Response to Jesus - Blue or red

This post by Mark:

Good start. You said yourself it was long winded and you'll find no argument from me. Since you seem, in your own mind, to have solved all of the world's confusion on the issue I almost have nothing left to say.... But I'll say a few things anyway.

For the initial response to your first post, here are my politics.

I am a socialist, at home.
I am a democrat, at church.
I am independent, locally.
I am a republican, stateside.
I am a libertarian, federally.
I am conservative, in foreign policy.
And I am an anarchist, at the United Nations.

So first, while I agree with the vast majority of your monologue, I'd like to take issue with several:

1) "How do we defend our Republican political ideals as Christians."
I don't - based on the above description of my politics. In fact, I'd take issue with many Republican ideals being defended as Christian. To take a couple - I think Christians should be against the death penalty and I think they should be working at Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics instead of protesting outside of them.

2) "Let me just say now that I DO NOT believe that EITHER party is out to destroy America."
You are just scared of the word destroy. To destroy means "to put an end to". The United States was created to be a capitalistic free market, governed by states and the rights given to them by the people who live there. The democrats are trying to destroy America.

3) "3. I did, because in my scenario he got fed."
How do you presume to know that he needed food more than a cigarette at that particular time? I loved your illustration, but you forgot one thing.... The moral man, and presumably the Christian as well should have made your same decision. He feeds the homeless person and feels good, using after tax dollars. The man in the suit has already handed him your pre tax dollars and therefore we have a fat, smoking, unemployed ward of the state who will cost you many, many creamy delicious Marble Slab ice cream cups in the future with un payable medical expenses and hospital stays.

The inter connectivity that ties all things moral, spiritual, human, economic, and political together will keep posts interesting, enlightening, and long.... The lack of connectivity that is my fingers to the keyboard as I hunt and peck painfully along will require some courtesy on your part to keep each post as succinct as possible, or if long, at least only musing through one topic at a time.

My choice for you and my proposal for our next posts - you decide and I will accept the other:

Jesus - red or red?
Jesus - blue or blue?

Love you bro, and in the timeless words of Socrates, "I drank what?"