Do You Really Want to Hear Jesus Say -- photo FB

[Donnachaidh]

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

Outstanding. Thank you.

[ZombieHorde]

2. I really like these "The Christian Left" posters I have been seeing.

The posters have been great.

[ThatsMyBarack]

15. I'll have to Google that for more!

[Ruby the Liberal]

68. Me too. This is the second one I have seen.

Is there a website for this group?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Put in email, sent to friends and family..... thanks for that. n/t Recced btw, nt

[calimary]

11. Yeah! Definitely! Needs to be said, read, and spread!

I posted it on my FB page.

[alfredo]

53. Same here. I downloaded it to my drive and posted from there.

That makes for a larger thumbnail.

[demmiblue]

4. A big K&R!

[calimary]

5. Breathtaking!

That's the whole point. The whole argument. In one poster. Just freakin' NAILS it.

Dear God, have we really become that heartless? Is THIS what America is now?

[Joe Bacon]

20. Yes, this is what the Religious Right has accomplished!

THe American Right enthroned a new God--Ayn Rand!

[workinclasszero]

26. You are right...Ayn Rand is their god!

Right wing republicanism has infected and killed so many churches in America.

They are blind and their hearts are hardened by the love of money.

[OneGrassRoot]

44. The irony is that Rand was an atheist and felt abortion...

was a moral right.

If they only knew. But, facts are inconvenient for people like that.

[dixiegrrrrl]

52. Historically, America has been that heartless all along.

With a few shining moments of reform, then a cycle back to rich/poor discrepancies.
but not just America...recall the stories of Dickens' London...the workhouses, the debtor jails, the bulging orphanages.
the last 2 major periods of reform were in Roosevelt's 1930's and LNJ's War on Poverty.
Now the cycle is swinging, as it does, to the right, and it will continue until enough people band together to make it stop.
Most cycles last 20-30 years...average.

[RKP5637]

6. K&R !!! n/t

[William769]

7. K&R.

"Jesus died for your homophobia"

[roguevalley]

8. god is dog spelled backwards. jesus is sitting with them

[B Calm]

41. That dog in the pic is sitting on his God's lap.

[roguevalley]

9. double post

[lunatica]

10. In Berkeley I see this pretty frequently

The people may look scraggly but the dogs always look well care for. Always.

[MADem]

12. Wasn't that what that nice lad was all about, though?

Feeding the hungry, clothing and sheltering the poor, caring for the sick, destitute, etc?

The only time Jesus got pissed was in the temple, at those moneychangers. Other than that, he was pretty accepting of all sorts, and a nice fellow--by all historical reports, anyway.

[truedelphi]

22. Ain't tit totally bizarre - none of these

Old Testament quoting, St Paul quoting "Christians" seem very fond of the story of Jesus and the money changers...

[whathehell]

42. I'll give you a quote from Jesus they are even less fond of:

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than

for a rich man to enter into heaven".

You won't hear much of that in Republican circles.

[ThomThom]

48. in some churches they have turned that around and think

if you have money god has smiled on you
really it is the work of the devil
praise the lord

[whathehell]

61. That is my understanding of what Calvinism preached even way back when.

and Calvinism, I believe, turned into modern day "Presbyterianism",

although I don't know if they still hold by the "rich are blessed" tenet.

[Bozvotros]

73. Rowan Atkinson nails it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-4ATrE8n0

[mcar]

13. Brilliant!

I'm going to look this up. Thanks.

[russspeakeasy]

14. Thanks...

[WillyT]

16. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[ThatsMyBarack]

17. Found THIS!

[Ken Burch]

18. When I see that poster, it makes me think of the Joan Osborne song "One of Us"

"...What if God was one of us.
Just a slob, like one of us.
Just a stranger on the bus,
Trying to make his way home..."

Or the Bruce Cockburn Christmas song with these lines

"...But it isn't to the palace that the Christ child comes,
but to shepards and street people, hookers and bums..."

[truedelphi]

23. Those are great songs

By two tremendously gifted song writers.

[nolabear]

65. What's the name of the Bruce Cockburn song?

I tried "Christmas Song" but that's a different one.

[Ken Burch]

77. It's "Cry Of A Tiny Babe".

Here's a version where Bruce sings it along with Lou Reed and Roseanne Cash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlX4cDAkz44

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I am so using that.

Thank you.

[silverweb]

21. Check out their whole gallery!

http://www.thechristianleft.org/gallery/gallery

[oldhippydude]

50. about time

i am agnostic, with perhaps a smathering of Zen.. but i bookmarked that sight, damn glad those christians are out there..

[silverweb]

69. Ditto.

Our religious leanings are the same page (mine also with a smattering of neopaganism), and I'm thrilled to see this site and its wonderful gallery.

[blue_roses_lib]

24. Awesome!! nt

[workinclasszero]

25. Great!

I can never understand someone claiming to be a follower of Jesus Christ, condemning the poor, the sick, the homeless, and unemployed to damnation for the "sin" of no $$$!

It is soo damn wrong on every level imaginable and if you are a believer as I am, Jesus himself will tell it to their faces someday!

[aletier_v]

33. OWS made me see this

the reaction on FR was so unchristian, so borderline evil...

God has forsaken them, but not for the reasons that they believe.

They follow fal$e idol$ like Palin & Cain.

And they still don't see it.

[RainDog]

27. k&r n/t

[DeSwiss]

28. Hoist by their own petard. - K&R n/t

[Beartracks]

29. K&R n/t

[tblue]

30. Nailed it! nt

[From The Ashes]

31. This reminds me of this one:

[Divernan]

32. Excellent OP - can you please give me the FB link so I can share this?

Another reply in this thread gave the link to the whole gallery, but within that, I found no way to link to just that single photo/poster.

[hangvu]

34. god

great

[Fire Walk With Me]

35. K&R!

[Moostache]

36. Love the sentiment....

But we all know that "Jeebus" is a meaningless cipher for the right wing...their version conveniently omits the love, peace and caring and focuses everything on retribution and vengeance. What amazes me is sheer volume of hatred for their fellow man that the right wing is capable of spewing forth.

[aletier_v]

37. signs

Palin's cowardice.
Cain's vices.

These were signs.
OWS forced me to introspect and realize this.

It's amazing, it's so clear now.

How can they NOT see it?

[treestar]

55. True. And they will also claim that it means charity and

not government involvement.

Of course the government has to be fair. But a charity can discriminate or attempt to control people they help. And that's what right wingers crave. People to control, to feel superior to.

[Enthusiast]

38. Kicked and recommended! nt

[madrchsod]

39. that`s going up on my facebook page....

proud to be a christian leftist......

[SpiralHawk]

40. Touche

whatever

[paparush]

43. Here's a few more I've been seeing lately

[AlbertCat]

45. Hmmmmmm....

Using guilt as a tool. Just like they do.

I guess its fighting fire with fire.

[NOLALady]

67. I don't feel guilty about that photo.

I feel anxious.

There, but for the grace of God...

[Mad_Dem_X]

46. I wish I could recommend this more than once.

That picture alone breaks my heart.

[whathehell]

59. I'm with you on that one.

[knitter4democracy]

47. Finally, a Christian group on-line I can join!

From their website: "Bottom Line: We welcome ALL to their place at God’s table, just as they are. All means ALL. No exceptions. We reject all attempts to define our Faith by the two wedge issues of Gay Marriage and Abortion." Damn straight.

http://www.thechristianleft.org /

Something to pray over today.

[Narkos]

49. K&r

[Bryn]

51. K & R

[treestar]

54. That's really good

Shows up the "Christian" right for what they really are.

[Safetykitten]

56. Meanwhile at the Mega-plex church....

[usrname]

57. This Christian left

Is kinda new, but christian-ness left the right many, many years ago.

[OhioChick]

58. Rec n/t

[LWolf]

60. k&r

[rbnyc]

62. My elderly Uncle George...

...often forwards Christian chain email to me. Most recently, he sent one about how hanging bird feeders just encourages lazy, unwanted, parasitic birds to plague your lawn. It was apparently somehow a retelling of some Bible story that obviously meant that social welfare creates bums. I really don't remember the details, but it was something like that. It's hard for me to know how to respond because he's very old, and I think his growing attachment to religious propaganda is an expression of dementia.

Anyway, I am going to send him this.

[ladyVet]

63. simple and to the point

This crazy pagan agrees 100% with the picture/sentiment. This kind of Christians I can get along with.

[caseymoz]

64. Conservatives will revise the Bible before they will reconsider.

Honestly, they're doing it at Conservapedia. They're convinced that Jesus actually meant something else and those liberal translators have been corrupting his real words all these centuries.

You talk about inviting a schism and a religious war. If this comes to fruition, it would officially make conservatism into either a sect or a cult depending on your semantics.

It does a present the question: why the Hell would any God pass his word off in a way where it must become corrupted? Can't he just talk to everyone, including the sinful, the way he talked to Moses, Joshua, the Prophets, all those people, including the sinful, and not bother to have any of it written and communicated through flawed human beings? Why all these middlemen who are indistinguishable from cult leaders like Jim Jones or L. Ron Hubbard?

Since I'm an atheist, I could ask these questions without

[LeftishBrit]

66. I'm an atheist, but I think these posters are great!

[xxqqqzme]

70. Wow!

I know some rethuglican 'Christians' that will be extremely uncomfortable w/ that poster.

[xxqqqzme]

71. delete

[Vinca]

72. Be sure to forward it to them.

A very moving picture . . . and I'm an atheist.

[LiberalLovinLug]

74. The Red Letter Christians

This is an organization that promotes a kind of Christianity that focuses on Jesus words in the Bible before all else. They are anti-war and against capital punishment and are for helping those in need. You wouldn't think this would be radical, after all the term Christian has the name of that religious figure right in its title. But their founder Tony Campolo has been barred from speaking in many southern "Christian" churches. It doesn't fit with many of these neoChristian beliefs. ie. War is good. Fear those who don't look like you. Hate your enemies. God likes you if you are rich and hates you if you are poor. Eye for and Eye. etc..

http://www.redletterchristians.org/start/

[LiberalLovinLug]

75. The Red Letter Christians

This is an organization that promotes a kind of Christianity that focuses on Jesus words in the Bible before all else. They are anti-war and against capital punishment and are for helping those in need. You wouldn't think this would be radical, after all the term Christian has the name of that religious figure right in its title. But their founder Tony Campolo has been barred from speaking in many southern "Christian" churches. It doesn't fit with many of these neoChristian beliefs. ie. War is good. Fear those who don't look like you. Hate your enemies. God likes you if you are rich and hates you if you are poor. Eye for and Eye. etc..

http://www.redletterchristians.org/start/

[evrstrong]

76. I'm surprised by everyone's reaction to this poster....

because of course Jesus would never react that way. He would forgive him/her their sins and
love the person regardless...Jesus would probably thank the person for their concern that
he had no job, and offer to do some work for him. His concern, always, would be for the
person who was having a problem, and doing so, would "teach" him a lesson.