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Jesus was a Liberal Democrat and a Socialist
Contributed • August 2, 2019

To the Editor:

Jesus was a Liberal Democrat and a Socialist. The defining message of the
four Christian Gospels and of Jesus himself was this: helping the poor;
healing the sick; clothe the naked; feed the hungry; uplift the underdog;
care of children; distribute wealth; be mindful of immigrant and stranger
in your land; etc.

By all the defining definitions of Liberal and Socialist, Jesus was most definitely both of them. He was also a rebel and a fighter for the poor, bullied and the displaced of his time.

The original beginnings of Christianity subsumed and preached this
message. It was all about the underdog, the downtrodden, those bullied by
elite powers, the sick and the poor. The Christian cult had its beginnings
in the teachings of the gospels of Jesus and they called themselves
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But something strange has happened to this Christian message in the 21st century, especially by those who call themselves evangelical conservative Christians under a Trump-led Republican Party.

All of the so-called Christian precepts outlined above, and what an
average Christian should so identify with, is no longer being practiced by
this Christian sect. In fact, it is all of its negatives: screw the poor;
let the sick suffer; let the naked work for his clothing; let the hungry starve; abuse the underdog; put children in cages; accumulate and hord
wealth; reject immigrants, etc.

Actually, their Christian message and beliefs are no longer Christian but atheistically authoritarian, the very evils that Jesus railed and preached against.

Nothing riles the average Christian believer more than welfare. Mention so
and so down the street who is on welfare and a typical modern supposed Christian goes ballistic. This new proposal by so called Christian
Republicans and Trump to take 3.2 million citizens off food stamps sends
them all into a tizzy. “Finally”, they rail, “let these lazy (expletive)
work for their food and clothing!”.

I won’t go into all of the reasons why some, at times, have to depend on assistance and food stamps as this would take more written space than this letter allows. But I will speak about the monumental hypocrisy of these supposed conservative Christians when it comes to practicing in real life
the precepts of their religious beliefs.

The Christianity as practiced by modern evangelical Christians, subsumed
under a conservative Republican party, is no longer a religion that
supports the teachings of its founder, Jesus Christ. It is, rather, now a
cult of a supposed white race and fanatical nationalism, a belief system
that is so far removed from what Jesus preached that I would suggest that
they call their new cult Trumpian and their new religion Trumpianity!

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