Tearing the Body of Christ – was He a Liberal or a Conservative?

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Tearing the Body of Christ – was He a Liberal or a Conservative?

I stumbled across a well-written article on a vast site of well-written articles entitled, “Wasn’t Jesus a Liberal?” by Gary Vance. I’m sure that there are many other such articles – left and right.

But as a relative outsider I’m wondering if this is not an unholy clawing at the body of the Good Lord. My own assumption is that Christ was above such categorization or sidings with interest groups. I’m assuming that Christ was interested in Republicans being better human beings – and the same for Democrats – and all others. But people want to claim Him for themselves This conflating of two or more concerns really is at the base of so many troubles. Politics today is about economics mainly

Politics is politics.

Spirituality is spirituality

Morality is morality.

Religion is religion.

All are inter-related but they are not to be confused.

Perhaps a separation that created some clarity for me will help. All my life people had spoken of morality and spirituality in ways that made them often seem synonymous. But it was not until a few years ago that this statement brought some light on the matter; ‘Spirituality is the source of the will to act morally’.

Conflation is deceit.

The article

The Common Dreams site

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