Dangerous Liberals.

I keep hearing comments, primarily from across the pond, but in the UK, too, how dangerous the liberals are. They will ultimately destroy everything.

I also heard a comment by two people in discussion. One answered some question by saying, “But I am a Christian!” The other person answered, “What kind of Christian? A Republican Christian? Or a Jesus Christian?”

That set me thinking. I wonder if Jesus was anti-liberal, or maybe was he a “dangerous liberal.”

So I wondered, wasn't this Jesus the one that turned water into wine? My friend Gerald Coates always said, “The Evangelical Christians had spent the last 2,000 years trying to change it back again.” Such a liberal thing to do, don't you think?

Then I note the story of the stoning of the lady caught in adultery. I have always wondered how she committed adultery by herself. What happened to the man? Jesus said he did not condemn her. Indeed, that is far too liberal. we should be in the condemning business, shouldn't we?

Another time, Jesus says, I must go via Samaria. Did He not know that good religious people never went to Samaria? Yet Jesus said he MUST go there? Such a terrible liberal thing to do.

If you know anything about history, you will know that the Samaritans were the immigrants in the land with a different religion. No wonder anti-liberals would have nothing to do with them. Jesus, it seems was just too liberal.

I just saw a list of things that Jesus never said on the internet. By Jame Martin, SJ. It goes like this: Jesus never said, "Feed the hungry only if they have papers." "Clothe the naked only if they're from your country. "Welcome the stranger only if there's zero risk." "Help the poor only if it's convenient." "Love your neighbour only if they look like you".

So, in the UK, there is a protest in a particular part of the country, as a supermarket has just opened in that area on a Sunday. There are people outside parading with posters on sticks saying, “Keep the Sabbath Holy,” i.e. “Don't work on Sunday”. Jesus was just too liberal and was reprimanded on several occasions for doing just that, working on the Sabbath.

I think I will be a Liberal Jesus follower; it seems a much better way to go.

Jesus was definitely a dangerous liberal; I want to follow that.

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Adrian Hawkes.

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