#Vote #Texas 🇨🇱
#MenCan #BoysCan
@JamesTalarico: “Show me how you treat other people, and I will tell you what you believe.”
#Christian nationalists walk around with a mouth full of scripture and a heart full of hate. Don't tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people and I'll tell you what you believe.
#Jesus didn't tell us to love our
#churches.
He didn't tell us to love our doctrines and our creeds. He didn't even tell us to love our scriptures. He told us to love our neighbors. And there was no exception to that commandment. Love thy neighbor regardless of
#race, class,
#gender,
#sexualorientation, or
#immigration status.
One of my favorite theologians, Barbara Brown Taylor, once wrote, 'The only clear line I draw these days is this: When my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor. Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.'
You know what's interesting? Not once in the entire Bible does Jesus ask us to worship him. All he asks is that we follow him. Love like he loved. Love the outcast. Welcome the stranger, feed the
#hungry, heal the
#sick, free the
#oppressed. As the hymn says, 'They will know we are Christians by our love.' We have to get back to that."