From the essay:
This isn’t an oversight, it’s a necessity. There’s a simple reason for the omission: they can’t gaslight us with the words of Jesus. You see, over the past few decades, these people have become experts at slapping a shiny veneer of religion onto the most abominable of ideas and the most sociopathic of behaviors.
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They can’t make him say what they want him to say or get him to consent to their brutal wills—so they’ve simply erased him.
The Sermon on the Mount, his central treatise, is antithetical to the Republican ethos.
Republicans’ Jesus-less Christianity





