Voting Alignment: Christian or Policy

[Bruh]

Here is what Trump said about his policy concerning war in a speech in Mosinee, Wisconsin in September, 2024:

"I will expel warmongers. We have these people, they want to go to war all the time. You know why? Missiles are $2 million apiece. That’s why. They love to drop missiles all over the place. I had no wars.... I will expel the warmonger from our national security state and carry out a much needed clean up of the military industrial complex to stop the war profiteering and to always put America first. We put America first. We’re going to end these endless wars. Endless wars, they never stop."

Once elected, Trump changed his mind and started his war with Iran. As conservative Christian Americans, we are expected to go along with this and enthusiastically support the war, because it's all about loyalty to Trump, not about "anything policy related." Anyone who does not express personal loyalty to Trump is accused of TDS, which is regarded as a terrible crime - because it's all about Trump.

Will Donald Trump Tame the Military-Industrial Complex?

Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric about reining in the military industrial complex does not show the signs of a genuine commitment to crack down on weapons manufacturers.

www.forbes.com

2 million a piece and I get accused of being a conspiracy theorist for saying they want wars to continue forever to make money. As if they forgot that we were in the Middle East for over 20 years pull out and go right back a year and a half later.

 

[Bruh]

As I read Romans 13:1-6, it appears to be teaching that we should obey the law, pay our taxes, not resist secular government, and avoid any appearance of attempting to overthrow the government. Sounds like good advice for the January 6 insurrectionists and Christian tax resisters like Kent Hovind.

I don't see anything here that mandates MAGA-type support for all policies of whoever happens to hold the office of President. But if that is what this passage teaches, am I in trouble for not having actively supported the policies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden when they were President? Will obedience to this passage require me to support all policies of a future President Newscum or Occasional-Cortex?

Based on Romans 13:1-6, were early Christians required to support the warmongering and endless pre-emptive wars of Emperors Claudius and Nero?

I like this guy.

 

[biscuit1953]

As I read Romans 13:1-6, it appears to be teaching that we should obey the law, pay our taxes, not resist secular government, and avoid any appearance of attempting to overthrow the government. Sounds like good advice for the January 6 insurrectionists and Christian tax resisters like Kent Hovind.

I don't see anything here that mandates MAGA-type support for all policies of whoever happens to hold the office of President. But if that is what this passage teaches, am I in trouble for not having actively supported the policies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden when they were President? Will obedience to this passage require me to support all policies of a future President Newscum or Occasional-Cortex?

Based on Romans 13:1-6, were early Christians required to support the warmongering and endless pre-emptive wars of Emperors Claudius and Nero?

“At least 200” FBI agents dressed as Trump supporters were in the crowd on January 6, 2021. It was a government operation. Tell the whole story or don’t tell it at all. The lawfare against Donald Trump and his supporters is what goes on in third world countries

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/rep-clay-higgins-drops-bomb-newsmax-200-fbi/

https://twitter.com/x/status/1886861726207168886

 

[subllibrm]

That's incorrect.

We will know in November.

 

[Ekklesian]

Once elected, Trump changed his mind and started his war with Iran.

When he was shot at, then began to contemplate eternal things with the blind guides of White, Huckabee and Cruz, and became a Zionist believing he was some kind messianic figure--Hallelujah! (@Tarheel Baptist, see what I did there?) -- in God's Dispy scheme...

...then he changed his mind.

 

[illinoisguy]

Who said this?

"There is becoming a great influence, almost an insidious penetration of our own minds that the only thing this country is engaged in is weaponry and missiles. And, I'll tell you that we can't afford to do that."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January, 1961.

End of story.

 

[Sherryh]

I vote for the person across party lines. I did it for our sheriff in palm beach county.