Posted on 02/14/2025 10:55:25 AM PST by DallasBiff
The Christian Right is a powerful political force in the U.S., and it’s no coincidence that its members believe in a Jesus who aligns with their political views. Right-wing influencers have weaponized the Bible as a political tool, according to a new book by UBC’s Tony Keddie.
The Christian Right is a powerful political force in the U.S., and it’s no coincidence that its members believe in a Jesus who aligns with their political views.
Right-wing influencers have weaponized the Bible as a political tool, according to a new book by UBC’s Tony Keddie, an assistant professor of early Christian history and literature. In Republican Jesus, Keddie shows how they’ve done it.
The book hits store shelves today—four weeks before the U.S. presidential election. We spoke with Keddie about it
(Excerpt) Read more at news.ubc.ca ...
British Columbia is a leftist hell hole. It is Canada’s Oregon. Anything coming from there can and should be regarded as trash.
this is also an interesting interview with Dr Glenn Kimball
who unlike Atwill does believe that Jesus existed
Matthew 4:8-10
8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”
...but Christ never said they weren't Satan's to give.
That’s right.
The very first of what I consider Universal Values is
“Love One Another”. Said a different way:
Treat others as you yourself want to be treated.
Jesus certainly wasn’t woke.
If you’re talking about the part where they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, yes.
Exactly.
Amen 🙏🏻!
Gospel of Thomas
Saying 10: Jesus and Fire (1)
Jesus said, “I’ve cast fire on the world, and look, I’m watching over it until it blazes.”
Saying 16: Not Peace, but War
Jesus said, “Maybe people think that I’ve come to cast peace on the world, and they don’t know that I’ve come to cast divisions on the earth: fire, sword, and war. Where there are five in a house, there will be three against two and two against three, father against and son and son against father. They’ll stand up and be one.”
Saying 44: Blasphemy
Jesus said, “Whoever blasphemes the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, neither on earth nor in heaven.”
Well said.
And maybe the lefties will hopefully learn a little something or two.
Isn’t the Bible an ‘ancient text’? What else is he referring to?
When you start looking into the background of individuals that make this claim about conservatives and their view of Jesus you find that he person making the claims is usually one of the fallowing a atheist, hedonist, politicians. the common Theam is that their interest in Christ is that of a means to power
True. And when Jesus forgave the adulteress woman and told her to sin no more (John 8) He was protecting her from the cancel culture Pharisees.
Ya got me laughing! Thank you!! LOL!!
Atheist communists resorting to citing Christ is so sickening.
“ and it’s no coincidence that its members believe in a Jesus who aligns with their political views”
Yeah - because the leftists don’t do the same and when they can’t they either claim Jesus/God was wrong or abandon Him altogether because they’re obviously more righteous and correct than God.
So writes ChineseCommunist infiltrator Lui Xia Lee ..
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