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No, Dems should hold firm on the first amendment
Joy states that their faith is rooted in values like love, mercy, justice, and care for others. She appears to want those values to be more visible within the Democratic Party rather than drowned out by harsh culture-war rhetoric.
What she seems to be pointing toward is:
- A political movement that treats people with dignity.
- A tone less fueled by anger and contempt.
- A willingness to disagree without dehumanizing.
- A reminder that loving your neighbor includes people who vote differently.
This is not about turning a political party into a church. It is about encouraging Christians within the party to reflect the foundational teachings of their faith in how they speak and act.
In that sense, she is advocating for softening the tone, reducing hate and name-calling, and showing more acceptance even toward opponents. Christianity at its core is about loving others, not simply winning arguments at any cost.
At the same time, Christianity does not belong to any political party. It transcends platforms, election cycles, and partisan identity. It calls individuals, not institutions, to live out its teachings. No party can claim ownership of it, and no party perfectly reflects it.
A distinction must also be made between personal Christian ethics and the role of government: believers are commanded to love enemies (Matthew 5:44), while Romans 13:1–4 affirms that governing authorities bear responsibility for justice and protection. Loving enemies does not mean abandoning national defense or public order; it means refusing hatred and vengeance while upholding justice. Christianity’s core expansion model was persuasion and sacrificial love, even when later political systems sometimes failed to embody it.
It is historically true that some who claimed Christianity used political power, violence, or coercion, but those actions stand in tension with Christ’s own teaching, not as its fulfillment. Jesus rejected the sword (Matthew 26:52), declared His kingdom not of this world (John 18:36), and sent His followers to make disciples through teaching and witness, not force (Matthew 28:19–20). For its first several centuries, Christianity spread primarily through preaching, sacrifice, and martyrdom, long before it had any political power.
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1) nah, we need to get religion out of politics
2) none
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Putting religion in politics is un-American
There's a very small percentage of our population that purely aligns to Democrat or Republican. The big scam is that we're to be convinced that it's a binary and in reality we're all on a spectrum in between. But when our political system only gives us two choices, we're forced to think that we're on one side or the other.
Also, Joy Reed is not an intelligent person.
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Fair. Many are independent like you say but then are forced to a binary choice in the end. Thoughts on 2) though is applicable to Independents in case you have thoughts there.
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Complication is around multiple democratic policies that do not align with Christianity like abortion, LGBT rights , women’s rights
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No, you can't appeal to "progressive revelation" to discount, ignore, or flat out refute past revelations.
Paul did appeal to past Hebrew scripture. So did the Sadducees and Pharisees. You probably don't agree with their interpretations of scriptures because they're not in keeping with your traditions.
If nobody ever told you what the Bible "means," you would never come up with the Christian religions we have today. And if you were further restricted to the original texts as they were initially written in their originating centuries, you'd be even further from modern religions.
Here's a very light, fun intro to critical scholarship that's been pretty popular lately. The author is both a true believer and serious scholar. He's also a social media personality who is constantly being called out by the religious right, but he always answers in a calm, articulate manner, citing "data over dogma."
https://a.co/d/0anGWJLu