What would Jesus do?
Not a concern of the Christian Coalition
apparently...
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The Reverend elected to take over as president of the Christian Coalition of America said he will not assume the role because of differences in philosophy.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, of Longwood's Northland, A Church Distributed, said Wednesday that the national group would not let him expand the organization's agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.
"These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about," Hunter said.
"They pretty much said, 'These issues are fine, but they're not our issues, that's not our base,'" Hunter said.
NOT OUR BASE...they said. How can someone claim to be Christian, yet not adhere to the teachings and philosophy of Jesus Christ? I am not the most religious person in the world, but I do believe in what Jesus preached...be kind to your fellow man, help the needy. But more and more I am seeing that that is not what is on the mind of most of the Christian Right. They seem to be more concerned with the political hot topics like Abortion and Gay Rights. People in my town, starving? So what? There are two guys in San Francisco who want to get married...HOW DARE THEY! The very visible Christian Right are more concerned with political clout and raising money for themselves than in helping your fellow man. I see more and more rich people who claim to be Christian, claim to believe in what Jesus preached, yet feel that people need to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps." (Hmm....who said that?) Many don't have bootstraps to pull on, and need help and compassion.
Does this country try to help the world? Or just want to dominate it? If the current leadership is so religious and believes in God and Jesus, why don't they give more aid to countries in terms of food? Instead of paying our farmers NOT to grow food, grow the food and ship it to countries without. Or send people to help that country become self sustaining. Help ALL the countries out from under the foot of tyranny and corruption, not just the countries with oil.
I am so fed up with the Christian Right and neoCons who claim to be Christian when they don't seem to follow what he preaches in the slightest. Please, point to one section of the Bible where Jesus mentions homosexuality. Come on...there has to be one, right?
The Reverend elected to take over as president of the Christian Coalition of America said he will not assume the role because of differences in philosophy.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, of Longwood's Northland, A Church Distributed, said Wednesday that the national group would not let him expand the organization's agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.
"These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about," Hunter said.
"They pretty much said, 'These issues are fine, but they're not our issues, that's not our base,'" Hunter said.
NOT OUR BASE...they said. How can someone claim to be Christian, yet not adhere to the teachings and philosophy of Jesus Christ? I am not the most religious person in the world, but I do believe in what Jesus preached...be kind to your fellow man, help the needy. But more and more I am seeing that that is not what is on the mind of most of the Christian Right. They seem to be more concerned with the political hot topics like Abortion and Gay Rights. People in my town, starving? So what? There are two guys in San Francisco who want to get married...HOW DARE THEY! The very visible Christian Right are more concerned with political clout and raising money for themselves than in helping your fellow man. I see more and more rich people who claim to be Christian, claim to believe in what Jesus preached, yet feel that people need to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps." (Hmm....who said that?) Many don't have bootstraps to pull on, and need help and compassion.
Does this country try to help the world? Or just want to dominate it? If the current leadership is so religious and believes in God and Jesus, why don't they give more aid to countries in terms of food? Instead of paying our farmers NOT to grow food, grow the food and ship it to countries without. Or send people to help that country become self sustaining. Help ALL the countries out from under the foot of tyranny and corruption, not just the countries with oil.
I am so fed up with the Christian Right and neoCons who claim to be Christian when they don't seem to follow what he preaches in the slightest. Please, point to one section of the Bible where Jesus mentions homosexuality. Come on...there has to be one, right?
