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Need to be going to sleep, but just finished doing a small segment on "Real Time with Bill Maher." Like most of these interviews, I was piped in via satellite, so I wasn't actually in the studio. But I was struck by this:
At some point, in response to a question, I said that yes, Jesus actually does love everyone and that includes Democrats and liberals and homosexuals. The audience just erupted in applause. Here is the simple takeaway--people love Jesus, they just disapprove of his self-appointed PR people who portray him as political and narrow and angry.
Maybe Jesus came to set us free so that sometimes we could turn around and set him free of the narrow portraits people paint of him.
Jesus and Bill Maher
Saturday October 21, 2006
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J-Walking
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"Did not Jesus say that if we teach the man to fish we would be better off as opposed to giving him a fish?" Actually, Tim, he didn't. You might be thinking of Rush Limbaugh, who would just be parroting an old saying. Jesus miraculously fed the multitude with fish. He didn't teach them how to fish. He didn't preach self-sufficiency. He didn't endorse the welfare state, either, but I don't think we should attribute Republican talking points to Christ. He transcends wordly politics of every stripe.
Posted by: JT | October 24, 2006 9:08 PM
nameless mouthless one I'm truly sorry you are so unhappy -- I guess a godless world isn't very pleasant. I expect you won't like this, but I'll pray for you anyway. We are all judgmental, Christian or not, most of us are not very good at it and some of us are downright annoying. Which is probably why we are admonished not to do it.
Posted by: s holmgren | October 24, 2006 9:28 PM
so the basic premis... jesus loves us all. he just loves homos, muslims, hindus and other heathens just a little less. or the same, he just judges them on a different scale because those are somehow the worst of all the sins which are the same in his sight. he is profound! your collective faiths astound me. any of you heard of mercy or grace? because all you self righteous people here that don't seem to understand that you have not stopped, neither do you have the capacity to stop sinning. just because you don't do it in someone elses butt or on your knees facing mecca 5 times a day or in front of a 4 armed statue, doesnt mean you have some kind of a special pass to grace that all of the other "lower" sinners don't have. your fake christianty and hypocritical understanding of grace is waht drives people away from the saviour. good job!!!
Posted by: Jesus Loves Muslims | October 26, 2006 3:47 AM
Its good to know so many know so much about Jesus and what He believes. I'm surprised He didn't get the lot of you to write His book. Now how many of you have had children that did things that were totally unacceptable to you but yet you loved them. Silly ones....Jesus loves, that doesn't mean He approves. It would ultimately be better for you if you came around to His way of thinking. I thought I might write a book and them you could rewrite it for me. Of course given your penchant for taking such broad liberties with another's book...maybe I'll just hold off on that. So just for the record if you look at snow and call it rain...it isn't and if you look at black and call it white...guess what? It doesn't change the facts. God's Word says that homosexuality is sin. Says the taking of innocent life is murder. Never have I found anything more innocent than an unborn child.
Yet Jesus loves us... Problem is, there's going to be a judgement day one day. And then He will ask why His love did change us... And who will answer.
Posted by: lrhattrich | October 26, 2006 10:57 AM
I am a little late to this discussion, but I have a real question for those who intepret the bible literally. And when I say real question, I mean it. This isn't meant as a flame. I have seen the bible scriptures against homosexuality. You don't have to quote them again for me. But what I don't get is how you can say Jesus/Paul are for heterosexual marriage. Didn't Paul instruct the early Christians not to get married? Didn't Jesus deny Mary as his mother? Didn't Jesus pull his apostles away from their families to follow him? It just seems to me that Jesus wasn't for families at all. I think he saw them as "of this world" and distractions.
I am just wondering if anyone has a response to this.
Posted by: Married in MA | October 29, 2006 4:46 PM
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