Socially conservative evangelicals are hypocritical

The Bible is accepted by Evangelicals as the Holy Spirit inspired revelation of God's word and therefore the ultimate authority in matters of faith and practice. The historicity of the miracles of Jesus and of his virgin birth, crucifixion, resurrection, and second coming are asserted. Salvation comes only through faith in Jesus and not as a result of one's good works. Salvation is entirely a work of God's grace and cannot be earned or deserved. It has been accomplished by Jesus and is offered to all in the gospel (in particular belief in atonement for sins at the cross and the resurrection of Christ). They believe God revealed himself in the Bible, OT and NT. Every word was inspired by God through human authors, the Bible as originally given is in its entirety is the word of God, without fault and wholly reliable in fact and doctrine. The Bible alone speaks with final authority and is always sufficient for all matters of belief and practice. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." -Ephesians 2:8,9 Evangelicals do not believe in the need to do "good works or deeds" all that is at stake here is eternal life in heaven. Nothing else matters, that takes precedence over all else. North American, evangelicals, on the whole, tend to be socially conservative. Examples of this are their view that marriage is defined as exclusively between a man and a woman, therefore they oppose laws allowing gay and lesbian individuals to marry. Additionally, based on their view that the life of a human embryo takes precedence over an individual's right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, they generally oppose laws protecting abortion on demand. A high percentage of evangelicals believe in the concept of rapture, literally the disintegration of atoms and immediate transformation of believers. Additionally a large percentage believes that the rapture will happen sometime in their life. As such they support policy that seems to support their view of what the end times will entail; this includes environmental policies (we have the rapture, no point saving the world, in fact global warming could be seen as a sign of the event itself) and foreign policy e.g. war in the middle east. According to their reading of the Bible, God established a covenant with Abraham in the Book of Genesis. Essentially, evangelicals support Israel because they believe God blesses those that bless the Jews and curses those who curse the Jews. Consequently, they believe America needs to bless the Jews and Israel, because if we bless the Jews and support Israel, God blesses us. And if they don't, God will curse them. But it goes beyond that. The establishment and continuation of the State of Israel is essential to set the stage for the imminent return of Jesus. At the time of the Second Coming, these Christians believe, Jesus will descend from heaven, subdue all of Israel's enemies and take believers to heaven. According to conservative Christians' reading of the Book of Revelation, this won't happen unless Israel exists in the Holy Land. So we have established that evangelical belief is fully compatible with conservative republican policy. Now onto Jesus himself, and the reason why Evangelical practice can seem to be at odd with the stereotyped image held of Jesus. In fact Jesus shows many traits of his father, stated in the previous round (Jesus is after all part of the trinity, the trinity is part of the one). The image of Jesus being a paragon of peace is an erroneous one. Here a few examples (there are plenty more). Mathew: Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn't the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament. 5:17 Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen.19:24). 10:14-15 Jesus says that we should fear God who is willing and "able to destroy both soul and body in hell." 10:28 Jesus says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other. He has "come not to send peace, but a sword." 10:34-36 Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they do not care for his preaching. 11:20-24 Mark: Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient children as required by Old Testament law. (cf. Ex.21:15, Lev.20:9, Dt.21:18-21) 7:9-10 If you're ashamed of Jesus, he'll be ashamed of you, therefore sent to hell. 8:38 Jesus explains why he speaks in parables: to confuse people so they will go to hell. 4:11-12 Luke: John the Baptist says that Christ will burn the damned "with fire unquenchable." 3:17 Jesus says that entire cities will be violently destroyed and the inhabitants "thrust down to hell" for not "receiving" his disciples. 10:10-15 Jesus says that we should fear God since he has the power to kill us and then torture us forever in hell. 12:5 Jesus says that God is like a slave-owner who beats his slaves "with many stripes." 12:46-47 Jesus believed the story of Noah's ark. He thought it really happened and had no problem with the idea of God drowning everything and everybody. 17:26-27 In the parable of the talents, Jesus states that God takes what is not rightly his, and reaps what he does not sow. The parable ends: "But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence." 19:22-27 John: Jesus believes people are crippled by God as a punishment for sin. He tells a crippled man, after healing him, to "sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." 5:14 Jesus says we must eat his flesh and drink his blood if we want to have eternal life. This idea was unpalatable for "many of his disciples" and "walked no more with him." 6:53-66 Acts: Peter claims that Deuteronomy 18:18-19 refers to Jesus, saying that those who refuse to follow him (all non-Christians) must be killed. 3:23 So we have Evangelicals voting Republican, which on reflection is the natural choice for them to take based on their beliefs and the direction they hope that belief leads. Good deeds are not a requisite; their belief is not based on peace and goodwill. In their eyes, the ends do indeed justify the means. I leave it up to my opponent once again to argue the case for moderate Evangelical Christianity.