Jesus taught care of the poor and oppressed, ending war, and broad tolerance for the beliefs and lifestyles of others. He didn't say a word about abortion or gay marriage. Michael Brown is just trying the old trick of driving a wedge between Jesus' real teachings and black voters for political gain. Jesus overturned the tables of the social conservatives of his day and reserved some of his harshest language for them.

Pure fantasy. Where does Jesus say Yahweh, the angry and Jealous God of the Old Covenant, who killed thousands at a whim is the Father Jesus prayed to, the Father of mercy, forgiveness and love? You should stop quoting yourself as the scriptural truth.

But don't you find it interesting that most Christians have forgotten what Jesus actually taught as opposed to what the church hundreds of years later taught about him?

The Bible may be inerrant, or perhaps not. It is a matter of belief, and it doesn't matter. The teaching is still flawed. When John Hagee and many evangelicals take a 3600+ year old passage on Israel and apply it today as inerrant, he is making an interpretation that is prone to error. He is putting himself above God. The same passage if true through all time should have applied to the Roman Empire after it destroyed Israel. But after it destroyed Israel the Roman Empire enjoyed its best hundred years, Pax Romana. So the passage may have been true and without error, whatever that means, but it wasn't true for the Romans when the they destroyed Israel and the Temple.

The "inerrant word" is a flawed teaching. Even if the Bible is inerrant, context matters. The laws about when I could have sex with my slave girl are quite irrelevant today. Even if the Bible is inerrant, interpretations aren't, and every reading of the Bible is an interpretation. Every time a preacher chooses one passage over another it is an interpretation. Too many preachers use inerrant word to imply their preaching is inerrant, which is the grave sin of idolatry, putting themselves over God.

wmou, do you really think Jesus was a right wing evangelical? Scripture says Jesus was a revolutionary who overthrew the tables of the social conservatives. He inspired Dr Martin Luther King to turn against the war in Vietnam. He inspired Gandhi and Desmond Tutu as well as countless Liberation theologists including Oscar Romero who was killed by the same death-squad families who financed Romney's Bain Capital. (Talk about moral compass) One of Jesus' 12 was a Zealot, a freedom fighter in modern terms.

Do you really think so? Jesus was a revolutionary who overthrew the tables of the social conservatives. He inspired Dr Martin Luther King to turn against the war in Vietnam. He inspired Gandhi and Desmond Tutu as well as Liberation theologists including Oscar Romero who was killed by the same death-squad families who financed Bain Capital. One of Jesus' 12 was a Zealot, a freedom fighter in modern terms.

Jesus brought a changing of the gods. Yahweh isn't mentioned once in the Gospels. Jesus was an incarnation of the Holy Spirit, not Yahweh. Jesus prayed to the Father, not Yahweh. Of course there is only one god, but with Jesus our conception of him changed from an eye for an eye to love. Read the Gospels. It's all there.

Are you kidding? Where did Jesus say that? Jesus would have been delighted to support universal medical care. The first Christian communities covered everyone's basic needs including health care, setting the standard for universal health care, which of course didn't exist even as an idea before Jesus. You are also confusing literal truth with symbolic truth or you would never degrade the immaculate conception in such a way.

Jesus' teachings are far to the left of any major politician in office today. He told us to take care of the poor and oppressed including the sick and immigrants. He told us to end war, and he told us to be tolerant of the views and lifestyles of others. Jesus didn't say a word about abortion of homosexuality. It is the fundamentalist, social conservatives like Prager that are turning well intended spiritual seekers away from religion. Who wants to be like that? Jesus contradicted the social conservatives of his day, reserving some of his sharpest words or them.

Fundamentalism is the real evil whether Islamis, Christian or Jewish it's only a matter of degree. The "I have the only right way" believers are not real Christians. Historically, they are as violent as Islam fundamentalists, pushing the invasion of Iraq for example, killing many more people than Muslims in recent history.