Jesus’ message was one of love, not of hate. He had nothing to say about abortion or homosexuality or climate change (which wasn’t an issue in his day anyway). I am tired of people who love their religion but seem to love neither God nor their neighbors. Jesus was anything but a conservative, and true Christians are inspired by Christ’s example.
These thoughts led me to devise the graphic below. Feel free to use it wherever you like. Click on it for a larger version.
Fascinating. I totally agree with you on the "neither a Republican or a Democrat" point, but given his close relationship with his cousin John and his condemnation of the accommodationist and secularizing Jerusalem establishment, his insistent pushing back against the Pharisees and their creative interpretations of Scriptural mandates, his clearing out of the Temple Gift Shoppe, and his Back to the Bible speech on marriage in Matthew 19, I'm not sure you can get to what most of our contemporaries would mean by "progressive" without a few bumps in the road either.
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