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CMV: You are either a Christian or a Republican. In today’s political climate, you cannot be both.

I grew up in a wealthy community in the south, and spent a lot of my time until I left for college within a church setting. Now I know the New Testament can be interpreted a lot of different ways, but I was under the impression that the key theme of the whole thing was essentially to love and help one another, ESPECIALLY those that cannot help themselves and the downtrodden. 

And as far as politics, the takeaways I got from my Republican upbringing were more along the lines of every man for themself. Sorry you were born with every disadvantage one can imagine, now pull yourself up by your bootstraps like I did. 

I know this is speaking in generalities a bit, but it seems as though that in this day in age, the more Christian or Catholic you are, the higher the likelihood you are a republican. And yet, outside of the abortion argument, it seems as though Republican ideals with regard to helping one another fundamentally oppose what Christianity is all about. 

What gives? Am I an idiot, or are these people being extremely hypocritical? I’d prefer to hear from those on the right as well. How do you justify the gospel saying one thing, and your politics pushing the opposite? 

For the record, I’m pretty moderate at this point in my life, in both politics and religion.
gpt
The problem with these threads are always the same: It ends up being Democrats telling other Democrats what Republicans believe in the most partisan ways possible.  You're not really describing Republicans.  You're describing what you and other partisan Democrats want to believe Republicans are - which is basically heartless monsters.