Quote Originally Posted by b@d @pple
what is christianity?

A dangerous political movement dominated by right-wing conservative extremists and fanatics who use religion as a smoke-screen to intimidate, manipulate, control and hurt people and our government. They are bent on destroying our democracy and replacing it with a theocracy to have us live much like an oppressive country such as Iran where people have few if any rights and laws are dictated by religious leaders. They bully mainstream politicians much like gangsters to do their bidding and frequently take tirades when they don't get their way and make threats like in the Terri Schiavo case.

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There is a religious "movement" bent on destroying our democratic republic, some in this movement know what they are doing, others are just completely mislead. Its been around and in action in various forms for a long time. It involves many types and groups including the vatican, the right wing "religious" pseudo-christians, the misguided who want to "bring this country back to God", various uninformed christians who don't know their Bibles, and others. That being said, ABSOLUTELY NONE of that represents TRUE Biblical Christianity. NONE!

The principles of Scripture and of Jesus Christ for whom Christianity is named do NOT allow for force of concience in this context. On the contrary, freedom of concience, freedom to choose EVEN THE WRONG CHOICE is included. Any Christian that does not stand for that freedom is not a Christian in whole.