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Politics and Religion: Do They Mix?
The reason for My Faith ^ | 7/12/24 | Chuck Ness

Posted on 07/12/2024 12:09:29 PM PDT by OneVike

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1 posted on 07/12/2024 12:09:29 PM PDT by OneVike
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To: OneVike

You can bring your religion into politics, but you shouldn’t bring your politics into religion.


2 posted on 07/12/2024 12:10:43 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: OneVike

Only black racism..abortion..transgender children and gayness mix with politics.


3 posted on 07/12/2024 12:12:19 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: OneVike
Politics IS religion for those who don't believe in God.

"The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything..."
- Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G.K. Chesterton

4 posted on 07/12/2024 12:13:20 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: OneVike

The spiritual drives the natural.

Either the Spirit of the Lord drives this nation or the spirit of antichrist. Depends on the spiritual state of the people and those in power.

Lately it’s been the spirt of antichrist (the engine of the Left) running the show.


5 posted on 07/12/2024 12:13:49 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To a leftist, politics *is* their religion.

To a Muslim, religion is their politics.

The two religions of peace.

6 posted on 07/12/2024 12:14:28 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: OneVike

When politics invades religion the way the LGBTQ movement became political and then invaded religion, then yes.


7 posted on 07/12/2024 12:14:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (It's funny that the harder I work, the luckier I get.)
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To: OneVike

There will be no talk of politics at religious functions.
= = =

But can there be talk of persecution at religious functions?


8 posted on 07/12/2024 12:16:23 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

But, when one believes in Christ and claims abortion is a right from God, then politics is part of religion, because all we do, and all we have should be guided by our faith.

Thus, a good Pastor will guide his members to know which politician to vote for. If he does not, then he is not properly guiding his flock.

Thus my politics is as much of me as my faith, for I do nothing political that is not controlled by my faith. Thus God is always in control.


9 posted on 07/12/2024 12:19:32 PM PDT by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The term “Christian” means nothing today other than a loosely organized segment of society that may or may not have anything-including spiritual beliefs-in common.


10 posted on 07/12/2024 12:21:59 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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So you don’t think it proper for a pastor to warn his members of the politicians who believe in things against God’s precepts like abortion and transgenderism for children yet they then want their vote?

You don’t think the church should guide them?


11 posted on 07/12/2024 12:22:06 PM PDT by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: RoosterRedux

There shall be no discussion of politics or religion at parties or family functions.
= = =

Well, just talk about the weather. OOPS Climate Change.

Or, that new resturant in town. OOPs unpaid migrant workers.

Or, I just got a new car. OOPs is it EV to save the planet.

Is any topic safe from morphing into politics in one step?


12 posted on 07/12/2024 12:23:03 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: OneVike

The better question to ask is “Can politics ever be separated from religion?” The short answer is “Never.”


13 posted on 07/12/2024 12:28:40 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"You can bring your religion into politics, but you shouldn’t bring your politics into religion."

I see that you still remember some days f your government school indoctrination. They are intertwined and inseparable.

14 posted on 07/12/2024 12:30:45 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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ME: There will be no talk of politics at religious functions. (Quoting your article)
= = =

But can there be talk of persecution at religious functions?
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YOU: So you don’t think it proper for a pastor to warn his members of the politicians who believe in things against God’s precepts like abortion and transgenderism for children yet they then want their vote?

You don’t think the church should guide them?

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ME again. I never said such a thing.

Imagine a religious function, say a Bible study, with the rule of ‘no politics’.

Then someone mentions some politican who made a law that sent a Christian to jail.

And someone says that is political discussion, and against that rule.

Or is it persecution, which seems very pertinant to discuss?

That’s all I said.

Now about ‘should the Church guide them?’ Define Church. A denomination with leaders, or the body of Believers?

Makes a difference.


15 posted on 07/12/2024 12:37:17 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: wildcard_redneck

You are correct.


16 posted on 07/12/2024 12:50:05 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Unfortunately, no.


17 posted on 07/12/2024 12:50:18 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: OneVike

WWJD? As far as we know, Jesus never said one word about politics. I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing it was because he knew that down through time, politics would be all over the map; occasionally good, mostly rotten, but certainly extremely varied, according to time and situation. He did warn us of the last days, but then, that encompasses every human condition, not just political. Down through the ages, Christians have lived through all kinds of evil political systems, which, of course, Jesus knew would happen. Knowing that, he still taught the two great commandments -— love the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.


18 posted on 07/12/2024 12:51:45 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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I don’t view abortion as a political issue. “Thou shalt not kill” is straight from the Bible, and doesn’t require a party affiliation. “Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek” is also clearly religious, not political. Religion is above politics, and I don’t believe in watering it down.


19 posted on 07/12/2024 12:52:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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small historical whatever ..group a , by their text, believes that they have been told to vo forth, subdue the land and make it theirs.
group b by oral tradition, lives upon the earth, as it was given them to roam and take sustinence from, so why own it?
group a thinks group b is nuts.
group b feels pity for group a penning itself in.

group a attempts to purchase, or trade, land that group b roams. group b states it cannot release land, because it belongs to the gods.
group a, irate, flustered, sez puckit, invades the godland, annexes it to groupaland, wipes out group b, and celebrates with a land rush for settlers, while praising their deity.

meanwhile, news reaches a farther off and larger group c, who prepare for the time group a arrives.

politics? religion? you tell me.


20 posted on 07/12/2024 1:12:41 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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