Some people say government leaders should follow the teachings of Jesus.

Have they actually read all the teachings of Jesus? Do they know that Jesus taught his followers to hate their own children?

Transcript:

Welcome to Stop Christian Nationalism.

I want to address something that was said by a member of Congress just yesterday, representative Andy Ogles, who comes from Tennessee, a Republican, said,

“Muslims don't belong in America. Pluralism. Is a lie”

Pluralism is a lie.

The idea that we can have different kind of people.

The idea that we can have people who actually choose to have a religion that they want to have or choose not to have any religion at all because they don't like religion.

A member of Congress says that that is a lie that we cannot have that in America, and therefore, Muslims don't belong because America, he says, is only for Christians.

He's saying this as a member of the U.S. Federal government. He's saying this 2 months before Donald Trump is scheduling a national Christian prayer rally, no other members of any other religion other than Christians are invited to organize or participate in this.

At this prayer rally, Donald Trump is going to declare that the United States is under God, not the Constitution, not the law, but that we are under Christianity now, that America is a theocracy.

This is blatant Christian Nationalism.

Christian nationalism is the idea that the United States is an inherently Christian nation, and any other principles that do not fit with that idea have to be thrown out, things like the Constitution, including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press.

Christian nationalists will tell you that we should be a Christian nation because Christianity is a moral religion.

I want to remind you of this, because you're going to hear a lot of people say, on the left, progressives, they'll say, well, you know, those Christian nationalists, they just don't follow the teachings of Jesus.

And if they followed the teachings of Jesus, there wouldn't be a problem in having Christianity, inform our government and all of that because Christianity is just swell.

I wonder if those people have actually read the Bible, not just their favorite parts, not just the sermon on the Mount.

I wonder if they have read the Gospel of Luke, chapter 14, verse 26.

I'm going to do that for you right now. Here it is. This is Jesus talking here, okay?

“If any man comes to me and does not hate his father and hate his mother and hate his wife and hate his children and hate his brothers and sisters and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.”

You know, Christians claim to be all about family values, I cannot for the life of me figure out how that is family values.

It's Jesus saying that you have to hate your own children.

Okay, sometimes people hate family members, but I don't know anybody who thinks that that's a good thing, that that makes people better.

Why would Jesus want people to hate their own children, to hate their wives, to hate their parents, their brothers and sisters?

Why would Jesus want people to hate so much, so many people?

In the context of the gospel of Luke chapter 14, it's pretty clear.

Jesus wants all the love to go to him. This is the position of a narcissist and a cult leader who wants to have total control. Cult leaders do this all the time. They separate people from their family members, because family members, that love, that's competition.

You know where they learned that practice from, they learned it from Jesus.

So when I see a Republican member of Congress, saying that we can't have pluralism, we can't have any competition, we can't have any difference, we all have to be Christians, and therefore Muslims don't belong here - nobody but Christians - when I see that, I don't see somebody who doesn't know the teachings of Jesus, I see somebody who knows the ugly, abusive, vile teachings of Jesus, because, you know, a lot of the time, that's what Jesus did.

He shouted at people. He insulted them. He went into the temple and beat people simply because they didn't practice religion in the way that he thought they should.

And in the book of Revelation, which the Bible says is, “the testimony of Jesus” (It doesn't get more Jesus than that) Jesus describes his plans in detail for mass, murder, genocide, and torture where people are tortured at length for months on end, and they are not allowed to die because Jesus wants them to suffer.

What we have happening in the United States right now with people implementing cruel policies in our federal government in the name of Christianity.

I'm sorry, because I know that this is not what a lot of people want to hear, but boy, it matches a lot of the teachings of Jesus, and we need to come to grips with that.

The best way to come to grips with that is to have separation of church and state.

If somebody wants to have a religion where they believe that they should hate their own children, well, you know, that's their business, and they should be free to do so.

I think it's not wise, but by no means should we have the U.S. Federal government forcing everybody to follow a religion that tells us that we need to hate our children in the name of Jesus. 

Some people say government leaders should follow the teachings of Jesus.

Have they actually read all the teachings of Jesus? Do they know that Jesus taught his followers to hate their own children?

Transcript:

Welcome to Stop Christian Nationalism.

I want to address something that was said by a member of Congress just yesterday, representative Andy Ogles, who comes from Tennessee, a Republican, said,

“Muslims don't belong in America. Pluralism. Is a lie”

Pluralism is a lie.

The idea that we can have different kind of people.

The idea that we can have people who actually choose to have a religion that they want to have or choose not to have any religion at all because they don't like religion.

A member of Congress says that that is a lie that we cannot have that in America, and therefore, Muslims don't belong because America, he says, is only for Christians.

He's saying this as a member of the U.S. Federal government. He's saying this 2 months before Donald Trump is scheduling a national Christian prayer rally, no other members of any other religion other than Christians are invited to organize or participate in this.

At this prayer rally, Donald Trump is going to declare that the United States is under God, not the Constitution, not the law, but that we are under Christianity now, that America is a theocracy.

This is blatant Christian Nationalism.

Christian nationalism is the idea that the United States is an inherently Christian nation, and any other principles that do not fit with that idea have to be thrown out, things like the Constitution, including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press.

Christian nationalists will tell you that we should be a Christian nation because Christianity is a moral religion.

I want to remind you of this, because you're going to hear a lot of people say, on the left, progressives, they'll say, well, you know, those Christian nationalists, they just don't follow the teachings of Jesus.

And if they followed the teachings of Jesus, there wouldn't be a problem in having Christianity, inform our government and all of that because Christianity is just swell.

I wonder if those people have actually read the Bible, not just their favorite parts, not just the sermon on the Mount.

I wonder if they have read the Gospel of Luke, chapter 14, verse 26.

I'm going to do that for you right now. Here it is. This is Jesus talking here, okay?

“If any man comes to me and does not hate his father and hate his mother and hate his wife and hate his children and hate his brothers and sisters and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.”

You know, Christians claim to be all about family values, I cannot for the life of me figure out how that is family values.

It's Jesus saying that you have to hate your own children.

Okay, sometimes people hate family members, but I don't know anybody who thinks that that's a good thing, that that makes people better.

Why would Jesus want people to hate their own children, to hate their wives, to hate their parents, their brothers and sisters?

Why would Jesus want people to hate so much, so many people?

In the context of the gospel of Luke chapter 14, it's pretty clear.

Jesus wants all the love to go to him. This is the position of a narcissist and a cult leader who wants to have total control. Cult leaders do this all the time. They separate people from their family members, because family members, that love, that's competition.

You know where they learned that practice from, they learned it from Jesus.

So when I see a Republican member of Congress, saying that we can't have pluralism, we can't have any competition, we can't have any difference, we all have to be Christians, and therefore Muslims don't belong here - nobody but Christians - when I see that, I don't see somebody who doesn't know the teachings of Jesus, I see somebody who knows the ugly, abusive, vile teachings of Jesus, because, you know, a lot of the time, that's what Jesus did.

He shouted at people. He insulted them. He went into the temple and beat people simply because they didn't practice religion in the way that he thought they should.

And in the book of Revelation, which the Bible says is, “the testimony of Jesus” (It doesn't get more Jesus than that) Jesus describes his plans in detail for mass, murder, genocide, and torture where people are tortured at length for months on end, and they are not allowed to die because Jesus wants them to suffer.

What we have happening in the United States right now with people implementing cruel policies in our federal government in the name of Christianity.

I'm sorry, because I know that this is not what a lot of people want to hear, but boy, it matches a lot of the teachings of Jesus, and we need to come to grips with that.

The best way to come to grips with that is to have separation of church and state.

If somebody wants to have a religion where they believe that they should hate their own children, well, you know, that's their business, and they should be free to do so.

I think it's not wise, but by no means should we have the U.S. Federal government forcing everybody to follow a religion that tells us that we need to hate our children in the name of Jesus.