Why do so many RepubliCONS claim to be Christian when Jesus preached hardcore liberal policies
Such as loving your neighbors and inviting them in, for universal health care, loving everyone, anti-war, and so on
26-30, M
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Graylight · 51-55, F
Jesus targeted the hierarchy of the Jewish faith. He criticized their mandate of ritual purity, criticized the inaccessibility of the Pharisees and their lost-touch perspective. He ministered to the sick, the poor, the ostracized, the reviled, those with stigma and those who had been ignored by their people and faith. He taught against the alienation of the least because they mattered as much as the most important. All this without even a miracle or utterance that He was god incarnate.
Because in a healthy society, it's what people do. So you make a good point, Troll: Conservatism - particularly and ironically, evangelical conservatism - has no right to co-opt Jesus. As long as racist, bigoted, hateful, alienating and self-congratulatory policies and ideologies are embraced, conservatives would do well to keep Jesus out of their mouths.
Because in a healthy society, it's what people do. So you make a good point, Troll: Conservatism - particularly and ironically, evangelical conservatism - has no right to co-opt Jesus. As long as racist, bigoted, hateful, alienating and self-congratulatory policies and ideologies are embraced, conservatives would do well to keep Jesus out of their mouths.