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richardhutnik on 29 April 2012
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badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:
badgenome said:

So do the Dems, when it suits them (welfare, Obamacare, military adventurism, etc). Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush ever did.

Figured I would go back and quote this, because it was discussed.  How exactly is what the GOP does diminished by what the Democrats do?  If you want to argue that the GOP doesn't attempt to wrap itself in Jesus, you need to speak about what the GOP does, NOT what thew Democrats do.  If you couldn't do this, then you really had no business commenting here, because you are distracted from the point I raised, in regards to someone's comment about how modern GOP fiscal programs have nothing to do with Christianity.  Would you rather the point be going with that the GOP tries to wrap itself in the name of Jesus, or that GOP fiscal programs have nothing to do with Jesus?  Those are the two choices, which do you prefer for the GOP?

I wasn't taking issue with the idea that Republicans do this - they do - but rather the fact that you seemed to be saying that the GOP does this and the Democrats don't. And it appears I was right to interpret it that way, because you later said exactly that (you seem to be going a bit wobbly on whether you think they don't try to court evangelicals, or they do but just aren't successful at it). Sorry, but that is a misconception I find extremely annoying.

Also, and I'm doubly sorry for this, I'll comment wherever I please.

Want to know who the first person in this thread to discuss Obama and the Democrats and bring them in here, to which (after a number of posts) I replied to?  It was you.  You wrote this:

So do the Dems, when it suits them (welfare, Obamacare, military adventurism, etc). Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush ever did.

 

Those are your words.  To get discussion off the GOP and so on, the SUBJECT OF THIS THREAD, you bring up the Democrats.  I had later on said that the GOP does it more, because I failed to call you on distracting from the subject of the thread.  You did this.  What the Democrats does is irrelevant to the topic at hand here.  it is about Paul Ryan and the GOP.  What I am guilty of is letting you get the topic derailed.

So, back to the point raised, and you can choose to not answer it, as I would predict: Is GOP budgetary policy reflective of the wishes of Jesus in any way or not?  Do you care to answer that?  I will tone the extremes and ask you that.  There are some who will say no: