The Most Christian Candidate For POTUS Is A Secular Jew

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Don't make me reprise Red Jesus and Blue 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

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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.

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

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Theft, corruption, lacking a work ethic, lying and being pro abortion does not make one a good Christian.

Sanders is much closer to the anti-Christ than Jesus reincarnated! He is a very dangerous man.

you might want to try reading the NT at some point instead of superimposing rightwingnut talking points over it.

You might want to try actually understanding anything you read. Merely reading it alone, is clearly all you have done. You understanding of what you read, is clearly lower than my nephew.

and still nothing to contradict what I posted.

was yeshua not jewish, loon?

did he not say "give unto Caesar"

did he not admonish his flock to care for the poor?

and name a single word he ever said on the subject of homosexuality.

now kindly stop spewing your ignorant nonsense and answer those questions.

we'll wait, oh braindead winger.

but it's clear you know nothing about your own book.

 

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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

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

really? How do you know this Avatar? That opinion of yours is just as presumptuous as the op saying he is.... don't cha think?

Jesus wasn't political...that's what makes this thread funny

everything about jesus was political. you'd know that if you had two synapses to rub together

Given how ignorant every post of yours on this topic has been.... you are the last person to be commenting on how many synapses one needs.

Keep digging your hole deeper.

no one is lashing out except you uneducated bible thumpers.

like I said... do your homework.

or you and your fellow morons can continue braying.

now go stamp your feet again and say "I know you are, but what am I"

because you sure haven't set forth any rational thesis.

Funny how you mock saying "I know you are, but what am I"... while saying "I know you are, but what am I".

We don't need to answer you on anything. No Christian here owe you any answer about anything.

Unlike you... some of us here, are Christians. Unlike you, we don't care what your opinion is of our faith, or our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

And unlike you, we know that our risen Lord, is laughing at you, and those like you.

Psalm 37:13 "but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming."

The Lord laughs at you. He laughs. Jesus is laughing at his enemies. Jesus is just amused by you claiming you know his position on your pathetic ideology.

None of us will care what you think, anymore more than Jesus does. Keep your mocking, and your insults. It does nothing to us, because we don't care what you think, never did.

I'm only here to say the truth, and I will keep saying the truth.

Sucks to be you huh? We can vote too. Nothing you can do about it.