5 ways the Christian right is twisting religion to push conservative dogma Amanda Marcotte, Alternet FRIDAY, DEC 20, 2013 1) Arguing that Jesus was a capitalist. 2) Labor unions are anti-Christian 3) Jesus wanted poor people to starve. 4) Religion means your employer should be all up in your business 5) God doesn’t want you to preserve the environment “Most politicians who identify with the Christian right are eager to pounce on the theological arguments against protecting the planet, trying to recast their selfish desire to protect corporate profits, even at the expense of the planet and the human race’s health, as nothing but God’s work.” “What all these examples show is the inherent danger of mixing politics and religion, because religion can be whatever the believer wants it to be. It might seem like an aggressive misreading of the Bible to imagine, as the Christian right does, that Jesus was a laissez faire capitalist who wasn’t bothered by poverty or pollution, but since religion is a matter of asserting belief instead of making logical arguments, in the end it doesn’t really matter.” salon/2013/12/20/5_ways_the_christian_right_is_twisting_religion_to_push_conservative_dogma_partner/
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