Who Will Protect Us From The Love Of Jesus?
Christian Nationalists say that they want to replace American democracy with a Christian government that will provide all Americans with “the love of Jesus”.
What does the love of Jesus look like in practice, though?
By the end of the New Testament, the love of Jesus becomes twisted into an obsession with absolute control. Jesus declares that anyone who disobeys him and refuses to worship him as a god king will be tortured and killed. Even after death, Jesus says, he will find new ways to torture their eternal souls, throwing people into a lake of unending fire where they will be burned, but never consumed, in pain forever.
The love of Jesus is fury, jealousy, and sadism. The love of Jesus is relentless abuse. The love of Jesus is tyranny.
Who will protect us from the love of Jesus?
Separation of church and state will protect us. Christian Nationalist fascists have destroyed separation of church and state.
We need to get the fascists out of power, and rebuild the wall of separation between church and state as soon as we can, before we are all destroyed by the love of Jesus.
The love of Jesus is the kind of love that’s always making you wonder if you’re good enough. Are you worthy enough that Jesus Christ will decide not to throw you into the lake of fire?
Probably not.
Christianity teaches that people are scum, that we are all born unworthy. We’re not unworthy because of anything we’ve done, but just because we’re human beings. We deserve to be tortured forever - that’s what Christianity has to say about people.
The love of Jesus is conditional love. Jesus will agree to spare you from eternal pain, but only if you do everything that he tells you to do.
Of course, Jesus isn’t around to tell you what to do. The love of Jesus is remote. Jesus is an absent lover.
So, in practice, priests and preachers and Christian politicians are the ones who get to tell us what to do. Our job, if we want to escape the lake of fire, is to do whatever Christian leaders tell us to do, without question.
That’s not love.
That’s sadistic manipulation.