Jesus is NOT Politically Correct

Jesus is NOT Politically Correct.  Jesus said he was God, the Son of God, the Only way to the Father and in so doing he said that all other religions are false.  This did not make Him popular with some people.  In fact, it made them so mad, they killed Him.  He rose from the dead, proving that everything He said was true.  His followers ran into the same trouble Jesus did, people tortured and killed them too, because they claimed that Jesus is God, the Son of God, the Only way to the Father and in so doing they said that all other religions are false.  History, and current world realities, reveal that followers of Jesus suffer evil from the hands of those who don’t like it when Jesus is made known as God, the Son of God, the Only way to the Father and that all other religions are false.

Jesus is the most counter-cultural person who ever lived.  He raised the position and dignity of women from them being treated as property to the equal status they had with men when both were created in the image of God.  Jesus elevated the status of children too.  Jesus’ disciples shooed away children attracted to the smiling, laughing, and kind Jesus.  Previously taught by their culture, Jesus’ disciples didn’t want Jesus bothered by “insignificant time-wasters.”  Jesus was indignant and ordered his disciples to “Let the little children come to Me.”  And he put his hands on the children and blessed them.  He used a child as an example for his disciples to emulate saying, “Unless you become like this child, you will by no means enter the kingdom of God.”  Jesus was not a “respecter of persons” meaning he didn’t treat people differently because of their having, or lack of having, status, position, wealth, health, popularity, etc.  Jesus valued the poor, sick, lame, deaf, blind, and sinners; what the past and then-current society thought of as “worthless.”

The values most prized by those who would “censor” me originated with Jesus.  The dignity and worth of the individual and their rights originated with Jesus.  And free speech, something prized and fought for by this country is necessary and beneficial to all.  If you want to criticize me or Jesus go ahead.  Your right to free speech is more important than if you “offend” me.  If someone says something I don’t like I can discuss it with them, exchange ideas, we can learn from each other, and maybe we can both learn that we were both wrong.

But “censorship” is practiced by the insecure.

P.S.  This piece was written after someone complained my “Google Blogger”  post on their sharing site was “offensive.”  I had written that Jesus loves Muslims and so do I.  Google’s sharing site deleted the headline and the ability to get to my post.  I tried to contact Google many times and discuss this with them but they never answered back.  Censorship and Fake News are this generation’s media controllers’ idea of “preferred truth.”