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richardhutnik on 18 April 2013
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JoeTheBro said:
richardhutnik said:
JoeTheBro said:
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JoeTheBro said:
Um no. Why did you waste my time making me watch that whole video?

Did I tell you to watch the entire video?  I posted a very short version of it.  It was there for anyone who would disagree with my view to see and say otherwise.

I also want to note that there are people going around, claiming to be Christians, that have elements of that thinking in there.  You will see the post on forums like this, and also out in the media.  There is this view of "not punishing winners" that comes out over and over.  


How is any of that what the Senator is talking about?

The senator goes into tearing down government, and having everyone fight their own war.  Let the winners rise to the top and don't protect the weak.  Have a system where everyone fights for themselves and is free to take what they want, because they win it in battle.  You see this discussion come up in various forms, like in this thread against egalitarianism on here:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=158690&page=1#

There are individuals who believe this is what Christians do and hold, and also other individuals who end up claiming to be Christian who speak of this in varying degrees.

The whole 47% thing ties into it also.  Pretty much the idea that people who aren't doing well are there by their fault.  They are losers who the system keeps propping up and supporting.  The senator wants the system torn down so these people can be washed away and the strong rise.

You have Mitt Romney, for example, who you would ask if he said he was a Christian or not, and he would say yes, and he made that 47% comment.  Actually, the 47% comment was the flip side of the "We are the 53%" retort to the Occupy "We are the 99% chant".  The guy behind the 53% idea, Erick Erickson, professes to be a Christian:

http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/20/i-believe-and-am-thankful/

You're really getting things jumbled up. That's not what Christian Republicans think. Christians are all for helping out others while Republicans are for smaller government in this sense. You're an atheist Democrat, correct?

Go back to my original post.  It was that the views, in about any form, reflected by the Senator, are anti-Christian.  A number of modern views are embodied in that, particularly with individuals who end up worshipping the views of Ayn Rand, as you saw with Paul Ryan, when it was trended to trumpet how awesome Ayn Rand is.  People who claim to be Christians play with this view, to varying degrees.  Go back to my original point that it isn't Christian at all, in any form.  But you will have others who stick their Christianity in a box, and say Jesus really has nothing to say about politics or economics.  Such the individual displayed a degree of meaness on forums as you can see in the replies to this thread on my story that made the blogosphere awhile back:

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2010/03/this-is-why-welfare-sucks/

The senator in the game embodies the beliefs of Ayn Rand.  And that Randian views on anything is suspect from a Christian perspective:

http://www.alternet.org/story/155239/ayn_rand_or_jesus_christ_conservatives_can't_have_it_both_ways

http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=665572

http://www.equip.org/articles/was-ayn-rand-right/

http://www.conservapedia.com/Ayn_Rand

http://www.frumforum.com/ayn-rands-atheists-are-crashing-the-tea-party/

http://www.nationalmemo.com/ayn-rand-is-a-curious-choice-for-conservative-veneration/

http://chefsref.hubpages.com/hub/Ayn-Rand-and-Conservative-Politics

 

As for myself political?  I am a registered independent actually.  So, no I am not a Democratic Atheist.  I am actually a convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and what I write on here is based on what I see the Bible saying, and being appaulled that individuals like Ann Coulter write things saying things like Jews are Christians in one of her books, and things that mirror what you see in Bioshock Infinite where American politics gets wrapped up with Christianity, and people trumped winners and loser and so on.  But hey, so long as you oppose gay marriage, it is ok if you feel the poor are just shiftless and lazy and welfare merely encourages the vermin for staying that way.  And of course, Jesus approves...