Just Peachy362

Written in a very readable style, the author is a good writer. But when I got to the part that he and his father felt Christianity is about "liberation" I stopped right there. Jesus Christ was betrayed to the Jewish authorities by one of his disciples, a zealot who wanted the Jews to be liberated from the Romans. Judas Iscariot felt that Jesus, as the Messiah, was not doing the job of liberating Israel. But liberating was not what Jesus was all about, even unto death. Jesus was all about love, love God and love thy neighbor, love even the gentiles. Even the Romans who were oppressing the Jews. Love your enemies. Forgive them. Forgiveness was essential. As Jesus hung from the cross, after being flogged and nailed, he said, "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." Jesus was not about liberation at all. Jesus Christ was about love and forgiveness. And at that point I had no interest in hearing whatever else the author had to say, because he, like Judas Iscariot, had used Jesus Christ to support his political agenda. While he might have valid points, so did Judas Iscariot.