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“Because the Bible Tells Me So” 2

Tony Norman looks into his spam folder and explores emails from those who exhort him to base his voted on “Christian values.” What he finds troubles him.

Here’s a bit:

On one hand, Christian religious leaders such as those in the PPN (Pennsylvania Pastors Network, whatever that is–ed.) urge their congregants to support candidates who stand diametrically opposed to biblical values as practiced by Christians for thousands of years.

On the other hand, American Christians have the unambiguous example of a penniless, itinerant rabbi who exalted the poor, denounced the rich, healed the sick, embraced society’s outcasts and modeled a new way of relating to women, tax collectors, children, foreigners, religious authorities, lepers and those in prison.

None of these biblical values, as far as I can tell, is supported in the rhetoric of either Mr. Cruz or Mr. Trump. Both candidates embrace the politics of fear, the demonization of undocumented immigrants, rabid suspicion of foreigners, the expansion of the military for the sake of national pride, an unregulated economy that allows market forces to determine what’s best, a society where being armed with as many guns as one’s pride allows is the norm, a denial of environmental responsibility and a social ethic that exalts the rich while brutalizing the poor.

It has been my experience that those who most loudly proclaim their “Christianity” are the least to be trusted with anything. Trust them, and you end up hoisted on their Elmer Gantry.

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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    April 13, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    Jesus of America, plus the prosperity gospel. Repackaging cash as proof of virtue even better than turning water into wine. You should send him my song.

    http://www.dickdestiny.com/JesusSays.JPG

     
  2. Frank

    April 13, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    Cash is most certainly their primary preoccupation.

    They worship no Jesus that I know.

     
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