Left-Wing Jesus?

Posted by Brian Tubbs Mar 14, 2007

It's interesting the number of politicians, pundits, and voters who ascribe to Jesus certain ideologies and perspectives on issues. Would Jesus support Social Security? welfare? school prayer? gay rights? higher social services spending?

Columnist Dennis Prager weighs in on this issue in a TownHall column.

Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards told an interviewer from the religious website beliefnet.com that Jesus "would be disappointed" at how little Americans help the destitute who live among them. Jesus, Mr. Edwards said, "would be appalled" at our selfishness.

In the view of John Edwards and other Christians on the Left, Jesus would raise taxes, promote single-payer, i.e., socialized, medicine, be pro-choice and advocate same-sex marriage. But most of all, Jesus would be anti-war, opposed to the military and essentially be a pacifist...

To read the rest of the op-ed, please follow the link...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2007/03/13/jesus_was_no_leftist

Let us know what YOU think here....

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