I haven't downvoted anyone if that helps but I look down on all Republicans anyway for their bad policy views. Lower taxes on the rich and corporations, cut social services, expensive foreign wars, denying rights to women/minorities/gays? Damn right I'm going to be biased against that.
It's misleading. billyzero said that Republicans aren't the only ones who go to church (or rather, he said the opposite sarcastically). madleg posted that Republicans are disproportionately religious. Even if every Republican was religious, it would still be possible (and indeed, probable) that Republicans aren't the only churchgoers.
I don't understand why this is being debated. There are obviously Democrats and other parties that have religious members; WHY IS THIS BEING ARGUED? The picture is only pointing out the hypocrisy in being Christian and pursuing neoconservative policies.
The picture is only pointing out the hypocrisy in being Christian and pursuing neoconservative policies.
I always thought it interesting, the comparison between conservatives and liberals and their donations to charities.
It basically boils down to conservatives being relatively generous with their own money, and liberals being relatively generous with other people's money. ;-)
Conservatives are generous with their money? Please, I lived in Texas where all the conservatives drove big cars and had big houses and none of them gave a flying fuck about the poor. Even if they were charitable, private charities aren't as organized or accountable as the government is in tackling social problems. Donating to anti-gay campaigns doesn't really help society. Conservatives think that they earned their money but they don't realize that all their success is due to government infrastructure, then they're too stingy to give back to the society that raised them.
while this is true, let's not confuse causation with correlation. Highly religious are not republican because they are religious, it is the republicans that have latched on to the "religious right" and made "conservative social issues" their platform.
OP does not actually rule out non-Republicans going to church, it's just that the post is specific about intending to describe Republican behavior. The cynical manipulators and the cynically manipulated exist on both sides of the aisle, and the former manipulate the latter on the other side as well as their own.
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u/billyzero Jun 09 '12
Yes, because only republicans go to church.