12/02/2025
One of the major ways the gospel has been politicized is that righteousness and right behavior have been reduced to ONLY 3 "Thou shalt nots": have gay s*x, engage in elective abortion, and change s*x. There is NO QUESTION that the Christian Church has been manipulated into this by Conservative think tanks and political organizations.
You're right on those issues, but they are not the only issues. There is no question in my mind that money and power are at the heart of the conservative movement. They are the primary reasons that 80 or so trillion dollars have been funneled upwards to the super wealthy, and that heavily influences every societal evil from extreme poverty to abortion, to immigration, to wars, and so on.
Do you understand that a person like Jeff Bezos pays less than 1% of his income in taxes and that he undermines the principles of free markets by exerting undue influence on markets and lawmakers? You do understand that we have corporate socialism, where a small number of companies get billions in subsidies that they never pay, even in times of hyper profitability?
When and where in the Bible did a prophet or an Apostle ever instruct someone to choose the supposed lesser evil, or, more importantly, fail to call out evil on both sides? For example, didn't the prophets call out both the evil of the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdoms before their destruction? Didn't they call out the evil of the nations surrounding Israel as well? Did Jesus or the Apostles pick sides with the Pharisees and Sadducees? How about the Herodians and the Zealots? In fact, the Pharisees and the Zealots remind me a lot of the modern conservatives with extreme nationalism and their extreme focus on money and success.
