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Nov 27th, 2006 at 9:31 am by Susie
Obviously this guy didn’t understand the corporate culture into which he was buying:
The Florida pastor recently tapped to lead the Christian Coalition of America resigned his position in a dispute about conservative philosophy - more than a month before he was to fully assume his post, he said this week.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, of Northland, A Church Distributed, in Longwood, Fla., said he quit as president-elect of the group founded by evangelist Pat Robertson because he realized he would be unable to broaden the organization’s agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.
He hoped to include issues such as easing poverty and saving the environment.
“These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about,†Hunter said.
“These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about,†Hunter said.
Perhaps because Jesus said not word one about queers - and more than a little bit about social justice issues?
Response from the Christian Coalition was, “Jesus who?”.
Don’t you know Pat talks to God regularly and I’m sure they’re going to come out with a revised Bible anyday now getting rid of those pesky things like caring for the poor, sick, etc. and include the important stuff like abortion and gay marriage. Plus they will make sure that references to every one is complete, God (R-Heaven) and Satan (D-Hell) so it’s crystal clear to everyone.
It’s nice to see a religious leader with some
principles.
He’s unmasked the Christian Coalition as a
narrow-agenda political group that has nothing
to do with Christianity.
Jesus actually had a lot to say about the kinds of people who mask themselves in religion to conceal their greed and lust for power. He considered them to be the very worst kind of sinners.
If you try to cut through the crap that has been added through the ages to the things that it is pretty clear that Jesus actually said, he was clearly telling us to “do unto others as we would have them do unto us” in every area.. If you just stick to that advice, you can’t go wrong.
I don’t think that these theocrats have a clue.
BTW, Jesus’s younger (half?) brother James said - after his death, that arguments about Jesus’s divinity were irrelevant, and that Jesus’s primary message was that we were to help others..