I agree, and I did: "If Jesus lived today, what do you think would be his top priority?" You get five choices: abortion, homosexuality, poverty, global warming, and AIDS. There should have been a sixth choice: "None of the above."
For the progressive Left, all things are political, including religion (if it has to be tolerated at all). Yet in neither the Old nor the New Testament do we find any statement with regard to politics or political organization. The "poverty" of the New Testament is not something to escape, it is something to embrace: because the poverty spoken of there is not material want, but poverty of spirit, which is humility before God....
In this election cycle, the Left is working overtime to co-opt Christian symbols, to twist and convert the spiritual into secular meanings. It will be interesting to see how many people actually get fooled by this.
Again driftdiver, I completely agree with you that "this guy doesn't get it." And if he really did get it, and still speaks as he does, then he is no Christian. And it doesn't matter whether he wears a pastor's collar or not.
IMHO, this is yet another example of people anthropomorphizing God.