Why conservative Christians would have hated Jesus

Very interesting article that brings up some very interesting truths, IMO.

What do you think?

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/03/why...er/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

The key to this article is the conservative/fundamentalists Christians...and NOT all Christians.

 

the article is fine better question for me and to the ones this offends oops ,
All the nra gun toting Christians , Jesus asks to follow him to drop everything ,, nra members takes 15 mins going to their gun safes,, 90% Christians gonna ask can I still hate gay people , a vast majority gonna wanna know if we can close the borders and far too many still fine with keeping women down,,
That's a party I dropped 5 yrs ago but shh don't tell my mother

 

Living in the south (where conservative Christians run the world) I'd have to say that this is entirely accurate. Elected officials who call themselves Christians spend more time criticizing, marginalizing, and judging everyone else than they do helping the poor and the needy. Any kind of spending or program that might benefit people even indirectly and make their lives a little bit better is shouted down as socialism/communism/fascism or whatever other -ism happens to come to mind.

I've reached the point in my life where I consider religious belief a minus when it comes to deciding who to vote for. I grew up going to church and my parents are still extremely religious but I'd be lying if I said that I wanted anything to do with today's Christians.

 

Reminds me of the quote from the film Ivanhoe, with Robert Taylor, George Sanders, Felix Aylmer and Elizabeth Taylor(she was really hot in this film), where the fool Womba says, "For every Jew you see who is not a Christian; I'll show you a Christian who is not a Christian."

Jesus would not people to discriminate because of their views or station in life. He says that we have to love one another, and that means all of us on this planet.

Jesus would not want people to live by the sword(in this day and age, it is the gun). Live by the sword, die by the sword. It is funny that people have more faith in guns than they do the Holy Trinity.

I think that if these conservatives followed the examples of Jesus, they would be more inclusive and accepting as Jesus would be. And then their ideas would be non-existant.

 

Don't lump all Christians in with the wacko Bible Belt Thumpers. Those are a completely different breed of Christian.

Living in Chicago, my experiences growing up with religion were pretty benign. We went to a normal Catholic Church, not one of the extreme ones. My neighbors went to a Lutheran Church, and I attended some of their services and they were also benign.

It wasn't until I went to Israel, on an archaeological dig with the Associates for Biblical Research (they sponsored digs to prove stories in the Bible) that I was first exposed to the Bible Belt Christians.

My one friend (also a Catholic) who went with me, we joked during our trip: we're not in culture shock Israel, we're in culture shock Bible Belt!

One of the guys on the trip actually said to me: God works through a submissive wife.

Uh no.

So, yeah, I totally get where you all are coming from with the Bible thumpers. But please don't lump ALL Christians into that group, because we aren't all rigid in our beliefs of exclusion.

 

Frank Schaeffer is a cherry picker. Can't take him seriously.

And Bookie, the guy who said that about submissive wives isn't wrong, necessarily: "Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives." I Peter 3:1-2. So yeah, God can work through submissive wives.

 

I'm not lumping every single Christian in with the wackos but let's be entirely honest: the wackos are the ones running for office, the wackos are the ones being elected over more moderate and reasonable candidates, and the wackos are the ones essentially controlling one of the country's two major political parties.

Things may be more moderate in Illinois but in Georgia (and Alabama, and Mississippi, and Louisiana, and Texas, and Florida, and Oklahoma, and South Carolina, and Tennessee, and...you get the picture) being extreme is how you win primaries. That's what I base my statement on when I say that I'm less likely to vote for someone who is openly religious.

 

You know? I'd love to put my two cents in regarding this matter, but I think I will sit this one out, especially since I have some issues to contend with currently.