How can "Christians" support
the Party of the Rich &
the powerful, when
Jesus Christ was
the ally of
the Poor and the Downtrodden ?
Only by IGNORING much of
What JESUS Himself identified as
HIS MOST IMPORTANT TEACHING !
When Christians identify with the Republican Party, they are committed to serving the interests of the rich, the comfortable and the powerful who completely control that party. That party works against Jesus' Liberal teaching in favor of the poor and the downtrodden, and serves the selfishishness and greed of the rich and the power-hungry. Instead of being concerned, as Jesus was, with the sins of people with great power over the lives of others, Republican Conservative Christians are promoting a form of religion that has little to do with what Jesus preached, namely one obsessed with what "little people" do in their private lives. While Jesus was concerned about what people of power did to little people, Republican Christians promote a version of "Christianity" that is obsessed with what ordinary people do with their "private parts". It might well be called "Faith of Our Genitals".
Jesus of Nazareth showed little if any such concerns. Yet today's Republican "Christian Conservatives" claim to speak for Christ on the basis of what they imagine Jesus would say and do about our world today. Since Jesus hasn't spoken on his own behalf for 20 centuries, these people treat Jesus like an inanimate object, a puppet in effect, and they claim to speak for him . That is how the world learned that :
Jesus disapproved for years of organs and pianos (because everybody assumed these instruments had been created by the devil for use in saloons and brothels). :elvis:
That's weird
Jesus disapproved of ice cream Sundaes (which is why this popular Sunday treat had to have its name changed).
It did? To what? They had ice cream shops? The stuff I don't know!
Jesus disapproved of playing cards, drinking any and all alcoholic beverages, dancing, singing, wearing bathing suits, viewing motion pictures, reading most books.
so what did they do?
Jesus disapproved of masturbation.
ooops, throws my above idea out the window
Jesus disapproved of family planning or birth-control.
Jesus disapproved of homosexuality.
Jesus disapproved of abortion.
but Jesus didn't condemn slavery, or segregation, because good bible-belt scholars could find passages to use to defend those practices!
Jesus No Republican
Too much! I'm a Jew....Jesus can be anything he wants to be....I give up! Besides, doesn't look like much fun. 😉 I don't think he was Republican though