I can’t help but wonder what Jesus would think if he floated down from his cloud and saw the ideas right wing conservatives have been championing as “Christian” these past ten years. Let’s take a look at a few of these “Christian” ideals.
- They are against closing a detention facility where we jail scores of people without charge, without a fair process of establishing guilt or innocence, and without the possibility of justice or release.
- They are for torturing people for intelligence even though it goes against the Geneva Conventions, our “morals”, and that it produces completely unreliable intelligence
- They are against a democratic government health care plan that would benefit all of its citizens and not just the wealthy.
- They are for the private insurance industry garnering billions in profits at the expense of countless American lives every year.
- They are for gays fighting and dying for our country so long as they keep quiet about being gay and instead lie and pretend to be straight.
- They are against loving gay coupons having the right to be married because, um, I guess that would somehow destroy all Republican marriages?
- They are for promoting the weaponizing of America and advocating our right to bear arms to the extent they encourage carrying guns and assault weapons to church and political rallies.
- They are against detailed fact based sexual education for children in schools
- They are for keeping our children ignorant and instead teaching abstinence only even though it has been proven to be completely ineffective and even counterproductive (counterreproductive?).
- They are against a woman having full control and responsibility of her body and her own sexual reproduction.
- They are for vilifying, terrorizing, and even killing doctors who help women who seek specific kinds of legal medical care.
- They are for prayer and God in school but only if it is Christian prayer and the god is the Lord Jesus Christ. Any other religion (or none) would constitute blasphemy.
Okay, I suppose Jesus would think that last one is alright since He wasn’t much of a constitutional scholar and wouldn’t understand how illegal such a prayer mandate would be. Aside from that one point I like to think that Jesus would be a little mortified that his name is so closely associated with a group promoting such bigoted, ignorant, and homicidal ideals.
Of course I’m talking about that leftist socialist hippie Jesus here. His Dad is a lot more in line with the knuckle dragging branch of the Republican party.
Then again “loving and forgiving” Jesus did have quite the mean streak as well.
So much for love thy neighbor. Meh…maybe the Republicans are right after all.
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this is good…
While I can agree with the overall sentiment of the post, the image of Deuteronomy 28 is completely false. Deuteronomy 28:25-27 speaks of rape and likens it to murder. Therefore the punishment is to kill the rapist, but do no harm to the woman because she has committed no sin.
Verses 28-29 speak of a “single lady” having sex with another “single guy.” If they are caught, they are to be married. It is not adultery because neither of them are engaged or married. The simple solution to their impurity is to have them marry one another.
Deuteronomy 28 says none of the things you mention…but Deuteronomy 22 might. I’ll put the KJV quotes below for your ease of reference, but let’s paraphrase a little to make it readable.
verses 20-21: If your wife isn’t a virgin when you marry her, stone her to death.
verse 22: if a married woman has sex with another man, kill them both
verses 23-24: if a betrothed virgin has sex with another man in a city, kill them both because she obviously didn’t yell loudly enough to protest the assault.
verses 25-27: if betrothed damsel has sex with another man in the field then only kill the man (because we can’t prove she screamed, right?)
verses 28-29: however, if a man has sex with (or conceivably rapes) an unclaimed virgin he need only give her father fifty shekels and marry her…which is a good deal for her because her alternative is found in verses 20-21.
Selectively read your Bible much?
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(King James Version) Deuteronomy 22:
20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.