{"id":7905,"date":"2006-07-11T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T17:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7905.html"},"modified":"2006-07-11T13:59:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T17:59:37","slug":"we-are-furious-that-the-religious-right-has-made-jesus-into-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/we-are-furious-that-the-religious-right-has-made-jesus-into-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are furious that the religious right has made Jesus into a Republican&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly but surely, the burgeoning &#8220;[tag]religious left[\/tag]&#8221; seems not only to be generating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/07\/09\/eveningnews\/main1786860.shtml\">some media attention<\/a>, but also some compelling soundbites.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. [tag]Bob Edgar[\/tag], General Secretary of the National Council of Churches: &#8220;Jesus never said one word about homosexuality, never said one word about civil marriage or abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. [tag]Tony Campolo[\/tag]: &#8220;We are furious that the religious right has made Jesus into a Republican. That&#8217;s idolatry. To recreate Jesus in your own image rather than allowing yourself to be created in Jesus&#8217; image is what&#8217;s wrong with politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. [tag]Jim Wallis[\/tag]: &#8220;Right now the war in Iraq costs us $1 billion per week. And we can&#8217;t get $5 billion over ten years for child care in this country?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before; I&#8217;ll say it again: &#8220;religious&#8221; is too often a synonym for &#8220;conservative.&#8221; That won&#8217;t change over night, but it&#8217;s encouraging to see likable, compelling figures step up into leadership roles in the &#8220;religious left.&#8221; They&#8217;re making a good-faith effort (pun intended) to change the landscape, and it&#8217;s long overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly but surely, the burgeoning &#8220;[tag]religious left[\/tag]&#8221; seems not only to be generating some media attention, but also some compelling soundbites. Dr. [tag]Bob Edgar[\/tag], General Secretary of the National Council of Churches: &#8220;Jesus never said one word about homosexuality, never said one word about civil marriage or abortion.&#8221; The Rev. [tag]Tony Campolo[\/tag]: &#8220;We are furious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}