The Beatitudes Rewritten: Accommodating Extremist Far Right Politics with the Bible

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-re-writing-of-beatitudes-based-on.html

We've apparently gotten to the point, in our culture, where we are no longer content to accept other people's rights if their perspective disagrees with our own. While Carter's criticisms and accusations, especially against union leaders, even though she was not a union member, may constitute free speech, though her approach was abrasive and rude, it is certainly well outside the boundaries of expectations of Christians who are following the gospel and giving a testimony for their faith in Christ. There's no reference in the article to whether or not Carter claims any kind of Christian faith, though the implication is that since she opposed abortion rights, she must have been one. Her approach wouldn't lead to that conclusion, but Jesus did say that we are not to judge.

These kind of people, who insist on their rights while demanding that others not have any of their own, are re-writing the Christian gospel to suit their own purposes. It's apparently not too far of a leap from supporting a presidential candidate with no morals or values to being unacceptably rude and aggressive in pursuing one's own agenda.

So we might need to do some re-writing of the Beatitudes, those verses at the beginning of Jesus' sermon on the mount, where he lays out the characteristics of the Christian gospel.

[multigraincracker]

1. Never mentions abortion or

gay sex. Not even once.
You’d never guess.
Did mention how to pray. Lock yourself in a closet and pray in silence and not in public, like on the 50 yard line before the game.

[lees1975]

2. It's all about values and virtues,

and that's the problem those who blend right wing extremism with Christianity have with the gospel of Christ. They can't measure up so they simply change the values to fit their agenda, which is violent and extreme.