‘Jesus was a socialist’: Bernie Sanders Excites Previously Unmotivated Alabama Voters.

[SoapBox]

‘Jesus was a socialist’: Bernie Sanders excites Previously Unmotivated Alabama Voters.

A rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew about 300 supporters in deeply conservative Alabama – including one woman who has never voted in 22 years of eligibility.

The event for the Vermont independent, who is running for president as a Democrat, happened Sunday at the Good People Brewing Company in Birmingham, reported AL.com.

One of the those supporters was 40-year-old Elizabeth Hewitt, of Blount County, who said she has never felt like her vote mattered because she never heard a candidate’s message that resonated with her until Sanders.

“I didn’t like either candidate,” she told the newspaper. “I didn’t care who won because I felt it didn’t matter.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/jesus-was-a-socialist-bernie-sanders-excites-previously-unmotivated-alabama-voters/



The video on there actually works...the first couple of minutes are bad sounding but eventually they get it going.

[zazen]

1. 5th Rec for a very important message!

[SusanaMontana41]

15. Let's say a poor man and his pregnant girlfriend, who was carrying someone else's child,

rode up on his motorcycle and ask for shelter from a terrible storm.

Which Sunday Christians would allow the couple refuge?

[bvar22]

2. DURec.

Bernie drew 300 people in Birmingham, Alabama???!!!!
Surly that is a sign of the Apocalypse.



Bernie won't win Alabama,
but I LOVE the fact that he is carrying the message there and drawing a crowd.
Is the dam starting to crack?

[SoapBox]

4. Well...just to clarify...he was NOT personally there.

This was a rally to organize support...they planned a handful to show up and got 300-350.

As a start...pretty danged good grassroots organized get together.

[bvar22]

6. My Bad.

300 people without a Bernie appearance is even more impressive.

[Victor_c3]

41. I have to agree

It's quite an accomplishment. I love Bernie and I wouldn't show up to a rally where he wasn't planned to be present. That's a great turnout for Alabama!

[Roy Rolling]

17. He's message is infectious

Two of my most vociferous right-wing friends posted they would vote for Bernie, but never for those "Obummer" Democrats. LOL

I told them I agree with them and will vote for Bernie, too.

[sabrina 1]

30. He was not there. This was just a meetup to plan how to campaign

for him in the state. The first one which was organized by Volunteers, and not by the campaign. So it was an amazing turnout considering he is still not very well known there. Word is getting around. He has some great volunteers working to get him elected.

[A Simple Game]

37. Bernie won't win Alabama, probably true, but neither will Hillary. n/t

[smokey nj]

8. Please stop trolling this group.

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. My apologies ... I had not noticed this was the Bernie Group ...

I will self-delete; but, I didn't know correcting statements of fact and noting observations are considered "trolling."

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. I don't troll ... I do, however, read and comment, and ...

generally do not take note of where the post originated.

But an observation ... the post that sent you into attack mode was me agreeing with Bernie ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=24106

[Autumn]

16. Just a comment. I understand accidentally posting in a group it happens to the best of us.

don't know what your deleted comment was, I didn't see it. You say you were agreeing with Bernie but them post this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251442559

You seem to accidentally post in this group a lot so I'm going to take care of that problem for you so it doesn't continue to happen by blocking you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/128024147#post10

[Bohunk68]

18. My good sir, I have noticed that lately

you seem to have been subjected to a lot of negative vibrations from others. I value your point of view very highly and your perspective is always welcome. You have stretched me. I agree, you do not troll and your comments are usually highly informative. Hang in there.

[Autumn]

22. I'm so sorry Bohunk, he can't respond to you. I have blocked him from this group

[LiberalElite]

27. Thank you. I've noticed

1 SBM isn't the first to accidentally wander in here. "Oh, is this the Bernie Sanders Group? I must have taken a wrong left turn somewhere..." - (But strangely enough then they won't leave)

[A Simple Game]

38. Well in this case it would be meant to turn right but turned left instead.

But I know how it can happen, I never look at the group before clicking on a post from the greatest or latest page. I guess it is just a habit from DU I and DU II, protected groups never showed up on those pages.

[LiberalElite]

50. I dont' think I was around for those - I'm only here since Oct. 2012 eom

[LiberalElite]

31. 1sbm was trolling in here this a.m. too - grr

http://www.democraticunderground.com/128024003

He "didn't know" my a**.

[Autumn]

32. Well for sure he won't accidentally post again.

[Bohunk68]

35. This exchange has been eye-opening.

I don't check a lot of forums, usually just a few. So much other stuff to do. I had always merely thought the 1SBM was an ardent supporter of the Prez. Although, of late, he has been not so friendly to various sorts. I try to maintain a semblance of tolerance to all, and at times, you ignore while not putting on "ignore." I see Bernie as a man of my own generation, saying some of the things that we have been saying for a long time now. With Bernie, I feel, it's now or never for a real change.

[840high]

52. Of course he knew.

[senz]

46. Autumn, I was blocked from a Hillary group

merely for explaining how my opinion of her changed over time. I was surprised, especially b/c I wanted to go back in and explain that I think I understand how they feel about her and how some of the things I don't like about her may be nothing more than defense mechanisms on her part.

One person even called me a troll. I had been so open and sincere with them; it just amazed me.

[840high]

51. Thank you.

[uhnope]

5. what was Satan?

[DetlefK]

9. Old Testament? Or New Testament?

The devil of the Old Testament, Satan, was a trickster-figure to advance the plot and make God look good.

The devil of the new Testament, Lucifer, is the guy who commited the gravest possible sin. No, not murder. Refusing to obey the authority-figure.




In terms of story-telling, the devil wasn't executed very well. He doesn't really do evil things (trash-talking mostly) and is only declared evil by association, by refusing to be on God's side.
The pop-culture devil is a mix of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, Satan, Lucifer, the beast of the end-times, the Anti-Christ, reptile imagery from other middle-eastern religions, and symbolism from greek myth like the trident (symbol of power) and his look as a Satyr (which were pagan, hard-partying, animalistic f**k-beasts).

[Dont call me Shirley]

20. The Top Oligarch.

[aspirant]

23. Does he control all the money, every cent?

[Dont call me Shirley]

24. Money is a tool, created by man so...

Does the top oligarch control ALL the money in the world? Most, not all.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Seems that people of all stripes are "getting it", that this time it really does 'matter'

One of the those supporters was 40-year-old Elizabeth Hewitt, of Blount County, who said she has never felt like her vote mattered because she never heard a candidate’s message that resonated with her until Sanders.

“I didn’t like either candidate,” she told the newspaper. “I didn’t care who won because I felt it didn’t matter.”

[Feeling the Bern]

12. The Sandstorm is COMING!!! Go Bernie!!!

[hootinholler]

25. Gonna be a Bernami

Can't you see the waters receding?

[Autumn]

14. Can't get the video to load. Any pics anywhere?

[valerief]

19. This is very heartening to see in Alabama! nt

[hifiguy]

21. He is preaching the same political gospel that Robert Kennedy did in 1968

by speaking for the ignored, the downtrodden, the ordinary people and the forgotten. And there are even more of them now than there were then. There is an audience for it everywhere, even in the reddest states.

[Trajan]

26. +1,000,000 ....

RIP Bobby ....

[El Supremo]

28. I don't think Jews should tell us who Jesus was.

Even if he is right and is a hell of of guy.

He rejects Christ. Just keep Christianity out of it.

I have no hides, so alert away!

[bananas]

29. Bernie didn't say it, a supporter did

Another voter, 56-year-old Peter Stuart, of Lincoln, said the liberal senator had gotten him excited in politics again.

“He’s not just in it for the money or his own career,” Stuart said. “To me, he’s what politicians should be.”

Stuart plans to continue his monthly donations to the Sanders campaign because the senator’s democratic socialist views match his own Christian beliefs better than Republican’s lip service on family values.

“I think Jesus was a socialist,” Stuart said.

[beam me up scottie]

33. Why? Jesus was a Jew.

[staggerleem]

36. So is Bernie!

Not only that ... he put himself through college by doing woodworking projects, in other words ...

BERNIE SANDERS IS A JEWISH CARPENTER!

Anybody think THAT factoid might resonate with the Bible-thumpers?

[eShirl]

34. No alert, just commenting that

"us" includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Wiccans, Buddhists, Pastafarians, etc.

And as has already been pointed out, Jesus was also a Jewish guy.

Do you think everyone in non-Christian religions are members of their repective religions because they "reject Christ?" That seems an unusual viewpoint to me, but then again I don't get out much.

[A Simple Game]

40. And I don't think Christians should tell the rest of the world to follow his teachings.

Does that make us even?

As an agnostic I support Bernie for his principles not his religion.

[Joe Chi Minh]

44. Judaism was the womb from which Christianity sprang. You should show more respect

for Jewish people. Especially, when they express admiration for Jesus. God does not repent of his choices. One day they will be the 'bees' knees' again in Gods eyes (or the 'cat's whiskers', according to preference)

[senz]

47. El Supremo, Jesus is WAY bigger than "Christianity."

He would not appreciate being put in a little box (called a church) for people to fight over.

[AzDar]

39. Bernie!!

[MisterP]

42. Wanted

[Joe Chi Minh]

43. Jesus would defnitely be accused of being a Communist by right-wing Catholics,

as Pope Francis is, regularly. I particularly like this saying of Jesus, in Matthew 6:24:

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

But Francis, without seeming to mean to be caustic, defines his incorrigible critics (who constantly revile him effectively as a revolutionary, because he follow the church's actual teaching, clearly based on the Gospels), with the most withering accuracy.
He makes his point well in this article in the Vatican Insider:

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/francesco-sudamerica-42350/

The following paragraph appears in an another article, among a host of such good articles following his trip to South America. Note particularly the last sentence:

It is this outlook that allows Francis to pronounce courageous words, fully in tune with the Christian tradition. As St. Ambrose said: “It is not from your own possessions that you are bestowing aims on the poor, you are but restoring to them what is theirs by right. For what was given to everyone for the use of all, you have taken for your exclusive use.” “Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth but theirs,” St. John Chrysostom wrote. These were the teachings of the Fathers of the Church in the early years of the Church. So the question is not whether the Pope is a communist or spends too much time speaking about the poor. The real question is: why have these teachings been forgotten in the Church to the point that the Argentinean Pope’s preaching appears revolutionary?

[senz]

45. How soon before the other candidates start acting all "Bernie honest," etc.?

'Cause he's got the magic. I can just see the campaign advisers...."Try to come across more plain-spoken, just the facts, okay?" and "Refuse to put down your opponents."

Only, his is real.

[senz]

48. The earliest Christians were more socialistic than any of us.

"All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need" -- Acts 2:44-45

Heck, they lived like communists.

[Joe Chi Minh]

49. ... and that included land. I think Baranabus sold some land he owned in Cyprus.

But I may have him confused with another named disciple.