The Right-Wing Is Filled with Biblical Illiterates -- They'd Be Shocked by the Teachings of Jesus if They Ever Bothered to Study Them

[frankfrank]

No it's really extremely east to claim republicans are the worst Christians.

Who and where was it that I saw [HERE??] somebody saying that, generally, ATHEISTS have much more in common with Jesus Christ, than do evangelical Republicans?

So true.

 

[Jack Springer]

Who and where was it that I saw [HERE??] somebody saying that, generally, ATHEISTS have much more in common with Jesus Christ, than do evangelical Republicans?

So true.

Atheists have nothing in common with Jesus Christ. They totally reject that he is the Son of God and true God and Savior of all mankind.

 

[Jack Springer]

The author of the article C J Werleman, a professional atheist. He makes his living off spewing hate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_Werleman

 

[palemale]

Atheists have nothing in common with Jesus Christ. They totally reject that he is the Son of God and true God and Savior of all mankind.

I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal shopper. I just don't understand why he keeps getting me to buy those tiny, tiny, 2xist briefs. It only encourages all the gay boys in the gym locker room to ogle me.

 

[Kulindahr]

I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal shopper. I just don't understand why he keeps getting me to buy those tiny, tiny, 2xist briefs. It only encourages all the gay boys in the gym locker room to ogle me.

That's actually a superb example of the disconnect in most 'evangelicals' lives between their 'spiritual life' and everyday life: for everyday life, they think and act virtually no differently than anyone else.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Your Democrat President spent 20 years listening to Wright spew hatred

Rev. Wright made white Americans very uncomfortable but he wasn't saying anything that isn't already part of most minority people's gray-shaded view of America, even if it doesn't get airtime. Almost any nonwhite person today who loves America tempers it with the knowledge that America has done more than an abundant amount of really evil things, usually to non-white people, in its history, while carrying on with its uninterrupted identification of itself as the good guys, the city on the hill, etc.

What you are in ignorance of is that black churches have always been a venue through which social issues have been discussed, hence the Civil Rights Movement being born in the black churches. Anyone with the slightest bit of objectivity would have no problem acknowledging that many of America's actions in history have been inconsistent (to say the least) with its conception of itself as a righteous, Christian nation.

Pointing this out is hate though? lol. I guess black Americans damning social injustice in America is more hateful than white Americans damning blacks for no real reason anyone can find other than generationally-bred prejudice.

 

[Jack Springer]

^^

You're not really looking at the whole picture. Listen to a couple of Wright's sermons -- this man is full of hate.

 

[Kulindahr]

^^

You're not really looking at the whole picture. Listen to a couple of Wright's sermons -- this man is full of hate.

You don't know much about black preachers, is the problem.

 

[xbuzzerx]

^^

You're not really looking at the whole picture. Listen to a couple of Wright's sermons -- this man is full of hate.

I have listened to him and I'd echo Eastofeden's sentiment, and Kulindahr's.

I think the reason white Americans so often call any criticism of America or its policies as "hate" or "reverse racism" is because they've never truly experienced either thing.

 

[Kulindahr]

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I've listened to a fair number of black preachers, of several denominations, and every one of them -- even a conservative Lutheran -- was far more vibrant and direct in preaching, calling a spade a spade and generously applying descriptives such as "doomed" or "damned", or as Wright does, "God damn".

 

[Jack Springer]

I listened...I LOVE that guy. I would have rather voted for him instead of Obama.

Ironically...a lot of people who read and listen to you would say you are full of hate...

I doubt that you've listened to any of his sermons. If you have and agree with him, you must possess his hate of people different from him in skin color, hate of America, and inability to preach the Gospel.

 

[Jack Springer]

I have listened to him and I'd echo Eastofeden's sentiment, and Kulindahr's.

I think the reason white Americans so often call any criticism of America or its policies as "hate" or "reverse racism" is because they've never truly experienced either thing.

If you can listen to this and say that Rev. Wright is not a racist, you've not being honest with yourself.

 

[bankside]

Atheists have nothing in common with Jesus Christ. They totally reject that he is the Son of God and true God and Savior of all mankind.

Yes, but was that really the point of Jesus or his teachings?

 

[chrisrobin]

If you can listen to this and say that Rev. Wright is not a racist, you've not being honest with yourself.

Wright is not a racist. I am not a racist.
You are not the arbiter of honesty.
Wright is "pushing back" against years of oppression - it is not racism.

Reverand Wright is sooooo yesterday - sort of like Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, "pals with terrorists."
Get a life.

What was the topic again?

 

[CowboyBob]

Wright is not a racist. I am not a racist. You are not the arbiter of honesty. Wright is "pushing back" against years of oppression - it is not racism.

Reverand Wright is sooooo yesterday - sort of like Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, "pals with terrorists." Get a life.

What was the topic again?

Why does he keep ragging on about Rev. Wright? Next thing he'll carry on about is the Teapot Dome scandal and something about Zachary Taylor.

Hater's gotta hate I guess.....

 

[Jack Springer]

Yes, but was that really the point of Jesus or his teachings?

Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of the world. He came into this world to give everyone the only path to everlasting life.

 

[CowboyBob]

Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of the world. He came into this world to give everyone the only path to everlasting life.

Not for republicans tho.

Mark 10:24-25 New International Version (NIV)

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

 

[palemale]

Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of the world. He came into this world to give everyone the only path to everlasting life.

How can you be so sure he is and I'm not?

 

[eastofeden]

I doubt that you've listened to any of his sermons. If you have and agree with him, you must possess his hate of people different from him in skin color, hate of America, and inability to preach the Gospel.

I find the clip you posted very inspirational...and truthful. If I was in the area I would attend his sermons whenever I could and I am not even a Christian. He is supporting Barack Obama and I don't see any hate. He is addressing and responding to REAL oppression (the kind you perpetuate).....

I have heard right wing preachers, however, preach actual hate. Are you a fan of Scott Lively?

Here is an example of Reverend Wrignt's sermon re: gays

I refuse to limit my God, to lock God into my cultural understandings because culture is fickle. And culture is often wrong. Culture was wrong about slavery. Culture was wrong about women. Culture was wrong about Africans and Indians, and culture was wrong about Christ. I have been the pariah among many of my clergy colleagues who somehow see me as defective or not quite saved because I won't join them in their homophobic gay bashing and misquoting of scripture.

So...what do your right wing preachers have to say about gays?

 

[xbuzzerx]

If you can listen to this and say that Rev. Wright is not a racist, you've not being honest with yourself.

I watched the video.

The whole point of the video is that people from privileged backgrounds (which includes being white in our society) do not understand the experience of people from unprivileged backgrounds.

Somehow when your whole party was running around saying that the reason that Bush or Palin are great leaders is because they aren't like those ELITISTS like Kerry, they're people you could just have lunch with or BBQ with, I doubt very much you went around talking about how much hate was going on for rich white America or for America itself in the Bush or Palin support camps.

I think your inability to see that Rev. Wright is saying basically the same thing is colored by prejudice, not by any horribly offensive things he's purportedly saying. Of course there's the tiny difference that any disadvantage ever faced by Palin or Bush is a laugh compared to the prospect of growing up as a working class half-black kid in the U.S.