What does politics have to do with religion

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Who has the truth? People on here demonize the the liberal party and claim their news sources are biased as if the conservative perspective is right in all things and apparently their news sources are not biased. I don’t understand it.
 
Who has the truth? People on here demonize the the liberal party and claim their news sources are biased as if the conservative perspective is right in all things and apparently their news sources are not biased. I don’t understand it.
people on here demonize the liberals over the liberal’s support of abortion and other issues the church recognizes as wrong.
 
Not only this but issues on gun control, minorities, race. This is overrall a more right leaning website
 
Not only this but issues on gun control, minorities, race. This is overrall a more right leaning website
gun control is not a right or wrong issue. it can be looked at both ways and many are in the middle.

what do you believe the right’s position on minorities and race is?
 
On a previous forum post, some conservatives strongly disagreed with the idea of white male privilege existing or felt that monuments memorializing exclusively black lynchings was racist. I remember someone comparing black lives matter to the KKK and considered them a hate group.
 
You sound like an independent, as myself was since I was 19. I am currently politically unaffiliated entirely and I no longer vote at all. Where did you hear that you have to align with a political party? The only denomination I could think of that would say such a thing would be the Evangelicals.
 
Not always. There are a few Democrats who are pro-life. But not many unfortunately.

Alas, the party platform has abortion as a key tenet. But I vote for people not parties.
 
It seems like the Christian vote means Republican party.
I am not an American but as the Progressives have slowly taken over the left side of politics there has been a world wide phenomena of Christians moving away from such parties.

Of course as they do so they help to fashion the parties they move to. Once upon a time in Australia the ‘right’ side of politics was Protestant and the Left side (largely) Catholic. Nowadays when you look for Catholic politicians they are predominately on the right. In fact they tend to be leaders of the party and traditional values. Leaders on the left side, while sometimes still Catholic are much more deferential to Progressive politics (religion) than to Catholicism.

I think a similar thing may have happened in the US where recently for the first time there were more Catholic Congressman who were in the Republican Party than in the Democratic Party which is something that would have been unthinkable only 2 generations ago. There does seem to be a steady move of Catholics to the Republican Party, especially among non Hispanic Caucasian Catholics.


https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/~/~/link.aspx?_id=EF9C91705EC24F04B6E8D1ECC120DBD8&_z=z

(Note : the Liberal Party in Australia is actually the main party on the right , contrary to American terminology).

 
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some conservatives strongly disagreed with the idea of white male privilege existing
does white male privilege exist in china? japan? korea? india? the middle east? africa? if a white male lives in one of these areas are they still privileged? is a privileged male in japan still a privileged male when they come to the states? why not?
or felt that monuments memorializing exclusively black lynchings
which monuments are these?
I remember someone comparing black lives matter to the KKK and considered them a hate group.
maybe they were reading the words of the toronto head of blm
and came to that conclusion from what was posted.
The co-founder of Toronto’s Black Lives Matter chapter believes white people are “recessive genetic defects” who should be “wiped out.”
“Whiteness is not humxness,” Yusra Khogali wrote in a just-discovered Facebook post from December 2015, according to the Toronto Sun. “infact, white skin is sub-humxn.”
 
I believe that white males are privileged in our American society. As for, the memorial it was in Alabama. I didn’t see it as racist or playing up white guilt. Comparing the black lives matter to the KKK is a little nuts. I’m not a supporter but I know enough about blm to not compare them to the KKK.
 
I believe that white males are privileged in our American society. As for, the memorial it was in Alabama. I didn’t see it as racist or playing up white guilt. Comparing the black lives matter to the KKK is a little nuts. I’m not a supporter but I know enough about blm to not compare them to the KKK.
I am privileged because my parents brought me up to know and respect right from wrong and I live in a western Christian culture which both learnt to create more comfortable lifestyles through knowledge and hard work and learned to deal with each other respectfully and with justice.

It has very little to do with the racist notion that it is the colour of my skin.
 
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I believe that white males are privileged in our American society.
yes, but it is not because of their skin color it is because they have had the most success under our system and have been in the majority. in china it is another male group that is privileged and they are not white but they are privileged for the same reason as whites in the states.
Comparing the black lives matter to the KKK is a little nuts.
not really, blm has issues with public relations. a lot of bad stuff has been done in its name. the core group may not be responsible but how do you know what is part of the movement and what isn’t? especially when you have party heads like the toronto chapter.
 
I disagree. I don’t want to start the debate against why I think it exists and why you don’t.
 
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Fine, I would just note that if you try to push your beliefs onto me through the state there will be big resistance to what I would consider a hateful, hostile act.
 
The KKK has been around more than the last five years unlike black lives matter. BLM started as a reaction to the police brutality. I don’t think BLM is innocent or pure, comparison to the KKK is a stretch. It seems like the conservative people see white people as more discriminated in this era.
 
That’s what I think is interesting. I don’t understand how two people think do differently. One side insisted white people are privileged the other truly doesn’t see or believe it. Everyone had a different definition on what it means to be privileged. Who is the right and who is wrong? Both sides believe their reality is true and right. They accuse the other being brainwashed by the liberal media and other accused one of being ignorant of history.

Apparently CNN is a biased news source but fox news is not.
 
It seems like the conservative people see white people as more discriminated in this era.
Conservatives can point to laws which discriminate in favour of others before whites, others cannot do the same.

What is done by others is to point to different outcomes and assume privilege and racism. That is a very much weaker argument which can be contested.
 
That’s what I think is interesting. I don’t understand how two people think do differently. One side insisted white people are privileged the other truly doesn’t see or believe it. Everyone had a different definition on what it means to be privileged. Who is the right and who is wrong? Both sides believe their reality is true and right. They accuse the other being brainwashed by the liberal media and other accused one of being ignorant of history.

Apparently CNN is a biased news source but fox news is not.
They are both biased but we can look at history honestly and oppose state laws for citizens based on race.
 
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I don’t think BLM is innocent or pure, comparison to the KKK is a stretch.
time in existence is immaterial. spreading hate today is the same as spreading hate back them.

the chapter head in toronto is spreading hate.

does that make the group a hate group? i don’t know? is she spreading personal conviction or party?

but if all you know is her writings, it is easy to compare the hate.
 
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