Jesus's whole movement is about humility and picking up your cross and alienating your society because you're going to fight so hard for the marginalized.
I extracted this content from an interview with John Fugelsang on the You Tube show I've Had It. This is a small portion of the whole interview which is available at the link.
Fugelsang has written a book about right wing Christianity .
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I was taught to believe that Christianity was about the stuff, you know, Jesus talked about. Uh, love, empathy, service to others, uplifting follow him. And if they're going to try and force their narrow right-wing version of Christianity on all of us in our public schools and our airwaves, we're allowed to call them out for not really following Jesus. They're devoted to a lot of crap they pretend, he said. But the actual stuff he said that they call woke. And I'm sick of it. And that's why Donald Trump is president. And so I wrote a whole book about it. Um, and it's not about hate. It's about how to actually use humor, nonviolence, and the damn Bible because uh it's time to thump Bible thumpers with the Bible and take it back for the nice people.
I do believe in God. I I even identify with his mood swings. Um how, you know, how could I not believe in God? You gotta blame somebody. Am I right? But uh you know, I I used to when I was a kid brag about how Christian I was. And now, uh, I say I aspire to be a Christian because, um, it ain't that easy. Jesus's whole movement is about humility and picking up your cross and alienating your society because you're going to fight so hard for the marginalized. That's the whole message. It's not about total right-wing domination of your school board.
They don't read the Bible and they're counting on you not having read the Bible and that's it. Because Jesus of the Bible was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary, hung around with lepers hookers and crooks, never spoke English, was not American, was anti-wealth, anti- death penalty, anti-public prayer, Matthew 65, but never anti-gay, never anti-abortion, never called poor people lazy, never fought for tax cuts for wealthy Nazarines, never said torture is okay in some situations.
He was a long-haired, brown-skinned, that's in Revelation, brown-skinned, homeless, community organizing, unarmed, anti-slutshaming, authority questioning, authority challenging Palestinian liberal Jew. But that's only if you believe what's really in the Bible. So, anyone who's trying to link Donald Trump to Jesus, they haven't read the Jesus parts. Because the only way you can follow both Trump and Jesus is if you haven't read either of their books. Those guys have nothing in common except they spent a lot of time around prostitutes and they both used ghostriters. That's it. Let's talk about the part about uh Jesus speaking out against the accumulation of wealth. Number one. And the second part of that is him uh speaking out against public religiosity.
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The segment with John Fugelsang begins at the 27:00 mark.
I've always liked this verse. It's from the New International Version not the King James so I'm sure some on here will have a problem with that.
And why I say it's my favorite? I once hosted Thanksgiving dinner at my house. I did all the prep and all the cooking. Mr G's best friend's wife wants us to say prayer before we dig in. This is my house! Not hers. I told her go right ahead, I'm hungry and I'm eating. She tells Mr G to say the prayer. And him, not wishing to offend his friend goes ahead and does it. I still keep filling my plate. So...want to say a blessing before a meal, have at it. At your own house. But don't expect me to be gracious about you insisting on prayer at my house. And besides, I'm offended that someone thinks my food needs praying over!
I think that church services or Catholic mass are fine, because they create and converge community. What seems less appropriate is someone like Mike Johnson promoting the idea that he falls to his knees in his Majority Leader office and prays. He is patting himself on the back.
I used to like going to Mass. And then it started turning political when Pope Benny took charge. Anyway, I think you should pray where and when you want to but not in a disruptive manner. People silently praying at my table when I'm eating makes me uncomfortable but as long as they're ok with me continuing to mangle my food, we're cool. I don't like overt signs of religiosity when it's only to make that person look "Godly"
that is the key point