But he’s right. Christianity and conservatism are NOT inseparable. Many, many liberals are Christian. They think of Jesus as the man who said that we should feed the poor, not stone the prostitute, share the loaves and fishes, and let’s not forget that eye-of-the-needle remark and the story of the Good Samaritan. The Jesus of the Bible is ambiguous enough that he could be a spokesman for either side, depending on which quotes you use. And let’s face it: all black churches are liberal.
Exactly. This is one of the best posts I've ever read here.
J*sus the demigod is a conservative. J*sus the moral philosopher is a liberal.
I predict that one day Martin Luther King Jr. will be turned into a conservative demigod by people who refuse to see how radical and secular he was.
The Jesus of the Bible is only ambiguous to those who don’t read the Bible.
There are key attributes of Christ which are absolute and definitive, such as his blood atonement and what he says in John 14:6.
Liberal Christianity rejects these things. Thus liberal Christianity is what Jesus called the spirit of antichrist.
Jesus DID say those things, to individuals.
He did not say to do it by stealing from others, under law, to help your conscience, to make it easier than you having to do it yourself.
A liberal might say they are a Christian, but that ‘spirit’ does not bear witness with mine.
Jesus in the Bible (and in my life) is NOT ambiguous at all.
The facts on the ground in the US now are that the conservative faction will still acknowledge a biblical God while the liberal side won’t. Other political arenas and other times may vary.
But yes, conservatives CAN drop the God ball (I’ve seen it here, and the result looks like gratuitous cruelty) in which case we are faced with the question of which side of the ship to hell arrives first, the port or starboard side.