to the extreme left or right unless balanced and tempered by the God-given principles established by God thru his Commandments and subsequently thru his Son, Jesus Christ.
He guided this country to greatness thru his servants, the Founding Fathers and other great men of Christian faith with the intent being for this great country to become a beacon of Light and Hope, and a witness to the world of his Greatness and Glory.
This cannot possibly take place either under a system that is at its core a godless politically based ideology or any system that has at its core a non-Christian based religious ideology. Christianity's practice and influence would not be tolerated under any other system other than the Judeo-Christian one that we inherited and were blessed with.
Elsie (courtesy ping) is the one who told me that rudeness isn't immoral. So did RobbyS (cp). If you want to say they aren't real CHristians, they'll show you the Bible verses to back them up.
OTOH can a non-Christian really determine what's good Christian behavior and what's not?
Yeah, I've read the Bible. I've been a Christian.
You mean like a community of liberals whose morality gives you a phlanderous, godless blah blah blah.
No, the community of conservatives who elected the person. How come those community standards you claim are standard aren't the ones mentioned when it comes to zoning sex clubs?
Either you support and champion biblical morality in our elected officials upon which our system of government was founded and works best under, or be prepared to watch and say goodbye to the Constitution and the country the way it was intended, with all the glorious freedoms that resulted from it.
You are deluding yourself if you beleve only Bible-believers are constitutionalists. I don't mind electing Christians to office, but I will never refuse to vote for a non-Christian.