As if the Republican Party hadn’t already damaged itself enough since August, the audience of yet another GOP Debate has booed something that seriously questions their claims of being true Christians.
During the Fox News/Twitter Debate in South Carolina on Sunday, the conservative audience booed the Golden Rule which is a pillar of Christian law in the Bible. In Matthew 7:12, Christ says “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.”
Well, when Ron Paul suggested that the United States practice the Golden Rule in foreign policy, the Republican audience booed him.
RON PAUL: “My point is that if another country does to us what we do to others, we are not going to like it very much. I would say that we maybe ought to consider the golden rule in foreign policy. Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want them to do to us. We endlessly bomb these countries, and then we wonder why they get upset with us?”
AUDIENCE: [Boos]
Here’s the video:
Ron Paul made an excellent point with this statement and I agree with him. Americans have engaged in illegal wars, executions of innocent civilians, torture, and God knows what other atrocities and war crimes. How can we expect other nations to respect us when we do horrible things to countries we wage war in? The Bush Administration tortured the enemy which went against our own laws. That gives other nations an opening to do to us what we do to them. That makes sense.
The Republican debate audience has been an incredible measure of what the GOP believes. They have booed a gay soldier, cheered for executions, cheered for letting a sick uninsured man die, and cheered child labor. And now they have booed basic Christian law laid down by Christ himself. The Republican Party should be ashamed to call themselves Christians.
That should be rule among humanity actually. XD
This is the Republican Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.
As I’ve been saying for some time, the GOP is now following their own new religion. A strange mix of Old Testament fire-and-brimstone and modern corporate worship.