Our old friends at PragerU just came out with a "was Jesus a socialist?" video that concludes with Jesus helping a homeless man become an entrepreneur with the aid of a wealthy investor.
Biblical interpretation isn't really our primary role, but perhaps something is amiss here.
Biblical interpretation isn't really our primary role, but perhaps something is amiss here.
It's hard to see this as anything other than a strained attempt to align religion with a secular political ideology (and, obviously, people do this on the left as well).
That's not good either for politics or for religion.
That's not good either for politics or for religion.
We're a non-sectarian org, but many of are members are committed Christians (and members of other faiths too!) who see the ASP as one way they can live out their faith in the public sphere.
That's a different thing than subordinating faith to partisanship.
That's a different thing than subordinating faith to partisanship.
Likewise, the political tradition we belong to, Christian Democracy, came from people who were attempting to apply Christian teachings about human dignity to modern political situations. We don't downplay that legacy.
But...
But...
Having said that, please call us out if we ever try to tell you that Jesus definitely would have opened a worker's co-op with the lepers of Jerusalem.
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