FOX News Pastor: Democrats Are "Increasingly Becoming a Godless Party"

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/12/10/fox-news-pastor-democrats-are-increasingly-becoming-a-godless-party/

FOX News Pastor: Democrats Are “Increasingly Becoming a Godless Party”
By Hemant Mehta, December 10, 2018

Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, recently complained to an audience about how conservatives were often swayed by their pastors, making it more difficult for Democrats to make any case for their side.

He’s right about that. If you’re not guided by reason, then reason will never persuade you. If you believe same-sex marriage is wrong because God forbids it, you’re not about to change your mind based on what other people say. It’s why a pastor ranting about abortion will persuade more evangelicals to vote for Republicans even if Democratic policies in favor of comprehensive sex education and free/accessible contraception lower the abortion rates.

So Perez was making a solid point. Democrats have a huge hurdle to overcome if they want to appeal to those voters.

Over the weekend, Pastor Robert Jeffress, one of Donald Trump‘s most vocal white evangelical supporters, made an appearance on FOX News to talk about those remarks. And Jeffress, true to form, claimed Perez’s words were some sort of attack on Christians because Democrats were obviously “godless.”

Emphasis added.

[Guppy]

1. At least we aren't the

Devil's party.

[Downtown Hound]

2. What makes him think we want to appeal to these voters?

Frankly, I'm sick of religion. It's not even that I don't believe, I consider myself agnostic. But I'm sick of people using religion to justify countless amounts of bullshit and violence in the world. People who are so convinced by their own "faith" that they will follow someone like Trump or George W. Bush when he says that God told him to invade Iraq are not people I want in the party anyways.

[ck4829]

3. My God isn't money or power

I believe in God; my God isn't a dollar sign, 'good genes', or hating 'the other'. My God doesn't throw people into everlasting torment because they didn't believe all the 'right things'.

But hey, that's just me.

[Mariana]

9. That's great.

Now, how do we go about convincing those who disagree with you that you're right and they're wrong?

[mitch96]

10. Dem's aren't Godless, just not THEIR God...

This "my god is better than your god" shit is the root of a lot of the problem..
If you don't believe in my god, I'll have to kill you...
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[California_Republic]

4. That is dangerous and powerful

Godless,
Disrespectful to the military,
Socialist,

That works in those conservative areas

[LongtimeAZDem]

5. He says that like it's a bad thing /nt

[C_U_L8R]

6. And Republicans worship a pussygrabber.

The contortions of these self-claimed Christians are astoundingly ridiculous.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Good for us!! I'd rather be the people's party!!

[MineralMan]

8. Thank goodness. The right isn't helping much and they love Jesus.

Or so they say.

[Voltaire2]

11. I sure hope so.

[gtar100]

12. More stupid bullshit broadcast to the masses

Oh, if only intelligent, thoughtful people were put before us in the media to give us intelligent, thought-provoking ideas to consider rather than more nonsense from idealogues.