Though
conservatives are accused of cramming their morality down people’s throats, it
is most often progressives who shamelessly politicize Jesus.
Recently a Community Column writer
for a local paper wrote an opinion piece denouncing conservative politicians
for not complying with the “Red-Letter” teachings of Jesus. Among other things,
he was referring more specifically to Ted Cruz’s call for evangelical
Christians to help his political bloc to defund Obamacare. This claim is worthy
of careful examination.
Emphasizing the authority of one portion of scripture
while ignoring all others isn’t a principle of historical normative Christian
theology…….…“ Red-lettering was first conceived in 1899, and it first appeared
in Bibles in 1901. So from the time when the canon of scripture was closed,
until the turn of the 20th century, there was no special theological emphasis
on colored printing…..Red print may be a helpful resource, but there is no hint
anywhere that the red printing is more important than the black printing…..“Red-Letter
Christians” emphasize the red print in the Gospels to amplify social justice
themes while deemphasizing the moral instruction found in the Pauline epistles……Many
in the red-letter crowd emphasize but a few texts of scripture rather than the
whole of the red-letters. These people tend to be theologically shallow and
would feel uncomfortable to discover some of the harder sayings of Jesus…..ToRead More…..
My Take - So are we to believe the left actually cares
what Jesus said? We need to understand that the goal of the left is to use our
own values against us. And they do this in order to undermine and destroy the
two things that are foundational to the American way of life is U.S.
Constitution and the Bible, both representing Judaic/Christian values. and they
have been incredibly successful in their efforts because as a society we are
incredibly ignorant of both. How can a
society that is ignorant of it foundational values stand?
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