A brief plea

[adderslj]

Folks,

I know many of you are very upset by the election result, but please bear in mind that "Christian" and "right-wing Christian conservatives" are not synonyms.

Thank you.

Comments

[oakthorne.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

All too often, we find politicians whose sole justification for certain intiatives and endeavors is their religion. I find this patently unacceptable. I could never be an effective politician because I have certain closely held beliefs that I would have to compromise in order to effectively lead a group made up of people who don't necessarily believe that, and I'm not willing to do so.

Frankly? Make laws based on solid reasoning, rather than "because I am a member of X Religion, and you shouldn't do that in my religion." If someone proposed to me that I shouldn't murder because its a sin, I'd tell them where to put the concept. Tell me I shouldn't do that because of human rights, etc, then we're talking.

Regards,
Joseph

[adders.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to wonder why I bothered.

I agree with you.

Not all Christians think like those politicians, which is point I was making in the first place.

*head in hands*

[oakthorne.livejournal.com]

No, no. My apologies - I obviously did a poor job of communicating what I meant. Our points were the same: I know that not all Christians think that way, nor would they try to legislate their faith over those they'd been elected to lead.

The point that I was trying to make was that anyone who entered a political position when he knew his own belief systems might not enable him to either lead impartially or would force him to try and overlay his faith over those who aren't interested in such are inherently unethical.

It's not Christians I distrust, brother - its politicians.

Regards,
Joseph