Rise Up, You Suckers, And Go Out

If We Were To Set Out To Establish A Religion In Polar Opposition To The Beatitudes Jesus Taught, It Would Look Strikingly Similar To The Pop Christianity That Has Taken Over The Airwaves Of North America.

Jesus Refers To The Poor Over And Over Again. There Are 2,000 Verses Of Scripture That Call Upon Us To Respond To The Needs Of The Poor. And Yet, I Find That When Christians Talked About Values In This Last Election That Was Not On The Agenda, That Was Not A Concern. If You Were To Get The Voter Guide Of The Christian Coalition, That Does Not Rate. They Talk More About Tax Cuts For People Who Are Wealthy Than They Do About Helping Poor People Who Are In Desperate Straits.

Rise Up, You Suckers, And Go Out And Do The Work Of Jesus!

One Of The Problems With Evangelicalism Is That It Has Allowed Itself To Be Married To The Republican Party... Jesus Is Not A Republican. Nor Is He A Democrat.

There Is No Doubt That Religion Had Already Waned Under The Onslaught Of The Enlightenment, But It Was Freud Who Provided The Radically New Understanding Of Human Nature That Made Any Religious Explanation Of The Whats And Whys Of Our Personhood Seem Naive.