'Their values are cash and not Christ': Rev. Barber rains holy hell on right-wing Values Voters Summ

[workinclasszero]

'Their values are cash and not Christ': Rev. Barber rains holy hell on right-wing Values Voters Summit
Bob Brigham 14 OCT 2017 AT 12:26 ET

“Actually, from Jeremiah 22 to Jesus and Matthew 25, Christian values for nations and political leaders has to do with love and justice, equality, stopping exploitation of the vulnerable, caring for the poor, caring for children, welcoming immigrants, helping the sick and loving all,” Rev. Barber preached.

“And by these standards, the so-called Values Summit is not about Judeo-Christian values, it’s not about Christianity, but the values of a heretical rhetorical extremism funded by a whole lot of money, perpetrating a fraud on the American people.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/their-values-are-cash-and-not-christ-rev-barber-rains-holy-hell-on-right-wing-values-voters-summit/

[Nitram]

1. Yup, he got that right.

[dalton99a]

2. But Jesus told them to kill poor people in their own country

for entertainment and profit

[meow2u3]

3. The so-called "values voters" twist the gospel into a pretzel

It can be summed up in two quotes:

"You cannot serve God and mammon" - Christ

"You can serve the Almighty Dollar in the name of the Almighty" - RW fundie prosperity gospel heretics.

[catbyte]

4. "Supply Side Jesus" all the way.

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Al Franken nailed it years ago.

[workinclasszero]

21. Excellent!

The religious reich is still choosing a false Christ and his prophet Trump the pussy grabber con man!

[Willie Pep]

25. That cartoon never gets old. nt.

[sandensea]

5. Cash - and petty hatred.

They say sex sells; but hatred comes a close second.

[njhoneybadger]

6. Their own book condemns them

Matthew 6:24
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You can't serve God and mammon.”




They really do hate the Jesus of the New Testament

[workinclasszero]

22. Yes

The 'value voters' literally kill the poor and sick and rob them blind in the process.

[Stargazer99]

7. Finally some one that has more guts than the churches that sit quietly by and do nothing

[kysrsoze]

8. There needs to be MUCH more of this. The "Christian" right are some of the worst people on earth.

[cilla4progress]

9. Rev. Barber is following

In MLK''s footsteps.

[hamsterjill]

18. My opinion, as well.

I worry about his safety. But I believe he is performing a great service to our country. We need to hear from real Christians like Bishop Barber, and not simply always hear from the idiots who take the tenets of Christianity and pervert those tenets to their own interests.

[gratuitous]

10. Puzzling

Why is it that the only black people I see on the electric teevee machine are folks like Ben Carson and Michael Steele? Why doesn't William Barber have some favored status? I know that the popular media like to trot out the Sheriff Clarke folks to exhibit the phenomenon of a self-hating black man who barks for the scraps from the white man's table, but Rev. Barber has a contrarian message, too: These Values Voters are all about horrible values that don't line up with the Bible they claim to revere.

Wouldn't that lead to a lively discussion, and attract viewers?

[iluvtennis]

13. He speaks the truth about Christianity is all about, rightwing evangelicals don't want to hear the

truth.

[iluvtennis]

11. Dr Barber spoke the truth. Love all of the political activism he does in North Carolina.

[mountain grammy]

12. Reverend Barber is magnificent.

[workinclasszero]

23. I love him!

God bless Reverend Barber!

[keithbvadu2]

14. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

They support Trump who says he is so perfect that he does not need Christ or his forgiveness.

Like today's evangelical/religious right supporters, Trump is a Political Christian, not a Christian of faith.

Evangelicals/religious right are easily able to spin their beliefs for political expediency.

The Donald who does not have to ask Jesus for forgiveness.

Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn

[kimbutgar]

15. They should just drop the pretense and name it the white peoples values voters summit

Drop the faux religious pretense. There is no “Christ” in these type of Christians.

[B Stieg]

16. 1 Timothy 6:10 says it all for Trump, Ryan and their ilk.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

[Vogon_Glory]

17. Reverend Barber is right on target

Those of us who believe have often said the same thing about these hypocrites for years.

Speaking the truth about these "values voters" hypocrites over and over again doesn't make it a lie.

[Joe Chi Minh]

19. Yes. Throughout almost the entire Bible, but particularly, in the Psalms and the Prophets,

the rich man is cast as personifying wickedness, violence, fraud, oppression, etc, while the poor man is cast, not as the feckless idle, no-good bum, but as the virtuous man, the True Israel. The Magnificat is a good example. Of course, there are many good rich people, but relatively less than among the poorer folk, and the symbolism is by no means inappropriate, being, as it is, a total inversion of the world's go-getting, 'aims of industry' values.

[Initech]

20. It must suck to be as consumed with hatred as the Values Voters are.

And somehow they think they're better than us.

[Martin Eden]

24. Their use of the word VALUES

Is downright Orwellian.