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.

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