I’m guessing that people are trying to find commonalities. They relate biblical passages to other ideas they are trying to flog. It’s understandable when people want to relate ideas to things they think others will understand. Obviously it doesn’t work with everyone.
Whether it is true or not is irrelevant. The only thing that matters with rhetorical techniques is whether they work. Republicans lie about all kinds of things and the lies work. In my experience, whoever lies first wins most of the hearts and minds. Few people pay attention to the counter-attacks.
In this case, it’s kind of useless for the liberals to try to get the bible on their side, since the conservatives already won that battle. There is no longer any place for a compassionate vision of Christianity in contemporary politics. I know that many liberals want to say that that’s not their vision or version of Christianity, but they fail to realize they have already lost. If they want compassion, they need a new religion.
Better yet, in my opinion, is to give up on Christianity. Not that that will happen since people are attached to what they grew up with. So, business as usual. Republicans walking around smiting everyone with baseballs bats and bashing their brains to the floor while liberals walk around with nets trying to keep everyone from being hurt.
You know, I used to be sympathetic to the communists when I was young. They were pretty radical in their support of the working people. Since then, things have gotten too nice for any poorer people to try to organize for their own good. Maybe with the economy as bad as it is, poor people will organize and go after the rich. Except, no. Christianity will keep them on the straight and narrow. Poor people should be nice to their oppressors and hope for a few crumbs.
Pah! Why should I care? I’m doing all right. If poor people want to stay poor, what’s it to me? I’ll tell you what it is. A rising tide raises all boats. A sinking tide sinks us all.