Mr. Jesus Sleeves

Mr. TenNepal writes:

Now for all the flack Bush gets for being a Christian, I've never once seen him call down the good name of Jesus to back up any of his public policy. You see, Bush doesn't wear his religion on his sleeve. But the fact is that atheists won't reject Hill as president because they know she doesn't actually believe her own crap.

Dougy T may be correct that Hillary Clinton is using the Jesus card. But he is incorrect that George Bush has not consistently done the same.

While stumping for the presidency, George Bush Jr. openly embroidered Jesus on his sleeve saying that Jesus was his hero. When that did not suffice, he , in back room negotiations with powerful Fundagelicals, showed them his Jesus/AA tattoo.

It's all show on both sides.

But what happens when the real Jesus shows up (not the one depicted above that they want you to see). From the book of Matthew:

"But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.

Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ForI was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.'

Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?

'And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?

'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'

The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'

Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.'

Then they themselves also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?'

Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'

"These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

So how does that shake out for you?

I admit that the idea of eternal punishment is unsavory to me...but I will not mute Jesus' words.

Nope.

These Hyper-Nationalists place personal politics, war, fear, and their own social agendas above any Gospel considerations.

They don't want Jesus on their sleeve because it's a little too close to their hearts and they might get infected.