[Vision2020] Merry Christmas

[keely emerinemix]

I don't think Jesus Christ would have been asked to address the GOP convention, and I think his biggest detractors, if he were here today, would be the religious right.  Further, I think Jesus was a liberal in the social sense and wouldn't recognize -- certainly not approve of -- the politics of some of his most vocal followers.  Above all, and what I've been trying to say, is that he wouldn't do what he did because of adherence to a philosophical point on the spectrum; he transcends these things and has left us to wrestle with whether we want to be right, left, or on the 50-yard-line, OR if we want to be righteous.

And my testpoint for that is:  how does it affect the "least of these" in society, and does it glorify God in spirit and in truth?

Nope.  The Bush tax cut just didn't . . . cut it.

keely
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  Keely et. al.

  What stand would Christ take on the huge tax cuts of the Bush administration giving billions back to the ultra-rich while working single mothers with children can barely "survive" on minimum wage ($5.15 hr.) jobs?

  And if your answer is that he would have wanted to give some of those billions to the hard working deserving poor, rather than back to the ultra-rich, and/or raise the minimum wage, I don't care what path Christ would have taken to shed "labels," the Religious Right in the USA would plaster him with a big sign declaring him a "tax and spend liberal."  Well, that is, unless they knew who he was, or who he was claiming to be, in which case they might label him a fraud, or actually be shamed into facing their betrayal of Christ's values.

  If your answer is that Christ would have approved of the Bush administration tax cuts, and all they imply, and/or that he would not advocate raising the minimum wage, I am wrong.

  Ted Moffett

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