While many on the political right say they’ve “found Jesus”, the story of the Jesus they’ve found is the one they’ve largely written themselves – the one in which a vengeful Jesus wields his cross as a sword and a shield. That’s not the Jesus I know.
I personally know many on the right who recognize this. They recognize that their party has been hijacked by those who’ve taken scissors to their Bibles and cut them so severely that their version now begins with the Old Testament and ends with Revelations, with little resembling Jesus’ teachings left in between. Read the rest of this entry »