Republicans’ Jesus-less Christianity

Republicans realize that if they were to even allude to Jesus, that his life and teachings would swiftly become the loudest and most powerful public rebuke of their vile movement.

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Have you ever noticed that nearly all Republican politicians claim to be Christians — but they never mention Jesus or his teachings? I have.

Pay attention the next time you see a Conservative member of Congress parading their supposed faith in a press conference, stump speech, or Fox News fluff piece. (It shouldn’t take long.) You’ll notice they use words like “God” throughout and they reference “The Bible” a whole lot and even mention “faith.” but they completely exclude the very namesake of their declared religious tradition.

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. They know they can weaponize the rather generic idea of “God”, manufacturing a deity in their own bloodthirsty, morally-inverted, predatory image: a vengeful…