POLITICAL PARTIES like to claim whole groups of people as sure votes during the election season. Republicans and big business go together like peanut butter and jelly. Hollywood stars fall over each other to endorse Democrats. Ever since the days of Ronald Reagan and Pat Buchanan, Republicans have claimed to be advocates of the right wing Christian constituency -- a supposed voice of morality in a world suffocated by sin. However, beneath the dogmatic rhetoric and behind the sacrosanct invocations of scripture lies a party that scoffs at the central tenets of most major religions; in fact, the Republican platform disregards some of the teachings of Jesus Christ himself. Regardless of popular belief, the Democratic Party upholds more of the core beliefs of the Judeo-Christian faith than the Republican Party, and if they ever want to win another election, they need to embrace the policies they promote.
There's nothing a Republican hates more about a Democrat than his pesky predilection for taxing the people and pouring money into the welfare system. Of course, liberals do not believe the government has the right to take all the money from its citizens and redistribute it as it sees fit. However, in a country where 37 million people live in poverty and 11.2 percent of children do not have health insurance, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, multibillionaires should give back more to the system that has allowed them to become ridiculously wealthy. Or, the current Republican administration should combat this unjustifiable level of poverty with the determination it exhibits in matters of foreign policy with new social programs. A truly religious president cares just as much about freedom from hunger as he does freedom from tyranny.
Democrats see welfare as a matter of social justice, of caring for our fellow man. Surely Democrats do not worry about votes from the vagrant constituency, so perhaps Democrats really do feel a moral obligation to help those who cannot offer anything in return. In the same vein, Christians believe all people sin and only through God's mercy in the form of the blood of Christ can they be saved. There is no more Christ-like virtue than mercy, and Democrats systematically support a welfare system that is inundated with lazy good-for-nothings that don't deserve a cent. Christians know that humans don't deserve God's unconditional love, either. It looks like evangelical Republicans need to switch parties or continue to be the hypocrites that so many cannot stand. Matthew 25:41-46 offers from the teachings of Jesus: "
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