Both Christianity and the Republican Party are Losing New Generations


The recent dust up in the House of Representatives was Christianity pushing itself even more into governing of the U.S. It is a guarantee we will see money held back by the House when some religious members see sin in the government. It will continue what polls have shown, younger voters do not like the old-time religion.

The Republican Party's own internal studies have confirmed it is losing ground among the constituencies it needs to remain in power. I suppose the average party leader is like the average fundamentalist Christian and wants the party to be about himself, not anyone else. Mostly, church goers and their leaders aren't concerned with the hemorrhaging of youth out of the faith. The youth are wrong and need to shape up. Current aging members are right so why should they be the ones to change?

I didn't watch all the clown circus when Republicans finally chose a new speaker but once a congressman quoted the Bible to make some point. We're going to see and hear a lot about the Bible in congress these next two years. This is because Republicans will be going through each budget and trying to take out every expenditure they consider to be sinful. Let's count the sins we will hear about.

Hidden deep in the defense budget is a minuscule sum spent for abortions for female military members. I would not be surprised if more time was spent on these sums, relatively pennies, than the other billions in that budget. 

The education budget will be examined to rid itself of anything the actual history of racism in the U.S. Then the search will be on for any expenditures teaching children who are uncertain of their gender to seek some successful resolution. The only acceptable gender decision is the one provided by conservative Christian legislators. Christian legislators know what God intended and the government needs to get in line. 

Any federally funded medical services for women provided by Planned Parenthood will merit days of debate. This is because Planned Parenthood is a sinful organization and any money paid to them will go directly to Satan.  

Younger voters will continue to leave the Republican Party because the clown car we watched this week has only begun its journey. 

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