Tweet FTW: Willie Nelson, GQP, and Jesus. Wait for it.

[Tommymac]

Link to tweet

[ananda]

1. LOL

Love it.

[malaise]

2. Love me some Willie

Oh yes- and he’s not worried

[Tommymac]

13. Great Song. Thank You!

Old union tune. Still hits home in the 21st Century.

Worried man worried man I'm a weary worried man
Hungry babies don't understand papa is a worried man
The place I used to draw my pay slammed the door on me today
And told me just to stay away and no come back again
I went back home to bring the news my woman saw that I had the blues
But she said the babies need new shoes and I'm a worried man
Worried man worried man...
Well there is no way that I can see that I can feed my family
'Cause I don't own no money tree and very little lam
But I said mama don't you cry I'll get a job up fore the day's gone by
I don't know where though and that is why I'm a worried man
Worried man worried man...
Worried man worried man...

[malaise]

15. LOL

very little land not lam.

[Poiuyt]

3. I told a conservative about the book "Jesus was a Liberal" and he agreed

In his mind that meant, of course, a liberal in the classic sense of little government, etc.

Conservative Christians are nothing but hypocrites.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. "Conservative Christians are nothing but hypocrites.".....

or assholes.........

[Poiuyt]

5. They're not mutually exclusive

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Sad....but probably true........

and I believe even my own parents would have been 'concerned' with this latest 'wave....'

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. Or conservative Christians can be sweethearts

The ones the assholes take advantage of. The ones that are pushovers, the trusting kind ones that want to believe their leaders and fellow parishioners would never steer them wrong, because they are led by a pure and good God. Both my parents were died hard Evangelical Christians, conservative voters, and you'd never meet more sweeter generous folks

[MyOwnPeace]

20. Yeah, my parents were the same......

and like I said 'up there' - I don't think they would have "changed" or abandoned their church, I do think they may have been 'concerned' - you know, like Senator Collins from Maine....

[keithbvadu2]

7. little government... in the sense of total control theocracy by the right kind of Christians

[soldierant]

8. In Jesus's day, it wasn't really possible for an individual,

not in a government office, to influence what the government did or what its policies were. Jesus didn't say much about it. - "Render unto Caesar" probably means something like "Let the government do what it does. You are to live in righteousness. If your righteousness comes into conflict with the government to the point where they lock you up, then you get locked up and don't complain. But whatever happens, don't allow them to get you to do wrong."

At least, that was pretty much how his disciples lived after he was gone. A lot of them went to prison. I don't remember any of them attempting to influence the government to rule a certain way. Attempting to invluence a few individual officials to become Christians, yes. Not the same thing.

But now that such things as democracies exist, I do think Christians do have a duty to influence goverment in the direction of being Christlike, Not in the direction of being "Christian" where that is synonymous with "tribal."

And it appears fairly obvious that a Christlike government would be socialistic in nature. The description of the apostles' lives in communes after Jesus ascended is as near to Karl Marx's motto "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" as is humanly possible.

The even more obvious fact that, over the centuries, individual Christians, and groups of Christians, including large groups, have not behaved remotely like that doesn't change the fact that it's what we should be doing, if we have the faintest intention of being Christlike.`

[calimary]

9. No kidding.

[soldierant]

22. Thanks.

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. I've been waiting!

Great tweet!

[Wounded Bear]

11. K & R...nt

[yardwork]

12. That is funny.

[Achilleaze]

14. k and r

[markie]

16. perfect

[llashram]

17. great post

[Lifelong Protester]

19. Ain't that a good one!

[SCantiGOP]

21. You talking about the long-haired, brown-skinned Palestinian utopian communist?

Hell, he and George Washington and Santa Claus were all MAGA supporters. I saw it on FOX News.