5,000 preachers, from a variety of Christian denominations, called on President Obama and Congress to NOT cut services for the poor, citing Matthew 25:45 where Jesus says how one treats the lowest members of society is how you treat him. The group is organized by Sojourners, which is a group of Christians who all are concerned about social justice. One individual said "As I look out our country, what concerns me more ... is a radically individualistic attitude that says 'I got mine, it's completely up to you to get yours'...That's not the ethic of Jesus".
This is an extremely powerful point. Many people in America claim to be Christians, but they support a party that is antithetical to the Bible. Jesus railed against excessive wealth and warned that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into heaven (Matthew 19:24). Yet conservative Christians, through an astonishing act of cognitive dissonance, claim that Republicans are more in line with the Bible. It is preposterous and so uninformed that if one were to write it as answer to an exam question, it would receive an F.
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