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Paul Ryan talks about living by his "faith". One could wonder what he means by that were he to be president. Since he is supportive of a NATIONAL amendment on personhood, you could bet that he supports such a Dominionist idea.
Our public laws are NOT congruent with religious and moral laws, even though many laws blend with some religious laws. Mixing church and state is what cause settlers to come to the Americas in the first place. And the necessity of separating religion and government was deemed necessary for our country to survive and progress into the nation that it is.
Plus living by faith is an oxymoron for some ideologue like Ryan. He is after all a cafeteria Catholic or Christian. He only picks what is most convenient to him as a politician. While he wants to shackle half the population with onerous laws, he denies the dictums of Christ in the New Testament. And it is a testament about caring for the sick and elderly and the poor.
If he were true to the entire ideas behind Christianity he would support the "welfare state". Jesus Christ was after all the liberal of all liberals when you look at his message. So to deny that part of the Christian belief system of sharing is absurd and even amoral.
Do we want such a person so hear the presidency itself who in fact believes that punishing the poor is good public policy?
Paul Ryan is schizoid on so many levels it is terrifying.
dchill
(38,502 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Roman Catholics, even right-wing ones, aren't big on "Bible-based" anything. Sure, they might hold ultra-conservative religious positions, but those are based on "the Church's teachings" (a mixture of Scripture and the interpretations and teachings of RC theologians down through the ages, as endorsed by the Vatican). They're not likely to simply quote proof texts and declare "the Bible says..." as a basis for their beliefs in the way fundamentalists do.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)any emphasis on humanity or charity or, for that matter, the words recorded as the prophet Jesus's sermon on the mount.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)So is "living by faith"--that is, forcing everybody else to live by your faith, whether you share that faith or not.
The "faith in public life" is code for "We will legislate our morality and criminalize everything we don't like and make criminals out of those we can't control with fear alone."
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)"I will say and do whatever I have to so can I can get more power, and if that means catering to the rubes or eating $1000 a plate catering with the Kochs, then that's what I'll do. Praise baby Jesus!"