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[–] Runaway-White-Slave 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
It's sort of complicated, allot of Christians point to the "Sermon on the Mount", a sermon attributed to Jesus, and they say the sermon perfectly illustrates Jesus was; "liberal", or "socialist", or wtfe.... And that ideology is more prevalent in Europe. American Christians are more prone to point to the Old Testament and have more of a rigid Judaism/Jewish tribal law of God, his will, his character, and point to scriptures that essentially say things like "you don't work you don't eat", which is a good stance to have in a cooperative family or a smaller tribe surrounded by much larger more dangerous ones, was a matter of safety, couldn't be lazy, had to carry your own weight, be able to defend yourself and the tribe.
I personally fall somewhere in the middle, you don't have to work to eat, God made food grow everywhere, and if you're truly hungry, fuck who's claiming "ownership" of the excess. If someone needs something, and you can help them, and they're better than a total blood-sucking sociopathic psychic-vampire, you should help them, and maybe even help out the "evil" people sometimes too simply because God created them too and maybe your kindness can help win them over to decency.
What these European "Christian Democrats" don't want to look at though, even Hitler was a Christian and that's a fact.
[–] green_man ago
I was more getting at the idea of separation of state and how Europe in general is looked upon as the paragon of separation by US libtards. Awesome explanation though.