Posted on 07/25/2006 9:42:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I always thought Jesus Christ was a very bad man. My dad always used to say his name when he was pissed off about something.
Well said and if making Jesus a liberal brings more people back to Christianity I am all for it. But danged if I can reconcile their political views with Christ's teachings.
And I don't believe Jesus was unconditionally passive or unconditionally tolerant.
When you are God in the flesh, you don't have to worry about anything happening to you that you don't permit to happen. Jesus let Himself be humiliated and put to death to conquer sin and death and bridge the gap between sinful man and holy God.
And Jesus wasn't unconditionally tolerant either. Read about what he did to the money changers in the temple. Read about his confrontations with the Pharisees and other religious leaders of his time. Read what He had to say about the last days in Matthew 24 and 25, and in Revelation. His perfect justice and righteousness from a human perspective, does not appear on the surface to be tolerant. Permissivity does not equal tolerance.
I doubt it. Dad was Jewish.
I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle-aged mate, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men strictly accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well-being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club.
Santa Claus is another matter. He's cute. He's nonthreatening. He's always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without thought of a quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he's famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
Like the sort of bully who drives the money changers out of the high temple with a whip? But its not money changers on the site now, its some death cult bent on world domination, and is willing to cut off the head of anyone who disagrees.
Like the sort of law breaker who picks grain off the stalk to eat on the sabbath? But then the sabbath is made for man, not man for the sabbath. Just as our laws are to protect civilization, not to let savages destroy it.
Bump
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods...
Sounds like God is neither a socialist or communist, which means He isn't a Democrat.
I would not argue that Ghandi would be considered a liberal at all. One of his quotes, and a personal favorite of mine, goes along the lines of 'Among the many misdeeds of the British Empire, history will certainly look upon the act of disarming society as one of its darkest'.
He also realized that war was necessary. The left tries to exploit him, much like they are trying to exploit Christians with this sort of nonsense.
Okay, I'll play the role of minion. The substance of this guy's argument seems to center around his perceived shortcomings of conservative Christians. Yet, Jesus' ministry occured over 2,000 years ago. I suppose he could just as easily rail against Emperor Nero by complaining about the ways of modern Italians, or against Sun Tzu by lambasting those evil Red Chinese.
If he wants to complain about the state of conservative Christianity, he might have some valid points to make. However, his attempt to reach back into time and mold Jesus into his liberal image is pure folly.
Thought you might like to read this.
Just remember what Jesus said about the " Hirelings " for they do not care for the sheep.
The left doesn't even give a fig about Christians,Jesus,or Christianity-they've just finally realised a rich vein of voters and are trying to co-opt it. They don't understand that it can't be done,that these voters know why they vote,and it's not for the socialist secular murderous agenda of the left. The so-called "religious" votes that they may get,they would've gotten anyway,because it will be "religious" liberals(the ones who have gay "pastors" in their churches),who vote Rat anyway. They won't get the religious right-they're forgetting the "right" part of the equation.
Both parties are devious and greedy, though one is slightly better than the other. Jesus wouldn't have anything to do with either one.
You are right on this. It makes my skin craw that both sides are USING Jesus in this way. What scumbags on both sides!!!!
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