Standing up for something you believe in and inciting others to do the same, does not make you a politician. It makes you a leader. Caring about the poor does not make you a liberal. It makes you a compassionate person. And, being spiritually in tune with nature/God does not make you an environmentalist. It makes you… spiritually in tune with nature/God.

Jesus was, we hope/think, a unbelievably compassionate, spiritual leader who, more than anything else, taught about love.

And, for the record, I don’t think Jesus would drive a car at all, but that has nothing to do with being green and everything to do with being poor and humble. I think his preferences about owning things are pretty clear in the Bible. Now, that’s not to say he wouldn’t call shotty every now and again.

I’ve always thought that the case in Christianity.

For many UU’s too really, when you consider the Universalits side of our tradition felt Universal Salvation important enought to call themselves Universalists

Falwell Jr’s father seemed to spend a lot of time in the arena of applying the Scripture (good bad or indifferent) to the grander spectrum of life.

The only thing that matters in our understanding of Jesus is what He told us of Himself in His Word, the Bible. And the Bible must be our only standard in our endeavors to understand Jesus, the Son of the Living God, and His purpose for our lives.

In this regard, it is important to note that Jesus did not come to earth to teach us what car to drive or which candidate to vote for or to compel us not to cross picket lines.

Instead, Jesus came for one simple reason, as He stated in Luke 19:10: “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

That statement applies to all of us, for we are all lost without Jesus Christ in our lives.

Jesus did certainly outline plans for the disciples (and hence the present church) to care for widows, the affirmed and the disadvantaged. But this was not His principal message.

I fear that many people these days are using modern social guidelines such as “inclusiveness” or “multi-culturalism” or “globalism” to define Jesus.

In effect, these individuals are attempting to socialize the Gospel, humanizing Jesus to fit their needs.

These are superficial perceptions of Jesus and have virtually nothing to do with the Bible narrative of His life and design.

For Christians, it’s Jesus’s opinions of them that matter.

It is his worldview that is sadly lacking Biblical support.

Seems to me most if not all Christians have read the bible that way.

And, I’m assuming he means people’s opinions about Jesus, and not Jesus’s opinions.

I doubt Falwell Jr has the upper hand on Biblical exegesis here. It is his worldview that is sadly lacking Biblical support.