Yea what drug are they taking

Amidst the countless contradictions in the Bible, one consistent message is that rich people who do not give generously to the poor are bad. Rich people are always portrayed in a negative light in Bible stories.

The bible is full of contradictions. That is one reasons I left the bs on religion/god.

The dictionary defines a liberal as one who is tolerant. But the word is changing as all living language is fluid. The conservatives rage against my definition tho they are hardly a tolerant bunch. They are the ones who wish to prevent progress. Opposing racial integration, voting rights, supported the Vietnam War, were anti cannabis,agaist women & gay advancements inequality, they are pro corporation, & anti union. The ultra left is not liberal as they don't tolerate any discourse from the right, especially on campus. So good luck in your search for liberalism.

To think that it is real and had thoughts is just wrong.

He didn't exist.

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar"--Jesus the Taxman

"You think I come to bring peace on Earth? I come not to bring peace on Earth but a sword"--Jesus

There are more than enough contradictory things coming out of Jesus moth in the text for you to twist Dogma to form left or right, and it has been done in History.
Jesus was both Pro and Anti slavery during the civil war.

If he did exist, l always thought of him as the first hippie.

who knows truth has been distorted.

Well, let's see, does the idea that he had apparently nothing against slavery have any importance? The character as presented in the bible never once explicitly renounced any of the Hebrew scriptures -- "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, not one jot nor one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
~Matthew 5:18

I've heard all the interpretations attempting to do away with this, but they don't wash. Sorry, folks, but the dead Jew on the stick was in no way the fulfillment of all. His anger with the money changers was not because he was against taxes or money changers, but because they were not acting in accordance with the ancient Hebrew law regarding money lenders and they were operating inside the temple.

No, I'm afraid the Jesus character was a confusing mix of the two ideas. Strong elements of liberal mixed in with an overwhelming amount of conservative, barbaric early law. Too confusing for me.

There is no complete concept of Jesus, except what he says and does, just FYI before you think that he was a subscriber to a political ideology that came into fruition many years after his supposed lifespan. At best, we know that he was a philosophical, scholarly type with vigor, and a good degree of fire.

Please note that in the US, Liberalism is another word for Democratic Socialism, one of the reasons why he is not a radical liberal.

Now, was he radical? Oh yes, everyone has read the canon about his rebuke of the Rebbe and the King at the time according to the mythos, but his concerns were mostly not political, and were about developing his own rabbinic belief system. which a lot of Jewish clerics do. In Jewish tradition, Rabbis and such like to add to canon and they form their own belief systems....so Jesus was more likely a Hasidic Jew than a Radical Liberal in his ideological interests.

I tell people "Jesus fed the poor and healed the sick regardless of how much they 'earned it' or deserved it." And they get so mad "NUH UH JESUS DID NOT"

And that's when I give up because obviously they never read the bible and are fake christian hypocrites which are the worst kinds of christians.

Thinking wrong is one of their requirements.