1. Fiscal responsibility. Be a good steward of what God has blessed you with. Stay out of debt!

2. Take care of your parents in their old age. Folks SS started as a program for widows and orphans and now look at it–out of control. It is our responsibility as children to financially care for our parents as they age

3. Continue to care for our communities and folks in need. The Church in the U.S. does a great job but we must do more to save people from the government welfare gulag. Every person we get back on their feet is one less ward of the state.

4. Each of us doing the little things each day to be responsible managers of our money to help ourselves and our communities–is a small step toward helping restore true liberty in our Republic

God Bless Folks

The scriptures tell us that if ye walk in the Spirit ye shall not fullfill the lust of the flesh. Every problem you have given would be nullified if people would learn to walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is a daily battle for believers, one that most are not aware of, but that Paul addresses in Romans 7 with the solution in Romans 8.

In short, as I stated above, we can not effect a permanent heart change in our nation without the power & life found only through the Holy Spirit.

Fight on!

I mean, surely they didn’t vote for Obama because they saw no real difference between McCain’s vote for the bailout and Obama’s, or that the GOP has become indistinguishable from the Dems in spending their money, or that McCain never hung the Fannie/Freddie mess around their necks.

I mean, come on, Jaded, how small minded can you be?

Snark….off

-exits

Translation: Christians, sit down, shut up, and move to the back of the bus please (except when we need you votes every 2/4/6 years)

How dare those wascally Christians encourage each other and not know there place.

-exits

The GOP’s just not going to win in the Northeast or the West by imploring Christian to do this and Christians to do that. The party is on the brink of becoming essentially a Southern party and that’s really unfortunate.

-exits

How silly the secularists are when 92 percent of Americans believe in GOD

And lo and behold 65 percent of Americans believe that the Founders intended for us to be a Christian nation.

Darn those stupid Americans and their perceptions

Now exits and sailormike not being a religious person myself the first thing I recognized about this particular diary was THIS ISN’T FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT CHRISTIAN so for you both to intrude on a diary with your bogus opinions of how the GOP should abandon the Religious Right is first off out of line and second not in keeping with the majority of Americans…..why not just go on and join the HUMANIST group!

-exits

And as far as all of the ‘those preaching tolerance stuff’ and something about the arts community in Sacramento goes, I have no idea what you’re talking about. I assume that you’re throwing some kind of canned argument at me, the relevance to my post of which, I can hardly guess

it reflects that you perhaps are not as erudite and well-informed as you believe yourself to be as I’m betting that most on this site wouldn’t view the reference as some sort of ‘canned argument’ but rather a reflection on news that was fairly extensively reported yesterday.

As for this statement:

I missed the part of my post which said that Harold’s diary should only be permissible on Religious websites

I don’t know, perhaps I got that idea from this statement of yours:

given the subtitle of Harold’s diary – Warning: This diary is intended solely for Christians – wouldn’t it be more appropriately posted at a religious website rather than a poltical one?

Please do try to be consistent.

As to the rest of your reply, Aaron covered the ‘freedom from religion’ part pretty well. If he didn’t, I would refer you to many of the Founders speeches and writings (specifically Washington’s farewell address and John Adam’s writings) to address the meme that somehow the founders expected/wanted/demanded that our political system and discourse be purged of religion.

You missed the part of the Bill of Rights which states that our nation needs to be free from religion

You are just completely wrong on this. Unless you can quote something that isn’t there.

I’m just expressing the opinion that the GOP would be better served if it were viewed as less overtly religious. If the GOP wants to be a viable national party it’s got to make it’s case on secular grounds, even if, individually, members are motivated to participate by their religious beliefs. Or it can just be a Southern party.

And as far as all of the ‘those preaching tolerance stuff’ and something about the arts community in Sacramento goes, I have no idea what you’re talking about. I assume that you’re throwing some kind of canned argument at me, the relevance to my post of which, I can hardly guess.

-exits

And the fact that Harold said ‘for Christians only’ is just a manifestation of the gestalt which Christians have been molded into. They’re so used to be told that their voice has no place in public discourse that they feel the need to quailify their religious opinions with a note that they ‘understand’ that they ‘shouldn’t’ be trying to force their views on others. Kinda like the unfortunate belief by the individual in Sacramento who was ‘outed’ by the arts community for supporting Prop 8. He found the need to apologize for his beliefs becase ‘they hurt people’s feelings’.

If anything, you should be thanking Harold for being cognizant and sensitive to the possibility that non-Christians might find disagreement and/or angst with his worldview.

Instead, as usual, those preaching tolerance the loudest are, well…the least tolerant of differing views.

Typical.

So, the next time you posit in a diary that life should be areligious, you’re willing to state right now that you will be ok with those who believe that religion is the foundation of a just society posting that you need to get out of your cocoon while they remake the world.

Just checking.