Don’t Let ‘Christian Evangelists’ Hijack Teachings of Jesus
England was a Catholic nation, until Henry VIII replaced himself as the head of the church, which later morphed into the Church of England (the head is King Charles). The Catholic church is still overseen by Pope Leo (who won’t denounce bullfighting) and Orthodox Christianity is even older, but doesn’t answer to the Pope.
There are of course many other religions now in England. And as long as everything is peaceful, that’s fine.
But now we have so-called ‘evangelical Christians’, who are using the Bible to preach hatred and division (ironically in the same way that they sometimes accuse other religions of doing). All religions have a few zealots, but for the most part, all follow ‘the golden rule’.
Of treating others as you would wish to be treated.
This ‘them vs us’ mentality is now leading to ugly politics on both sides of the Atlantic. But Jesus ‘followers’ have forgotten that he was a peaceful simple man, who preached love and forgiveness.
If alive today, he would no doubt be protecting downtrodden people, innocent animals and saving the planet.
He never called poor people lazy, was never even slightly anti-gay. He was a long-haired, community-organising, authority-questioning, brown-skinned, Palestinian, unarmed homeless Jew. But only if you believe what’s actually in the Bible. John Fugelsang
Bring Back Your People is a book to bring the real issues of climate change and pollution back to a nasty politics more concerned with scaring people into voting for far-right beliefs.
The author is a preacher and leader of the Poor People’s Campaign in the USA, who even saw loved ones, get sucked into this new politics. He says, the price of gas is not the reason to spew politics of hate.
In the US recently, one bereaved father called out Trump and Vance for mentioning (without permission) the name of his son, accidentally killed by a Haiti immigrant. He asked them to stop using a genuine accident which involved the death of his son, for political gain.
I wish that my son was killed by a 60-year old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say anything so blunt. But if that guy killed my 11-year old son, the hate-spewing people would leave us alone. Nathan Clark (father of Aiden Clark speaking alongside his wife Danielle).
The same thing happened in England, when Boris Johnson used two murders, again to spew his own agenda:
Jack would be seething at his death (and his life) being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate. He believed in the goodness of humanity.
Borrow his intelligence, share his drive, feel his passion, burn with his anger and extinguish hatred with his kindness. Never give up his fight. David Merritt (father of Jack Merritt, who with Saskia Jones was killed in a London Bridge terrorist attack)
