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You Cannot Be A Republican And A Christian


No one in American life today proclaims their allegiance to Christ more
conspicuously than those who have rejected most of what Christ actually
taught: Republicans. The modern Republican Party’s hell-bent embodiment
of nearly everything Christ warned against has become so serious that we
have to call it out. You cannot be a Republican and a Christian.

Of course, it wasn’t always this way. There was a time, maybe even as
recently as the early 1990s, when to support the Republican Party was
not altogether evil. And further back, of course, things were even more
different. As Garrison Keillor once reminisced, Republicans used to be:

moderate, business-minded civic boosters and unapologetic patriots
who were the linchpins and bulwarks of small towns across the Midwest,
the enthusiastic backers of projects for the civic good, usually in
partnership with the town liberals (the librarian, the bar owner, a
lawyer or two, the Methodist minister, the banker’s wife). These
Republicans were uniters and diehard optimists and persons of
compassionate conscience, inveterate doers of good deeds.

Even today, there are probably some Republicans who still fit that
description. The problem is that they are for all practical purposes
invisible in American public life, and if their party found out about
them, they would be hounded out of it. If they dared to compete in the
lunatic talent show of Republican primary politics, they wouldn’t stand
a chance.

*The reason that you cannot be a Republican and a Christian is that
today’s Republican Party doesn’t appear to stand for anything but what
Christ strenuously rejected, like organized violence, self-righteous
division, and greed. To say the least, this is hard to square with
Christ’s teachings and example. I am not a Christian, and I’m certainly
no Biblical scholar, but you don’t have to be. It’s not hard to tell the
difference between who is and isn’t really a Christian, and Republicans,
you’re not.*

• In Christ, we’re talking about someone who said turn the other cheek
(Matthew 5:39) and that all those who take the sword will perish with
the sword (Matthew 26:52).

• We’re talking about someone who warned “judge not, that ye be not
judged� (Matthew 7:1) and urged people not to look for a mote in someone
else’s eye while they have a beam stuck in their own (Matthew 7:3).

• We’re talking about someone who said, “woe unto you that are rich!�
(Luke 6:24) and, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.� (Mark 10:25)
Did Jesus ever have anything good to say about people who hoard wealth?

I know that many of Christ’s teachings are open to interpretation, but
so many of the people who make a point of asking “What would Jesus do?�
seem to have no interest at all in the most likely answers. It’s ironic
that they have sometimes been referred to as “values voters,� since
their values are so devoid of value, at least from the Christian point
of view. Their main interest in Christianity seems to be an expectation
of being rewarded in the afterlife despite bad behavior while alive. And
as for their leaders, beware wolves in sheep’s clothing (Matthew 7:15).
Most atheists and agnostics are truer Christians than this crew.

The impossibility of squaring what Christ actually taught with the words
and deeds of today’s Republican so-called Christians is what makes this
all fair game. These people are hypocrites. These people conveniently
ignore most of what Christ actually said. Christ would scold and hold
these people accountable for their reckless and downright evil
behavior--and many of them, given a chance, would re-crucify Christ if
he came back today and taught the still-radical ideas he apparently
advocated.

You can’t have it both ways. You have to choose, because, today, you
cannot be both a Republican and a Christian.

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