Politics: Biblical Reasons NOT to Vote Republican

I have a rule in all of my blogs now that if not enough people read them and another blog has to be updated, I would discontinue certain posts in that blog. What that boils down to is that this will be the last of the Republican based posts in this blog at least. It might find new life in my Good Wife blog at some point. Now let’s get to the introduction.

If you read my blog on The Good Wife, you might remember a post where I brought up parts of the bible and did a paragraph as to why this part of the bible means that you shouldn’t support Trump. Well, now I’m going to do this in this blog where I mention bible verses and bring up the reasons why one shouldn’t support Republicans as a result of that verse. All of the verses that I’m bringing up will come from the NIV or New International Version of the bible. This will not include all of the potential verses that could be used as I won’t be able to bring them all up nor would I know them all offhand. Now let’s get to them.

Exodus 20:3- You shall have no other gods before me.

A commandment so important, it is the very first one. Republicans often claim to support God, but often put their own interests and the interests of their donors ahead of themselves. The almighty NRA is often put over saving people’s lives by having common sense gun laws.

Exodus 20:14- You shall not commit adultery.

Another of the Ten Commandments, Republicans would be quick to say that Democrats are also guilty of this or, perhaps, more guilty. But there are enough Republicans who do this by getting divorced or cheating on their spouses or having sex outside of marriage, which many often forget breaks this commandment.

Exodus 20:16- You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Simply put, this means one shouldn’t lie. One of many bible verses about it, it is one of the things that Republicans are often getting wrong nowadays. They lie so much that you have to wonder if anyone even believes the obvious lies they say when they pander to their base.

Leviticus 19:18- Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself…

Republicans seem to often enjoy revenge or bearing grudges against people. It doesn’t matter what the wrong was. They’ve completely forgotten about what the bible says on forgiveness and worry about what they will do to win the next time.

Leviticus 19:33 & 34- When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt…

So often, we see racist attacks by the Republican Party and they love to mistreat illegals or others who aren’t white. They put kids in cages and do other, inhumane things to those who are not from here. They want to take away minority votes at times by disenfranchising them. They treat minorities quite badly, completely ignoring this verse.

Job 8:13-15- Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless. What he trusts in is fragile; what he relies on is a spider’s web. He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold.

One of my favorite bible verses, this is something that everyone should remember because if you stray from God, you stray from tons of fragile parts of life. One could say that the Republican Party is often losing their way nowadays, forgetting that God is the reason we are all here and doing what we do.

Psalm 5:9- Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with destruction. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak deceit.

I’m not sure offhand what this verse is referring to. All I know is that it is a good rule in life not to follow those who like to lie. And if you don’t think that Republicans lie, then you need to keep more in touch with fact checking sites that will tell you more about their various misinformation campaigns that they do over and over again.

Proverbs 12:22- The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful.

Again, it is important to remember not to lie and just blame everyone else on your problems in the world in question. One shouldn’t lie ever, be it about how impeachment works or tons of other things in life.

Proverbs 17:15- Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent- the Lord detests them both.

Focus on just the first point for a moment and remember how Republicans had no reservations about voting to acquit Trump when they knew that he had done something wrong. Whether or not they thought it was impeachment conduct isn’t the point when guilty people shouldn’t be excused of their egregious behavior.

Proverbs 27:24- …riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.

People are often forgetting this as they tend to think that they will always have power now matter what happens and what they can do to try to rig things in their favor. There was a time that the Democrats existed without the Republican Party being around. Maybe we could be lucky and it could happen again. But one day or another, they will be out of power again.

Proverbs 28:13- He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

So many people don’t confess to their wrongdoing. One has to admit that they messed up and then turn from their evil ways. The bible makes it clear that forgiveness is what one should get after one admits to their sins, not after one refuses to admit to doing anything wrong.

Ecclesiastes 7:10- Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.

If you think that things were better in the past, you’d be foolish to think that. Republicans are often trying to take us backwards with the way they do things in this world, such a taking away voter rights or claiming that American used to be great but it should be brought back now.

Ecclesiastes 8:14- There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.

That’s not to say that it is pointless that the wrong get what they don’t deserve and the right don’t get what they do deserve. The verse is here to point out that such a problem is and has long been part of the world’s problems for quite some time. Do you know how long ago it was written? And the problem won’t go away. But I’ve seen the terrible things that Republicans do and the lack of punishment they seem to get for it. Thus, they don’t get what they deserve in terms of the punishment bad people often get.

Matthew 5:9- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

Why aren’t Republicans more in favor of peace in the world? They are pro war and it makes no sense. People die because of wars. Injuries happen. Destruction happens. PTSD happens. And yet, this is what Republicans want? What? Why? It doesn’t make sense. And it isn’t what God wants to happen in this world.

Matthew 7:1- Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

This begins a very good section on the basis of judging others that one often sees Republicans do. They judge those who get abortions while also judging those who don’t get them and are otherwise sexually immoral in their eyes by having kids outside of marriage. They judge those who are LGBT. They aren’t supposed to judge, yet always do such things.

Matthew 7:22 & 23- Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evil-doers!’

One of the most sobering parts of the bible, this basically says that there will be those who think that they are following the Lord, but have been mislead in some way and won’t get in to heaven. This can be the problem with the Republican Party as they often think that they are following the bible, but aren’t in some way. They need to remember that when Jesus came, he went after the religious hypocrites of the time or those who claimed to be part of the religion, but weren’t.

Matthew 25:45- …’I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Many people focus on a different part of this section, but this one is important to. Republicans do not seem to care nowadays about helping the poor or others who won’t help them. They don’t care about those with mental health issues unless they want something to blame mass shootings on. What they don’t do for others, they don’t do for Christ.

Mark 2:17- …Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

While Republicans don’t care about helping those that have health problems, they tend to ignore that those who have health problems are the ones who need a doctor. They do whatever they can to strip health care coverage away from the sick and those with pre-existing conditions all with the pretense of saving us from socialism, whatever that is. But the sick need doctors.

Luke 11:35- See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

This is another important verse. Is what you have really light? Are you sure that what you are doing is, in fact, the right thing? Will you be on the correct side of history? You should make sure that you are advancing what will ultimately help the world in the end.

2 Thessalonians 2:10b- They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Again, it is a well known fact that Republicans lie nowadays. That is all they do most of the time. Democrats call them out on it. Conservatives remain certain that they are not the people who are wrong about things but they have to know that they are lying most of the time because what they say if often so ridiculous that no one should believe that it’s true.

1 Timothy 5:20- Those who sin are to be rebuked publicly, so that the others may take warning.

Look at all the times Trump has done or said something wrong and those in his party don’t say or do a thing to let him know that what he did was wrong. They refuse to call out wrongdoing, at least in their own party, like they are supposed to.

James 4:17- Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.

I may start sounding like a broken record here, but if someone knows what to do that’s right and they don’t do it, they are wrong in so many ways not doing what needs to be done. Sloth is considered one of the seven deadly sins and this is one of the reasons why.

1 John 4:8- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Republicans don’t seem to have much love in them despite what others might claim. They care about advancing their own agenda or the agenda of those who support them financially, but not many others in the world. And if not loving means not knowing God, this is a good way of letting Republicans know that they are not the Christian party they claim to be and many mistakenly think that they are.

3 John 11b- Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

If you think that what conservatives do are good, you would be wrong on so many levels. Thus, they are not doing what God wants and do not see God in the end. If they were doing good, they would not be supporting unapologetic people who refuse to see no wrong in themselves as they continue to do what is wrong. They don’t seek repentance or ask for mercy.

Revelation 9:20 & 21- The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood- idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

God warns of those who are being unrepentant for their wrongdoing even to the point of saying that they still won’t turn from the evil ways at the very end when plagues are causing issues in the world and the time of this world is coming to the end. People need to admit when they do wrong or this world is not going to last.

Well, that’s it for this post. I’m sure that I have more than enough examples of verses from the bible that explain why the current Republican Party has nothing to do with God or Christianity. Stay tuned in this blog and you will see a new post in the future. I may only do the new post twice just this year while doing more changing posts in the future. I will be doing Democrats in political posts for a while. Stay tuned and you will see what’s going on.