Talk about sacreligion.
The speaker line-up at a recent DNC event included “Reverend” William Barber, who took the opportunity to twist the message of the Bible into his – and modern Democrat’s – own agenda: promoting socialism.
First, Rev. Barber implied that Jesus Christ was a socialist, preaching to the crowd of Democrats that, “the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care to everyone, and he never charged a leper a co-pay.”
He also called the Constitution a “socialist document because it calls us to promote the general welfare and to establish justice.”
Watch Rev. Barber’s excuse for a sermon here from Ryan Saavedra on Twitter:
Patriots like Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas were not going to let this slide.
Here's Crenshaw's awesome response to Rev. Barber:
Other patriots who weren't going to let Rev. Barber dillute the Bible or our nation's Constitution also stepped up to condemn his words.
Check out these Twitter replies:
Some Twitter users turned the Bible back around on the Reverend, quoting specific verses from it that sure don't seem to approve of socialism to me!
LaCorte News gave a great summary of the rebuke the Reverend got after preaching that the Bible and Constitution are socialist:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Saturday rebuked Pastor Rev. William Barber's remarks, in which he suggested that the Bible and the US Constitution support socialism.
Rev. William's speech: "When we embrace moral language, we must ask does our policy care for the least of these? Does it lift up those who are most marginalized and dejected in our society? Does it establish justice? That is the moral question," said Rev. William Barber at a DNC meeting.
"If someone calls it socialism, then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care to everyone, and he never charged a leper a co-pay."
Townhall also commented:
Progressive Pastor Rev. William Barber challenged Republicans on whether or not socialism is moral. He even invited the debate, saying Jesus would support the economic system. Luckily, we have Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw to explain to the preacher just how wrong he is.
"When we embrace moral language, we must ask does our policy care for the least of these? Does it lift up those who are most marginalized and dejected in our society? Does it establish justice? That is the moral question," Rev. William Barber said to applause.
"If someone calls it socialism, then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care to everyone, and he never charged a leper a co-pay," he added.
"The Bible says a nation will be judged by how it treats the poor and the sick and women and the immigrants," Barber continued. "The Bible says that God makes it rain on the just and unjust alike. If you want to call caring for folks socialism, then the Constitution is a socialist document because it calls us to promote the general welfare and to establish justice."
This is something leftists love to do. They're all for separation of church and state, unless they can twist Christian scripture to support their agenda. Rep. Crenshaw, very simply actually, pointed out the fundamental flaw in Rev. Barber's argument.
"Deliberate misreading of Biblical principles by DNC to promote socialism," the freshman congressman tweeted. "The Bible teaches charity with one’s own time and money. Socialism teaches charity with other people’s time and money. So....not the same thing."
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