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A group of pastors, musicians and poets want to convince fellow believers that being Christian doesnt mean voting Republican
Doug Pagitt and his band of Jesus freaks pull their big orange bus into a North Dallas church and step out into the gloom. Its been raining on them since Pennsylvania, and today is no different. Was God telling them something? Pagitt, a pastor from Minneapolis, lets out a sigh. I wont take this as a sign, he says.
For two weeks this group of musicians, poets and pastors from both sides of the political divide has been driving across the country proclaiming the good news or, to most Americans these days, what is simply news news: that to be Christian, you dont have to vote Republican.
That you can love gay people and the flag at the same time, support Black Lives Matter along with the troops, and that God is perfectly fine with that. Most of all, the group wants liberal and conservative Christians to join forces and reclaim the gospel from the likes of Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr, who told Fox News that evangelicals had found their dream president in Donald Trump. Come 6 November, theyre asking people of faith to set aside cultural differences and vote for the common good, and, by doing so, flip Congress.
The Vote Common Good tour the name is emblazoned across the tour bus and RV that follows behind is a rolling revival-cum-hootenanny performed in churches, city parks, pubs and parking lots, replete with klieg lights, backdrop banners and a portable stage pulled from a pickup truck. A list of whos who in progressive Christianity participate or pop in: activist Shane Claiborne, writer and theologian Diana Butler Bass, hip-hop artist Genesis Be.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/31/trump-democrats-evangelicals-pro-jesus-republicans
vi5
(13,305 posts)..the people they are trying to reach are not "christians" or "believers". Attempting to actually appeal to a morality that just does not exist within these people is a waste of time, effort, and resources.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)politician, right? I say if they can reach one person in a family that person might keep alive a conversation about humanity which could penetrate their rigid thinking. And that is what this is about, imo, trying to get them to focus on people are people.