The Left is quick to culturally appropriate Jesus and re-invent Him into their own image.
[I]t is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don’t rock the boat but don’t even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds.
Talk about man creating God in his own image! Sometimes—and this seems the greatest irony of all—these folks invoke the name of Jesus as one who was this kind of “comfortable” God. Really? He who said not only should we not break commandments, but we should not even think about breaking them. And if we do think about breaking them, we have already broken them in our heart. Does that sound like “comfortable” doctrine, easy on the ear and popular down at the village love-in?
And what of those who just want to look at sin or touch it from a distance? Jesus said with a flash, if your eye offends you, pluck it out. If your hand offends you, cut it off. “I came not to [bring] peace, but a sword,” He warned those who thought He spoke only soothing platitudes. No wonder that, sermon after sermon, the local communities “pray[ed] him to depart out of their coasts.” No wonder, miracle after miracle, His power was attributed not to God but to the devil. It is obvious that the bumper sticker question “What would Jesus do?” will not always bring a popular response.
Christianity (and many practicing Christians) may default to the warm, fuzzy “God is Love” phrase — but there is no period after “Love.” It isn’t a complete sentence let alone a complete thought.
In the wake of the Indiana RFRA hatefest, Leftists thought to mock Christians with the #ThingsJesusNeverSaid hashtag. Yet, it gave opportunity for others to definitively point out Jesus’ message wasn’t exclusively about forgiveness.
"Go forth and sin some more."
#ThingsJesusNeverSaid
— darleenclick (@darleenclick) April 2, 2015
With this year’s Easter and Passover celebrations coinciding this weekend, the time for celebrating, and clarifying, the tenets of the Judeo-Christian heritage is particularly apt.
happy easter pw
Just off the top of my head:
“Render unto Caesar what is G-d’s.”
“Do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.”
they took away the Blue Bell
The fact that God is Love, i.e. merciful, means precisely nothing unless God is also our judge and that judgment exists. For mercy is meaningless unless it relieves us from some sort of condemnation. That’s what the Progressive Left always forgets or attempts to whitewash from the Gospel.