Huffington Post: You Can't Be a Republican and a Christian

Well, that settles it then, doesn’t it? . . .

From Father Z’s blog . . .

Huffington Post Article: You can’t be a Republican (who hate and mock the poor) and a Christian

Posted on 4 August 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At HuffPo there is a stunningly dopey headline over a stunningly dopier opinion piece by someone named Larry Atkins, whom I don’t recall ever having heard of before.

Headline:  Why Would a Christian Want to Be a Republican, in Light of Pope Francis?

?!?

Here is the essential argument.

Pope Francis is for “the poor”.

President Obama is for “the poor”.

Republicans, I am not making this up, “frequently mock and hold in contempt the poor.”

Therefore,…

We should have even bigger government, which means that – in the name of Pope Francis himself! – you should be a Democrat or you are a bad Christian and, obviously, a bad person.

You have to read that piece.

Never mind the official Democrat promotion of abortion (the writer claims the Bible is silent on that, btw)….

Some people (Republicans) think that free-markets and entrepreneurship will help “the poor” more efficiently, more quickly, and in a way that protects and fosters their human dignity. Others (Democrats) think that money should be redistributed, in “fairness”, through the agency of a vast government bureaucracy.

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