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Originally Posted by p-did
And back to the point of the thread: How come no conservatives have come out to speak out against the liberal bias of Jesus? Are any of you willing to smear Jesus now that you realize that he's more liberally biased than the New York Times?
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You're the one who brought it off topic to begin with. Jesus supported abortion? Jesus wanted to legalize drugs? Did Jesus condemn the number of welathy figures from the old testament who were rich from God's blessings? Jesus was a capitalist who said "that to enjoy the fruits of our labors is a gift from Him." Ecclesiastes 3:13, 5:19. Jesus spoke of the riches we will have in heaven according to our works. Did he say everyone would split heaven equally? No he did not. The government God built up in the Old Testament was free market, not a welfare state. The one example of high taxation resulted in collapse 1 Kings 12:4, Nehemiah 5:4 and 2 Kings 23:35. And those poor who did get money had to work, mostly picking crops. So to answer the question, Jesus was clearly conservative.
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And on a side note: it was funny that the list of "good conservative cities" didn't include a SINGLE MAJOR CITY! That clearly illustrates the limitations of a conservative culture: it blocks off new ideas which prevent conservative areas from ever being a major financial success.
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Actually not true, San Diego, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Boise are large cities. And actually what it shows is liberals live in the dumps and the conservatives go out into the suburbs to live in the nice areas and escape the dumps the liberals created.
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And San Francisco and New York have the highest property values in the nation: again proving the liberal culture pays dividends, in both greater freedoms and greater income that results from progressive thought.
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Property values are irrelevant. All it means is those cities are limited geographically and have higher prices as a result. A better measure is quality of life and liberal cities fail miserably there. High crime. High pollution. In some instances high homelessness. And most of all, cities where many people do not want to live. Those are the qualities that stick out in the liberal city list.