A Conservative Christian. What is the hell is a Conservative Christian? I just don’t understand the concept. Sometimes I just want to write to vent because I don’t know how we can take something as pure as the perfect man and pervert it into something of pure hate. I look at what the Evangelicals stand up for and what I used to think that Jesus stood up for are two very different things. We don’t even have to talk about how Mary, Joseph and Jesus were asylum seekers in Egypt because Herod wanted to kill the Messiah. We won’t talk about how Jesus walked among the poor. We won’t talk about how Jesus opened up his words to everyone not just God’s Chosen People. I would like to know how what Conservative Christians do today and have come to think that they are doing the work of Jesus. Jesus did not sit in prayer sessions with Pontius Pilate. Jesus did not parade around with the symbols of Jerusalem or of Rome the two governmental powers. He did not walk around with the weapons of the day trying to intimidate people. Jesus didn’t walk around with pockets full on money. When he died, he died a pauper not a King. What little position that he had been gambled away by his executioners. How does any of this convert over to today’s Conservative Christian Movement?

We don’t have a security crisis at the border. We have a humanitarian crisis at the border. People coming here for a better life for themselves and their children. Franklin Graham in 2017 had stated that he was in favor of Trump’s stand on immigration because it wasn’t a biblical issue. That is an interesting thing to say by the son of the Father of the modern Evangelical movement, “not a biblical issue”. The demonization of people just trying to have a better life was not a Biblical Issue? Jesus seeking asylum in Egypt was a biblical issue and it is in the Book of Matthew so what is the difference? These are the things that really confuse me about Conservative Christians. People are dying trying to make a better life for themselves and for some reason this is not an issue for the church. I will ask how can this not be an issue for the Church? If we are all God’s so called children are not these people God’s children, also, deserving of our help? What is the Church’s responsibility to God’s children? Isn’t a person that isn’t a so called Christian still God’s children if he created everything? Is the Church supposed to be supporting God’s children or are God’s children suppose to be supporting the Church?  There is a huge difference in those two philosophies. Personally I think it is the Church that should be looking out for all of Gods so called Children not just a few that are wealthy enough to contribute to it. Do I think that the Church should be demanding that we all share our hard earned money with those less fortunate? I don’t know but I do believe that is one of the meanings of the life of Jesus. Remember according to the Bible didn’t he give everything including his life?

I wonder how guns and the Bible mix. Jesus didn’t appear to be armed to me so do people really think he would be running around with an AR 15 or an AK 47. Do you think that he would be carrying that Glock or the Smith & Wesson under his robe? I really don’t think that he would be doing any of those things yet, many in the church seem to blend the Right to Bear arms and the church like they are a match made in heaven. Violence and the church is not exactly the lessons that were taught me by Pastor Siersbeck when I was a child. He did love to sing “Onward Christians Soldiers” at the top of his lungs but I never envisioned Jesus with an Uzi. Never did I read about Jesus leading any army. His goal I always thought was to free men’s souls not free them from the oppressive Roman Government. Today church seems to be more of a tool for the oppressor than the savior of the oppressed.