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Have your church leaders ever (during a worship service) encouraged you to vote a certain way or ?

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I'm looking for one that is firmly for separation of church and state.

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  1. We absolutely have NO politics in our services.  I like it that way.  


  2. No.  We are just told to pray about it before making a choice.

  3. My pastor is a real wuss when it comes to politics.

    He won't say squat!


  4. No. My church does not discuss politics.

  5. Maybe I should pay attention next Sunday, and not sleep.

    Methodist.

  6. No

    It would be ok if they gave there view

  7. Let me guess....your pastor is a.....REPUBLICAN? Man, I am good. ;-)

  8. The Mormon leadership in Utah sent a letter to all Mormon Churches in California.  The letter was to be read from the pulpit during services.  It urged all Mormons to donate time and money and efforts to passing an upcoming ballot measure that will take the civil rights away from law-abiding, taxpaying, g*y Californians.  

  9. They had better not being giving out voting advice.  If they are, they are looking to lose their tax-exempt status.  That's a big NO-NO.


  10. Much like the current administration, one cannot lead something that moves backward.

  11. Yes...I was in a Pentecostal church and recently quit because they got mad because i said i would not vote for Mccain.  They shamed me for voting for Obama saying that he was a muslim and a black guy!  

    Since then i have been falling away and no longer wish to consider myself christian.

  12. Not in so many words, but they made their position obvious.

    (Unitarian)

  13. No. I generally don't listen to religious nuts.

  14. No.

  15. The fact is if they have told you anything regarding a combination of church and state then it is truly wrong. Just as my belief that business and government should not be combined. When you have all three of them combined it because the mess it is now and only a revolution in due time may be able to change our country once it passes the point of no return. Even democracy is not the greatest government but the government that recognizes individualism instead of forcing its controlling institutions upon the people. The three I listed earlier are those institutions and the more there are combined the more controlling they become.

    I am a skeptic and a truly religious person. I would call myself a true Christian such as Jesus or even Ghandi. The point is that the Christian religion could have been adapted in to many different religions but it has become a tool that enslaves its people as the tools of technology in the world. By these standards I believe in both science and spirituality but I would let no man tell me how to live my life but by my own standards as a truly moral, ethical, philosophical, scientific, and spiritual skeptic. I believe not in what I cannot prove but what I cannot disprove. I could guarantee you that if you were to break your chains and open your mind you would become wiser.

    I truly recommend that you study philosophy, science, religion, and virtues to satisfy your hunger. Only then can you make a good decision for yourself and the natural world when it comes to politics. I would recommend studying the great philosophers, Henry David Thoreau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marx, world mythology, Einstein and Stephen Hawking, Chaos Theory, Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, and any number of religious texts. Not just one denomination for the broader you view and the more knowledge you acquire the more satisfied you will be. You will eventually realize there are no absolute truths and that you must first know yourself. After that you will not need a denomination and you will rather want to see the world as a whole, which it is, and the need for a common goal for humanity.

    The best part is that I'm an Iraq war veteran and now I have taken it upon myself to be a real humanitarian and do not believe in war except as the absolutely last resort in defense of our nation. I thought I was Republican and now I am in the gray because there isn't just a black and white; Democrat and Republican. The people owe it to themselves to not become degraded to believing in a bipartisan system with only two candidates and two stances on any issue. I hope this helped you trying to change the world one mind at a time.

  16. Absolutely not and it would not happen within the church.  However, my church is considered liberal and open.

  17. As I church leader I have never encouraged voting for specific candidates or legislature.  I have taught what the Bible says about certain moral issues that occasionally come up for a vote.  The individual must decide what to do with the information he / she has.

  18. My Baptist church says to vote the Bible not your billfold. And there is no separation of church and state.

  19. No, our pastor has encouraged us to vote.  He says every time... "I would never tell you who to vote for, but you need to vote.  Just pray and vote your conscience."    Apostolic

  20. Yes. Baptist. Yes.

    We need to vote into office Godly men and women who will do the right things according to Biblical principles:

    Overturn Roe v Wade

    Exercise capital punishment

    Drill for Oil

    Protect Second Ammendment rights

    Outlaw the teaching of evolution in schools;  it is the religion of Secular Humanism

  21. Nope, in Islam we are encouraged to be moderate and see both sides of the issues before taking a side.

    Yay for common sense!

    May Allah (swt) lead us all in the right path and guide us

    Amin
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