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NeoGreen

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Wed Oct 24, 2018, 09:19 AM Oct 2018

Oklahoma GOP Leader: "A Progressive Christian is Not a Christian At All!" [View all]





Oklahoma GOP Leader: “A Progressive Christian is Not a Christian At All!”
By Sarahbeth Caplin, October 23, 2018

Carolyn McLarty, A National Committeewoman to the Republican Party from Oklahoma, wrote an email bashing progressive Christians that was sent to every subscriber of the party’s mailing list.

Patrick Riley at The Lost Ogle shares the email that was sent out on Friday — you can read it here — calling it a “terrifying look inside the logic-defying brains of the people who run the State GOP.”

Here’s McLarty:

There is an anti-Trump “Evangelical Christian” group called “Vote Common Good” touring the country. Sound delightful, right? Wrong!


They are a Progressive Christian troupe that promotes a socialist agenda. They would like nothing less than to flip Congress away from Republican control, yet they say they are non-partisan.

Damn right they want to flip Congress. As we’ve noted on this site, Vote Common Good supports politicians who promote their evangelical values. And despite the GOP claiming to do just that, it’s the Democrats whose policies call for helping the poor, making health care more accessible, and caring for the “least of these.”

That’s the “socialist agenda” Christians like McLarty fear so much. She goes on the trash the group’s name and mission.

The “common good” is an idea right out of the Marxist Communist Manifesto. Socialism and communism have never worked. A market economy with private property, individual liberty, personal responsibility, respect for the dignity of life for every person, and the rule of Law does work.


I have no idea how she can promote the “dignity of life for every person” on the same weekend that we learned the administration wanted to literally define transgender people out of existence.

We have witnessed the mob rule antics of the Democrat left in Washington, D.C. recently. They are desperate to gain control of their “progressive” agenda. They are well funded, and are doing everything imaginable to grab power — even use “Christianity” as a cover.

What is a Progressive Christian? A Progressive Christian is not a Christian at all!

Progressive Christianity is another liberal theology. It is a feel good, do good, humanistic attempt to co-opt the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ…


Know who else is pretty well-funded? Evangelicals.
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She looks like Dana carvey's "Church Lady" Rocky888 Oct 2018 #1
Yes. Isn't she special. Funtatlaguy Oct 2018 #2
Looks like a Church Chat still BeyondGeography Oct 2018 #5
Yup SHRED Oct 2018 #6
Perfect, it's Her twin! Rocky888 Oct 2018 #8
Thanks Aunt Lydia Renew Deal Oct 2018 #3
The Religious Right is Neither dlk Oct 2018 #4
You know who are liars who don't give a shit about anything Jesus said or did? lark Oct 2018 #7
Most of those evangelicals are Southern Baptists FiveGoodMen Oct 2018 #9
And continues to oppress women, LGBT people, and non-Christians. Mariana Oct 2018 #13
How is it any different these days? Major Nikon Oct 2018 #17
They used to be pastors first and actually follow the Bible. lark Oct 2018 #18
It's always been a perverted version of the bible Major Nikon Oct 2018 #19
How was this not political? Voltaire2 Oct 2018 #20
Among Christians it is said to be bad etiquette to say "you are not"... sanatanadharma Oct 2018 #10
Bad etiquette? Isn't that convenient. Mariana Oct 2018 #12
She is full of it too. She needs to be called down and told basically that her religious ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #11
Lord Have Mercy! This is not of You. Trouble instigator 'churchy' lady. sprinkleeninow Oct 2018 #14
Why are you wearing 'fake' hair on your supposed crown of creation? sprinkleeninow Oct 2018 #15
Ooh, looks like she's got some lipstick on too. That's a no-no. sprinkleeninow Oct 2018 #16
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