"The right’s made-up God: How bigots invented a white supremacist Jesus. As Indiana peddles its

[kath]

As Indiana peddles its "religious freedom" garbage, it's time to call the religious right's trash what it really is"

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/the_rights_made_up_god_how_bigots_invented_a_white_supremacist_jesus/

This was posted the other day in Good Reads, but didn't get much attention. Worth the read.
This woman gets it, as to how right-wing haters have co-opted Christianity.

[misterhighwasted]

1. The Actual Jesus Turned No One Away.

KKKristianity is a Sacrilege to the true works of Jesus Christ.

[justgamma]

7. Wait a minute.

Do you mean that Jesus Christ (the one that Christians were named after) did not ask hungry people who they slept with before He fed the multitudes with the loaves and fish?

[misterhighwasted]

8. Yup, that Jesus. And he didn't ask what kind of birth control women were using or

if they were immigrants or had a skin color different than his.
I heard he served everyone.

[Takket]

9. Didn't ask them to pee in a cup either.

[hifiguy]

2. K and R

See also: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026456160#post12

[arely staircase]

3. recommended by this liberal Christian in the deep red south nt

[mnhtnbb]

4. She does not hold back. Good for her.

[el_bryanto]

5. Someone will be along to comment on the No True Scotsman fallacy shortly.

I found the article well worth reading myself.

Bryant

[project_bluebook]

6. Rightwing nutjobs in this country ruined religion for me

can't stand being around it now, its like a poisoned well.

[misterhighwasted]

10. Ruined it for me also. Maybe for a lot of people.

Their not even Christians.
They are the old KKK in new clothes for the 21st century

[project_bluebook]

11. Your so very right

The party of evil have hijacked everything good, from history to religion, and turned it into their own Satanic brew.

[phantom power]

12. That's the problem with religion, you can make up any fucking thing you want to

And then claim your god demands it. Who's going to prove otherwise? The authors of the Constitution understood this perfectly well, from experience.

[malaise]

13. K & R n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

14. The true "wolves in sheep's clothing.

They used to warn so much about the anti-Christ. They might want to take a hard look in the mirror.