re: #74 SanFranciscoZionist

This is the part that confuses the hell out of me. These guys claim to be Christians. They also claim that Christianity should be part of public life.

How can you possibly square the idea that the state is, essentially, a Christian fellowship, with the idea that the state is not responsible for the poor, the widow, the orphan and the prisoner?

I DON’T GET IT.

I think they believe more in the God part of it than they do the Jesus part of it. The Old Testament “God shall surely smite thee” blitzkrieg stuff has just so much more oomph than that New Testament “Love thy neighbor” hippie crap.

I don’t remember if this was first said here at LGF or some other site I haunt (and I offer my apologies for the theft), but a very appropriate comment wondered why the religious arch-right was always trying to get the 10 Commandments displayed in public buildings, but they never showed the same passion about the Beatitudes or the larger Sermon on the Mount.