https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/12/13/the-woke-liberal-leftist-movement-of-jesus/
The Woke, Liberal, Leftist Movement of Jesus
Jesus was a progressive.
He arrived two thousand years ago, not with vague religious nostalgia or territorial separatist dogma, but with a bold, clear vision that pulled disparate people forward together in interdependent community.
He started a revolutionary underground movement of the people of the street, not a top-down theocracy of wealth and cloistered privilege. His sermons didn’t harken back to some mythical glorious time in the past, he instead announced that the new Kingdom had now come: a new counterintuitive way of living and of being in the world marked by goodness and empathy.
Jesus was “woke.”
The radical activist declared us all responsible for our brothers, for our neighbors, even our enemies. His followers created interdependent communities where each was accountable to the other. He was a maker of peace, a turner of cheeks, a lover of all; a homeless, dark-skinned Jewish rabbi, who said that love of wealth would make it almost impossible to really see God or to live well.
History will show that when the elderly, the sick, and the vulnerable showed up in their need, it was the Progressives, the Muslims, the Jews, the Humanists, and the Atheists—not the Conservative Christians who cared for them as Jesus would have. They will have been the ones with the orphans and the widows, with the ignored and forgotten; all responding together in love in a way the followers of Christ were supposed to, but tired of.
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