Christianity and conservatism are not compatible ideologies. Conservatives, socially, are against refugees, against equality, and fiscally are against social programs and financial aid to those in need.
Jesus demanded they help refugees, demanded equality, and demanded aid to the poor.
To be conservative means to not be Christian, and to claim you are both is to be a hypocrite.
Something Jesus also condemned.
I don’t think you know much about either ideology
Sincerely, a conservative Christian
I’ve read the bible six times, I know what it says.
I’m also a polisci student, and pay attention to what conservatives do. In fact I’ve studied conservatism, in addition to the other political ideologies that exist in our world.
Jesus said:
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat
them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your
native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
(Leviticus 19:33-34)When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very
edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go
over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen.
Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. (Leviticus 19:9-10)He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the
foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are
to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in
Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:18-19)
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I
needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I
was in prison and you came to visit me. (Matthew 25:25-36)Just to quote a very, very few.
Conservatives repeatedly repeal and cut back programs that feed the poor ,including poor children, cut back education, and cut back healthcare, all things vital to the poor. Conservatives repeatedly want no refugees, want no immigrants (travelers), including children. In fact, many conservatives want to throw the existing immagrants (travelers) out of the country (and need I remind you, Jesus was not a “legal” immagrant, so to claim ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ immigrants are any different is still to ignore what the bible has commanded of you.
I know exactly what each ideology is about. You are a hypocrite, and not a Christian. You only call yourself one while flaunting what was commanded of you.
in the field of religious studies, we often call jesus one of the first radical leftists. he was a social anarchist with communist leanings, and that’s why his draw was such a threat to the imperial system—because he was calling for the dismantling of oppressive power structures. the conservative romans were the ones who killed jesus, and conservatives after are the ones continuing to kill his message thousands of years after his death.
Don’t forget he fought against slut-shaming, embraced alcoholics and the homeless, and straight up said you can’t get into heaven if you die rich.
When I say conservative Christians would deport Jesus if they actually saw him or blacklist him if they heard him…this is why.
And it’s funny because those fools are the Pharisees and can’t even see that.
The greatest commandment of Christianity is to love your neighbor like yourself and that’s not what conservatives do.
American conservative Christianity isn’t about Christ. It’s always been about white supremacy.
Our Lord and savior Jesus Christ
Okay, I think all of y’all are mixing up social traditionalism with economic conservatism. They’re two different things. Economic conservatism IS based in abrahamic religions. For example while economic conservatism does call for charitable acts, it calls for them to be private and not given by a welfare state. This is congruous with Christianity in that when you perform charitable acts at the behest of a government, you aren’t performing them in a way that will bring you closer to God, whereas when you perform charitable acts privately, when you want to and when you can, you’re doing so BECAUSE you want to be close to God.
Like I said, you are conflating social traditionalism with economic conservatism. While many people who are economically conservative are also social traditionalists (or authoritarians), there are also many economically conservative libertarians, who base their beliefs in personal freedom and choice.
People can be Christian and conservative, as long as the actual definition of conservative is being used.
It literally doesn’t come from “abrahamic religions” and nowhere is the LACK of a social welfare state a given. It’s arguably the DIRECT OPPOSITES because the Torah gives commandments to a NATION OF PEOPLE. All the commandments are for the tribes of Israel/people of Israel/nation of Israel. It’s all inherently WORKED IN the framing that the entire thing is about the 12 tribes who form the nation/kingdom of Israel.
The rules of tzedek are about GOVERNING ISRAEL. the commandments are commands for a people, from a group of tribes, who together form a “nation” or perhaps “kingdom” or “state.”
In point of fact there are MINIMUMS of charity expected (what you could call TAXES) for the sake of the poor/orphan/stranger/widow AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, a PERSONAL expectation to give more above and beyond the expected minimums that are an obligation.
The idea to forgo the notion in Torah that everyone has a responsibility to their community and yes, that is managed by your government, is not abrahamic at large, it’s purely Christian, and in total avoidance of the actual implications of what you call the Old Testament.
The Tanakh and Torah explain in huge amounts how a nation of people came into being, our contractual obligations with each other and gd, and how to govern said nation. As far as I know, Islam also has an obligatory tax system for those who meet certain wealth qualifications (in addition to general charity), and I presume this is applied in Islamic nations (to varying degrees).
The idea that state taxes are “a welfare state” and somehow BAD instead of literally fundamental to a healthy society is from conservative Christians. Everyone else assumes taxes are the expected bare minimum of decent society and it’s going above and beyond that that makes you righteous.
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