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20101220

Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips Wants To See Methodist Church Disbanded


for all the very very very very many faults of the Bible, it stresses social justice almost from Genesis. over and over, the Jews and the Christians are told by God, prophets and teachers to help and give to the sick and poor and oppressed, the widowed and the orphaned, AND the stranger. Jesus was the highest examplar of those teachings.



it's almost difficult NOT to find instances of social justice in the Bible. for all the rhetoric to the contrary, it's there, and i speak as one who speaks out, on a regular basis, against the hypocrisy and idolatry that much of American Christiani­ty has become in the past thirty years.



i wonder at the type of religious worldview that denies the plain words and substitute­s them for political rhetoric. . .and i wonder if Judson Phillips ever read one sentence from the Bible. . .



this is the supreme ignorance which some Americans have elected to leadership of the country. it tells quite a bit, not only about the state of political discourse, but the state of relligious belief in the United States. . .
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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