Ad hominem aside:

I don't think there is going to be much productive discussion between us.  I once thought as you do.  The way I now see it is that Democrats generally want to make the spiritual private and of no bearing on public life.  Republicans often want to make the spiritual into a civic religion and a formal set of laws. Neither position is Jesus', therefore neither can be mine.  Today's conservatives look a lot like Pharisees, and today's liberals a lot like Sadducees.

 

What could the GOP do to lose your approval?  How many deaths would they have to be responsible for?  How much kickback money?  How much gerrymandering?  Unless our righteousness surpasses that of the Rebublicans we will not enter the kindom of heaven.

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Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre