Marxist and Harvard law professor, Mark Tushnet, believes the cultural wars have been won and that the Left must treat conservative Christians as hostiles, much in the manner the allies treated Japan and Germany after World War II, granting “no quarter of clemency”.
In his deluded mind, he confidently believes that “they lost, we won”, and that the left must pursue this advantage, taking the offense to “take up ‘aggressively liberal positions’ because they will no long meet resistance”.
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Tushnet, a leftover leftist elite from the sixties, is urging more radical pursuits, “insisting that now is the time to overturn “key cases” that have hindered the liberal cause”.
He has drawn the line in the sand and is specifically targeting Christians, read about it on the next page.
You know, that is the kind of thing that proves the professor right!
“The reason the command not to fear was so prevalent in Scripture was because (as now) there was so much for people to be afraid of. We’d be delusional to look around at the world we’re living in and not be initially afraid. With the mutli-headed horrors running non-stop through our news feeds, it’s so easy to become spiritually disoriented, to lose sight of anything sure and steady. When that happens in your soul; when faith leaks out, fear seeps in–and you start sinking.
And once that fear becomes the dominant force in your religion, you end up becoming more and more terrified, more desperate, more jittery, more reactionary in your responses.
You grow more hostile to those you perceive as outsiders, more contemptible of those who are different, more drawn to protection and violence and aggression.
In other words: You become less and less like Jesus.
What you’re seeing right now in the wake of the terrorist attacks from so many professed Christians is not Jesus, or the loving, radically hospitable, interdependent community which sprang from his life and ministry.
It may have commandeered his name and appropriated some select quotes and have a similar veneer, but it is not Christianity.
It’s simply Americhristianity.
It is a Frankensteined faith made as much of rabid nationalism, political posturing, and fearful self-preservation, as it is the foot-washing, enemy forgiving, humble hearted, suffering Christ of the Gospels. It’s a flailing, angry, violent monster that once began as a noble experiment in Life.
Most American Christians have lived so long in Americhristianity that they simply accept that this is how their faith is supposed to look and sound and react. They live in an echo chamber of agreement in churches and talk shows and podcasts. That’s why when Christian politicians rushed to close their doors and borders to Syrian refugees, as they ramped up the inflammatory generalizations about Muslims, and as they called for immediate airstrikes, so many stood and applauded and amen-d, because they now have fear as their default setting and it feels natural.
Never mind that the Gospel is overflowing with the words and examples of Jesus on how to love lavishly, how to pour oneself out for another, how to bless even those who curse you. We’ve almost come to laugh that stuff off as meaningless; as if Jesus either didn’t really mean what he said or that what he said is no longer useful to us.
That Jesus; (the one from the Gospels) really doesn’t fit into Americhristianity. He’s too soft, too tolerant, too vulnerable. He’s not brash enough, his foreign policy not tough enough. In fact, the faith that so many in the West now call Christianity retains only the smallest sliver of Christ; conveniently just enough to get people saved or send them to Hell.
Outside of that, the rest is purely Stars and Stripes and American Dreams, all wrapped around a cross. We’re perfectly content to demand revenge when we get hurt, to live fat and happy surrounded by poverty, and to pick fights whenever we’re confronted—confident that Jesus approves of all of it.
We’re not sinister in this, just oblivious. Americhristainity only allows us to see God in our own materialistic, xenophobic, retaliatory image.
But Jesus was born as a homeless traveler whose family struggled to find welcome.
He lived and ministered in poverty at the mercy of others’ generosity.
He had a table of hospitality that offered no exceptions.
He held more power than anyone on the planet, yet never used that power in force in the face of oppression or violence, even upon his own body.
He was a blessed peacemaker.
This Jesus told of a heroic, Jew-despised Samaritan who modeled sacrificial mercy for the religious onlookers and for you and me. We’re still learning.
And time and time again, Jesus commanded his followers to choose faith over fear. It’s time we do so.
The heart of Christianity is inclusion and welcome and invitation. It is trust and contentment and hope that cannot be overtaken. It is serving and yielding and sacrificing.
It is not this scared narcissism that vilifies the other and sanctions bigotry and demands blood.
I love Christianity, just not this Americhristianity.
I don’t think this is helping anyone.
Until we who seek to follow Jesus choose to emulate the actual life of Christ and not the characteristics of our country, we’ll always be living a counterfeit religion—and we’ll always be afraid.
I’m not afraid.”
Freeing Christians from Americhristianity
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/11/17/freeing-christians-from-americhristianity/
Btw,
According to the standard Jewish Encylopaedia, 96% of all Jews known to the world are the descendants of the Khazarian tribes of Russia, Eastern Europe and Western Mongolia.
“Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an Ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.”
(1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3)
“Ashkenazim, Ashkenazim are the Jews whose ancestors lived in German lands…it was among Ashkenazi Jews that the idea of political Zionism emerged, leading ultimately to the establishment of the state of Israel.”
Encyclopedia Americana (1985)
“1. Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth: and unto them were born sons after the flood.
2. The sons of Japheth; Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras…
3. And the sons of Gomer; ASHKENAZI, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
(Gen 10: 1 – 3)
Notice that modern Israelis are descendants of JAPHETH not Shem and are, therefore, NOT descendants of Biblical Israelites but are f**e Jews, the “synagogue of Satan.”
9. “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, WHICH SAY THEY ARE JEWS, AND ARE NOT, BUT DO LIE; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”
(Rev 3: 9)
Ashkenazi Jews are NOT the Descendants of Biblical Israelites!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZn8rq9_xD0
Palestinians ARE the descendants of Biblical Israelites and ARE descendants of Abraham!
Would that be ‘The National SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party’, commonly referred to in English as the$#%&!@*Party, was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practiced Nazism? Unbelievable / horrific comparison. This doesn’t even correlate at all with the US Republican Party. That would be the party of Lincoln and Reagan. You sir, are an anarchist!
Good to know I’m on my way
Btw,
Talmudic quotes, aka what Netanyahu and his govt REALLY believes about you, America and the world!
“The decisions of the Talmud are words of the living God. Jehovah himself asks the opinions of earthly rabbis when there are difficult affairs in heaven.
Rabbi Menachen, Comments for the Fifth Book
Jehovah himself in heaven studies the Talmud, standing: he has such respect for that book.
Tractate Mechilla/Me’ilah
On the house of the Goy [Goy means unclean, and is the disparaging term for a non-Jew] one looks as on the fold of cattle. Tosefta, Tractate Erubin VIII
When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it.
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156
If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.
Choschen Hamm 388, 15
That the Jewish nation is the only nation selected by God, while all the remaining ones are contemptible and hateful.
That all property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general.
A Jew may rob a Goy, he may cheat him over a bill, which should not be perceived by him, otherwise the name of God would become dishonoured.
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat, 348
When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves.
Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D
[And YOU will be their slave or dead!]
Kill the Goyim by any means possible.
Choshen Ha’mishpat 425:50
Everyone who sheds the blood of the impious [non-Jews] is as acceptable to God as he who offers a sacrifice to God.
Yalkut 245c
Extermination of the Christians is a necessary sacrifice.
Zohar, Shemoth
Tob shebbe goyyim harog – Even the best of the Goyim (Gentiles) should be killed.
Soferim 15, Rule 10
Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.
Midrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L
HE should be treated like a rat in a trap and placed in the trash..
Harvard has ZERO class because of this$#%&!@*hat..
Ever notice the similarity in sound of the words ‘lawyer’ and ‘liar’.
Who does he think he is to try to incite violence against Christians??!!
Too bad he didn’t make the cut