I consider myself a Christian conservative but I cannot ignore the selfishness and hatred that is too often displayed by Conservative Christians in America. While it is true that Christian Conservatives claim the Bible is the word of God, many are not living according to its New Testament teaching. Some dwell more on the Old Testament laws and expect non-believers to live by them even though through their own social actions it is obvious that even they themselves do not live by the commandments.<\/p>\n
For example, the Deep South is the conservative Christian Bible belt of America but it also had so much racism and hatred towards blacks that the federal government had to intervene and force desegregation about forty years ago. The Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century controlled most white Bible believing churches and most civil government in the South. What the Klan did not control Masonic groups controlled. Forty years after the enforcement of desegregation in the South there still are many rural areas that are controlled by those who claim that they are Bible believing Christians but display unbiblical views and even hatred toward others. more….<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I consider myself a Christian conservative but I cannot ignore the selfishness and hatred that is too often displayed by Conservative Christians in America. While it is true that Christian Conservatives claim the Bible is the word of God, many are not living according to its New Testament teaching. Some dwell more on the Old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[352,54],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discernment","tag-discernment","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}