Have you ever noticed that nearly all Republican politicians claim to be Christians—but they never mention Jesus or his teachings? I have. Pay attention the next time you see a Conservative member of Congress parading their supposed faith in a press conference, stump speech, or FoxNews fluff piece. (It shouldn’t take long.) You’ll notice they use words […]
From the essay:
This isn’t an oversight, it’s a necessity. There’s a simple reason for the omission: they can’t gaslight us with the words of Jesus. You see, over the past few decades, these people have become experts at slapping a shiny veneer of religion onto the most abominable of ideas and the most sociopathic of behaviors.
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They can’t make him say what they want him to say or get him to consent to their brutal wills—so they’ve simply erased him.
The Sermon on the Mount, his central treatise, is antithetical to the Republican ethos.
Republicans’ Jesus-less Christianity




















