Jesus, Save Us From Your Followers Continued...

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Brittany Cooper penned a powerful and provocative essay for Salon.com, entitled The right's made-up God:  How bigots invented a white supremacist Jesus. 

As a practicing Christian, I am deeply incensed by these calls for restoration and reclamation in the name of religious freedom. This kind of legislation is largely driven by conservative Christian men and women, who hold political views that are antagonistic to every single group of people who are not white, male, Christian, cisgender, straight and middle-class. Jesus, a brown, working-class, Jew, doesn’t even meet all the qualifications.

Nothing drives this point home like Left in Alabama Blogger countrycats' we must laugh to keep from crying account of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore praising "Plessy v. Ferguson  minutes after a group of African-American pastors hung a "Letter from the Birmingham Jail Courage Award" around his neck. Seriously, that's what happened yesterday in Montgomery".    

Watch the video here.  And note just how, well... white... the assembly is for a "Coalition of African American Pastors" event.

Before I turn the blog over to countrycat let me say this...it is our responsibility to be a bold witness and stop letting the right wing  use Jesus to justify their own prejudices.  Jesus didn't hate women, minorities, the poor and  LBGT's.   Jesus didn't say come whomever will as long as you look, think, and act like bigots.  As a matter of fact  Matthew 25:40 English Standard Version of the Bible reads:  And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

It is our responsibility to be a bold witness and say hate and bigotry is not God's way. 

"What so ever we sow, so shall we reap"~Galatians 6:7

RedEye stepping down out of the pulpit...for now.

If it's Sunday it's time to Meet the Pest 2nd Edition

Kyle Whitmire takes the prize for the best headline of the decade. Pun intended? Or, another surge for Mr. Goody Two Shoes?  I thought republicans didn't like elitist snobs?

 

Alabama U.S. Rep. Bob Aderholt says he will BACK Santorum in Alabama's republican primary.  I wonder why?  

Willard Mitt Romney needs a Cadillac strategy.  I wonder what part of the state of Michigan doesn't like him doesn't he understand?

Just because a group labels themselves moral or the majority doesn't make it true.  WE are the majority.  And WE are right! Pun intended

The  white, male, red, republican, Alabama Legislature, introduced the Let's make Sen. Greg Reed (republican 5) richer bill.  Yee Haw!  And they say democrats are unethical and corrupt?  Yeah right. Pun intended.

Bill Maher tells  rich democrats to get off their rich Donkey's and donate to super Pacs supporting President Obama or else.