The Most Christian Candidate For POTUS Is A Secular Jew

[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

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.

again, your impotent rage does not change what is real.

what is real is jesus christ was named yeshua. the romans called him christos, most probably sarcastically, in the same way they labeled the crosses for those who agitated against rome "messiah". there were hundreds of jewish "messiahs" who wanted to liberate jerusalem from rome.

what is also real is that even if one believes yeshua was the messiah, he admonished repeatedly that the poor needed to be taken care of, said a camel had more chance of passing through the eye of a needle than go to heaven, said to give caesar his due (e.g., taxes) and warned his followers against judging others. he never said one word about gays.

do you even read your own book?

 

[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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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?

1. i'm not christian
2. i'm not a socialist, jesus was
3. because we live in a religiously diverse country and the constitution (by way of the first amendment) prohibits government from preferring one religion over another.


i hope that explains things for you. the point, which you've clearly missed is that the o/p correctly identified jesus' values. and i've met enough true christians to know they agree with me.

 

[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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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.

again, your impotent rage does not change what is real.

what is real is jesus christ was named yeshua. the romans called him christos, most probably sarcastically, in the same way they labeled the crosses for those who agitated against rome "messiah". there were hundreds of jewish "messiahs" who wanted to liberate jerusalem from rome.

what is also real is that even if one believes yeshua was the messiah, he admonished repeatedly that the poor needed to be taken care of, said a camel had more chance of passing through the eye of a needle than go to heaven, said to give caesar his due (e.g., taxes) and warned his followers against judging others. he never said one word about gays.

do you even read your own book?

I have read through the entire bible for the past 5 years. You don't know what you are talking about, because you are ignorant.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Hilarious shit, Godless left loons telling Christians what Jesus would do.

 

[nat4900]

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

This idiot is the paragon of ignorant stupidity..Hey, moron, did you ever wonder why Jesus was a Rabbi?

 

[jillian]

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.

again, your impotent rage does not change what is real.

what is real is jesus christ was named yeshua. the romans called him christos, most probably sarcastically, in the same way they labeled the crosses for those who agitated against rome "messiah". there were hundreds of jewish "messiahs" who wanted to liberate jerusalem from rome.

what is also real is that even if one believes yeshua was the messiah, he admonished repeatedly that the poor needed to be taken care of, said a camel had more chance of passing through the eye of a needle than go to heaven, said to give caesar his due (e.g., taxes) and warned his followers against judging others. he never said one word about gays.

do you even read your own book?

I have read through the entire bible for the past 5 years. You don't know what you are talking about, because you are ignorant.

you're reading a man-made book. you don't get reality from the new testament. but even if it wasn't man-man, and even if you assume it is accurate historically,

the new testament bears out everything i said. and you should probably read the book Zealot. it might help you from an historical perspective.

so let's break this down? because nothing i said should offend you. and everything i said was accurate.

so:

are you saying jesus wasn't a jew?

are you saying that the new testament doesn't constantly admonish you to take care of the poor and not to judge?

are you saying jesus didn't say "give unto caesar what is caesar's"?

are you saying that he ever said word one about gays?

which of us is ignorant again? it looks like i know your book better than you do.

i look forward to your ignorant response which, yet again, disagrees in no way which what i posted and simply rages at the moon.

 

[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

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

more rightwingnut spew.

be a good boy and shut up or prove what i said wrong.

i understand it upsets pretend christians to acknowledge that jesus would never approve of the radical religious right's use of his name.

 

[Care4all]

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?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

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

 

[Andylusion]

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

This idiot is the paragon of ignorant stupidity..Hey, moron, did you ever wonder why Jesus was a Rabbi?

.

"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.

.

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?

1. i'm not christian
2. i'm not a socialist, jesus was
3. because we live in a religiously diverse country and the constitution (by way of the first amendment) prohibits government from preferring one religion over another.


i hope that explains things for you. the point, which you've clearly missed is that the o/p correctly identified jesus' values. and i've met enough true christians to know they agree with me.

No, he didn't, you didn't, and neither you, nor him, have any clue of Jesus values. No they don't agree with you.

People like you, just find someone who says what you already think, and then conclude "they must be true Christians, because they agree with my stupidity". Just because ignorant people, agree with an ignorant position, doesn't mean anything. At best it means you attract other ignorant people to you.

Which is why I'm not going to argue you with you about what you think Jesus said. If you actually cared to know, you would know. Which means you don't care to know. So why bother trying to correct stupidity? Instead, just go back to your mythical world where Jesus and Stalin were best buddies. With all your other myths and legends.

 

[LeftofLeft]

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.

We are talking about Jesus' teachings here on a message board. By your definition, is USMB a religious venue? Please engage in healthy debate without the name calling. It diminishes any level of substance you bring to the debate.
Just some friendly advice from a Christian.

 

[LeftofLeft]

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

Correct. He was very much concerned with social issues. Consider adultery, for instance. Jesus said if we lust after a woman with our eye, we have committed adultery. Think Liberals feel like quoting this to Bill Clinton? Think Liberals would tell Jesus that the Lewinskies he received are a private matter and for Him and others to stay out of it?

When Liberals site Jesus, it is a pure cherry pick in a failed attempt to hold Christian Conservatives accountable to their own rules.....this from the teachings of Alinsky which they value more than the Bible.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

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

Correct. He was very much concerned with social issues. Consider adultery, for instance. Jesus said if we lust after a woman with our eye, we have committed adultery. Think Liberals feel like quoting this to Bill Clinton? Think Liberals would tell Jesus that the Lewinskies he received are a private matter and for Him and others to stay out of it?

When Liberals site Jesus, it is a pure cherry pick in a failed attempt to hold Christian Conservatives accountable to their own rules.....this from the teachings of Alinsky which they value more than the Bible.

The left cherry picks the Bible to suit their current need, one has to take the entire Book in context.

 

[GHook93]

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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.

.

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.

 

[Andylusion]

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

Oh I think he was.
"The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. But you are not to be like that." -Jesus

Luke 22, makes it clear Jesus knew all about the politicians and governments and ideologies.... and said "Don't be like" those morons....

So not only was Jesus not like what these ignorant people claim, but he told us to not be like them.

 

[jillian]

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

 

[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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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.

 

[Andylusion]

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.

 

[Andylusion]

.

"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.

.

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.

 

[jillian]

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.