The Most Christian Candidate For POTUS Is A Secular Jew

[Star]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

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When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

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It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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[theliq]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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?????!!!!!!!

 

[Penelope]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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Who was Cruz anointed by? Copeland is a nutcase in my humble opinion. Most of the Republicans use religion like the Saud family.

 

[theliq]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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Who was Cruz anointed by? Copeland is a nutcase in my humble opinion. Most of the Republicans use religion like the Saud family.

and it's sickening and pathetic,Penny..steve

 

[Andylusion]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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I knew this was coming. Every election, there is always a bunch of morons, who try and claim they know what Jesus would do. They are so ignorant, they don't even know what they are ignorant of. Ignore these people. It's not even worth your time to argue with them.

 

[Dovahkiin]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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I knew this was coming. Every election, there is always a bunch of morons, who try and claim they know what Jesus would do. They are so ignorant, they don't even know what they are ignorant of. Ignore these people. It's not even worth your time to argue with them.

Don't worry, we know for sure that Jesus is going to vote for one of the people that wants to kick out people in need of help!

 

[midcan5]

Politicians use 'religion' as they use taxes, government, regulation, etc etc. The curious thing is imagine someone who actually lived their religion and then gave a Sermon on the Mount loaves and fishes intro. They'd soon be banned from politics. LOL

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." Proverbs 31:8-9

Of course then the Bible interpretation would change to fit the audience.

"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." Matthew 6:24

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[Skull Pilot]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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Why should anyone listen to a Jew with the chutzpah to speak for Jesus?

 

[jillian]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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jesus was a socialist jew

 

[LeftofLeft]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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If Liberals think Jesus is so aligned with their principles, why do they fight tooth and nail to keep his teachings, namesake, and references out of public schools?

 

[Snouter]

If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion.

Mithra also thought the Earth was flat.

He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time.

This is not true and that is racist. The Samaritans were semites just like Mithra. Their cult was a slight variation of the Neo-Essene cult Mithra was into and he considered them dogs.

And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich..

Again, not true. Besides Mithra wanted the wealth to support the Neo-Essene commune he trying to set up. Mithra was insane by the way, like Bernie.

 

[Theowl32]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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jesus was a socialist jew

And you are a fucking ignorant double talking hypocritical liar.

 

[jillian]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

.

jesus was a socialist jew

And you are a fucking ignorant double talking hypocritical liar.

Truth hurts, loser?

What do you think he was?

You certainly don't think he walked around saying let the poor starve or stone homosexuals, do you?

Now be quiet and go learn something, loon

You also might want to look up the words hypocrite and liar while you're at it. You might find that it would help you use words the correctly even through your impotent rage

 

[Theowl32]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

.

jesus was a socialist jew

And you are a fucking ignorant double talking hypocritical liar.

Truth hurts, loser?

What do you think he was?

You certainly don't think he walked around saying let the poor starve or stone homosexuals, do you?

Now be quiet and go learn something, loon

You also might want to look up the words hypocrite and liar while you're at it. You might find that it would help you use words the correctly even through your impotent rage

You fucking hypocrite. Love how all of a sudden you want to LOVE WHAT THE LORD said. You are such a pathetic blob. With all due disrespect.

The Lord never HINTED that we are to rely on the ROMAN GOVERNMENT for charity. In fact HE said render unto Ceasar what is Ceasars and render unto God what is Gods.

Let me know where the verse in any part of the gospel commanded us to rely of government or principalities.

You are a hopeless deranged fucking loser with no ability to think for yourself. You have no clue what true charity is. You just expect the government to do it all. You are pathetic and you pass on lies. You demented fucking hypocrite.

 

[Care4all]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

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If Liberals think Jesus is so aligned with their principles, why do they fight tooth and nail to keep his teachings, namesake, and references out of public schools?

I said this fifteen years ago and I'll say it again now, it's the Christans fault, not Christ's.... when you have the moral majority using Christ for merely political shenanigans and not teaching or following what Christ actually taught, and claiming to own Christ while slapping him in the face, people turned away from these so called Christians....

They didn't turn Christ away in schools, they were shunning the moral majority politically motivated right wing Christians simply using Christ for their own political gain.... imo.

Hopefully Bernie won't follow in the right wing's footsteps and will stick with what Christ's teachings were truly about... Love thy neighbor...

 

[Penelope]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

.

jesus was a socialist jew

And you are a fucking ignorant double talking hypocritical liar.

Truth hurts, loser?

What do you think he was?

You certainly don't think he walked around saying let the poor starve or stone homosexuals, do you?

Now be quiet and go learn something, loon

You also might want to look up the words hypocrite and liar while you're at it. You might find that it would help you use words the correctly even through your impotent rage

You fucking hypocrite. Love how all of a sudden you want to LOVE WHAT THE LORD said. You are such a pathetic blob. With all due disrespect.

The Lord never HINTED that we are to rely on the ROMAN GOVERNMENT for charity. In fact HE said render unto Ceasar what is Ceasars and render unto God what is Gods.

Let me know where the verse in any part of the gospel commanded us to rely of government or principalities.

You are a hopeless deranged fucking loser with no ability to think for yourself. You have no clue what true charity is. You just expect the government to do it all. You are pathetic and you pass on lies. You demented fucking hypocrite.

True and Caesar represented the Roman Gov. Time for the rich to pay their taxes.

 

[Andylusion]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

.

jesus was a socialist jew

And you are a fucking ignorant double talking hypocritical liar.

Truth hurts, loser?

What do you think he was?

You certainly don't think he walked around saying let the poor starve or stone homosexuals, do you?

Now be quiet and go learn something, loon

You also might want to look up the words hypocrite and liar while you're at it. You might find that it would help you use words the correctly even through your impotent rage

Ignorance is bliss, which is why the truth never seems to hurt you.

 

[amrchaos]

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"But if you do if you consult with Jesus on Election Day, don’t say you weren’t warned if he tells you he is casting his lot with Bernie the secular Jew."
~ Stephen Prothero​

Excerpts from:
WWJD? Maybe vote for Bernie: Column
Stephen Prothero
February 17, 2016

<snip>

When Jimmy Kimmel asked him [Bernie] whether he was an atheist, Sanders ducked the question. When The Washington Post pressed him last month, he said, “I think everyone believes in God in their own ways.” And at an Iowa town hall, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “My spirituality is that we are all in this together, and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out in the street, it impacts me.”


As a scholar of American religion, I know I am supposed to take Sanders at his word, slot him as a secular Jew who is, as he put it, “not particularly religious” and leave it at that. Even so, I cannot shake the sneaking suspicion that he is the most Christian candidate in the race.


In a speech in September at Liberty University, whose president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently endorsed Donald Trump, Sanders cited Jesus on the golden rule in Matthew 7:12. He also quoted from an Old Testament passage often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). These two texts lent Sanders the bookends of his speech, morality and justice, which he said had to a great extent gone missing in a country that "worships not love of brothers and sisters, not love of the poor and the sick, but worships the acquisition of money and great wealth.”


That sounds like Pope Francis, whom Sanders has repeatedly lauded.

<snip>

It must also be remembered that Jesus was a Jew, and that the historical Jesus bears almost no resemblance to the American Jesus conjured up in the late 1970s by the religious right and trotted out nowadays by Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and other Republicans desperately seeking the white evangelical vote.


If the Bible is your guide, Jesus said nothing, ever, about abortion. He did, however, tell us to love our neighbors, including those Samaritans, the Mexicans and Muslims of his time. And he demonstrated a clear preference for the blessed poor over the filthy rich.


Jesus was also fully conversant with the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and Amos, whose faith focused first and foremost on justice for all in this world rather than salvation for some in the next. When Jesus turns up in a synagogue in the Gospel of Luke, he does not condemn homosexuals. He does not prophesy that a man named Trump will one day become the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Instead, he reads from Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”


Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.” Sanders would never presume to say that about himself. Neither would I. Still, I can’t help but think that the spirit of the Lord hovers far closer to Sanders' “political revolution” than to the patently unchristian efforts of cultural conservatives to wall off Samaritans, enrich the rich, or refuse to allow rape victims to terminate pregnancies.

<snip>

Of all the candidates for POTUS Bernie Sanders' values most closely resemble the values of historical Jesus.

.

jesus was a socialist jew

And you are a fucking ignorant double talking hypocritical liar.

There is some aspects of the First Church, discussed in Acts, that suggested Jesus set up a theological based socialist commune.

Leaders were chosen by religious leaders

The members share their wealth

The church sought new members in order to grow an eventually take over the world

Little to no discussion on what happened to dissenter---the few dissenters mentioned were made examples of!

 

[nat4900]

If Liberals think Jesus is so aligned with their principles, why do they fight tooth and nail to keep his teachings, namesake, and references out of public schools?

Because schools are NOT religious venues, nitwit.

 

[Avatar4321]

It always amazes me that those who don't know, mock, and demean jesus are convinced they know best who He would approve. And it's always the candidate that wants to use violence to enforce his radical agenda in the name of love despite the fact that Jesus never taught us to use force to "help" people.

If Christ approves of any candidate, it's not the socialist