The God-forsakin' Blog

It's weird how much Jesus gets invoked to justify economic policies that protect the wealth of people who have more than they or their descendants could ever need. Time after time Jesus made it very clear that he was not on their side. There's t he whole "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle" passage. And there's the Beatitudes - a whole chapter of "Woe unto the rich". And the parable of the rich man and Lazarus the beggar. And the parable of the Good Samaritan, and the parable of the sheep and the goats, and the time Mr. Blessed-Are-The-Peacemakers PHYSICALLY ATTACKED bankers and drove them out of the Temple while screaming at them that they had made a house of prayer into a den of thieves... Any time Jesus said anything about wealth or wealthy people, it was to demand they use their wealth to help the poor, on pain of everlasting torment. Hell, even the leaders of the French Revolution only executed the aristocracy, they didn't care...

  Ever since the "religious right" propelled Trump into office, I've wondered every day - how did they end up selling their souls so suddenly and so completely? How did they go all in on supporting a man who incarnates the opposite of everything they preach? How do they keep seeing him as a King David when the only Biblical figure he actually resembles is clearly the Antichrist? And I don't know why it's taken me eight years to see the obvious answer: The religious right was NEVER about principles.  It's about power, and always has been.