{"id":8462,"date":"2012-07-24T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2012-07-24T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:47:22","slug":"republican-supply-side-jesus-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/republican-supply-side-jesus-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Supply-side Jesus on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have long said that the religious beliefs and practices of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians have far more in common with the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus\u2019 day than they do with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.  That is why I find it so frustrating that authentic Christians are often painted with the came brush as these hypocrites.  Frank Brunt pointed out this contrast extremely well.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24Bachmann\"What I find most fascinating about Michele Bachmann \u2014 and there are many, many more where she came from<\/strong> \u2014 is that she presents herself as a godly woman, humbly devoted to her Christian faith. I\u2019d like to meet that god, and I\u2019d like to understand that Christianity. <\/p>\n

Does it call for smearing people on the basis of flimsy conspiracy theories? That\u2019s what Bachmann just did to Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by essentially suggesting she might be a mole for the Muslim Brotherhood. <\/p>\n

Does it endorse scaring young women away from immunizations that could spare them serious illness? Bachmann did that during her memorable presidential campaign, when she blithely drew an unsubstantiated link<\/a> between a vaccine for the human papillomavirus and mental retardation. <\/p>\n

Does it encourage gratuitously divisive condemnations<\/a> of Barack Obama as \u201canti-American,\u201d one of many incendiary phrases in her attacks against him in 2008? And does it compel a war against homosexuality waged with the language and illogic she uses? <\/p>\n

She has said that gay men and lesbians are dysfunctional products of abuse and agents of \u201csexual anarchy,\u201d and when the singer and songwriter Melissa Etheridge was battling breast cancer years ago, Bachmann helpfully chimed in<\/a>: \u201cThis may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bachmann\u2019s concept of Christian love brims with hate, and she has a deep satchel of stones to throw. From what kind of messiah did she learn that?<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

To answer his question, she learned if from Republican Supply-side Jesus.  He is not the real Jesus.  He was invented by Republican Theocons to justify their perverted gospel of greed, hate, and control.<\/font><\/p>\n

The real Jesus focused on helping those in need and accepting people as is, as do authentic Christians today.<\/font><\/p>\n

The only difference between Bachmann and most of the Republican leadership is a matter of degree, a small matter at that.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have long said that the religious beliefs and practices of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians have far more in common with the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus\u2019 day than they do with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.  That is why I find it so frustrating that authentic Christians are often painted with the came […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}