Tuesday, October 14, 2025

The Radical Jesus the Modern Church Could Never Accept [ Remembering early 20th century CHRISTIAN -SOCIALIST preacher Bouck White and his published " Letter from Prison " ]

It seems to me that that most New Atheism Cult evangelists also reject the " radical populist " Jesus of the Gospels and the New Testament. Their guiding light Christopher Hitchens was decidedly right wing moving when he wrote the now cult classic " God Is Not Great- how religion poisons everything ". The WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party based daily contempt for Christians and Christianity has its pillars in the secular ZIONIST Jew wing of the " progressive " Democratic Party in which both " guardian angel " of Israel Senator Chuck Schumer and phony " socialist " Bernie Sanders can be on the friendliest terms . Way back early in the 20th century " OUR democracy " had a vibrant socialist movement led by the likes of Eugene V. Debs. ( with whom Bernie has nothing in common ) . Back the there were Christian ministers who adapted their sermons to the growing socialist movement . One of the more famous was a guy named Bouck White , author of " Letters From Prison " . REVIEW below : [ "In sharp contrast to today's brand of "God wants you to be rich" spirituality, religious figures a century ago were asking the opposite Does Jesus frown on material wealth? One of the most outspoken voices so wondering was Bouck White, a Congregationalist minister in New York City, and in 1914, he was actually arrested and convicted on a trumped-up charge of disorderly conduct for continually posing this query to the privileged of Manhattan, which only turned him into a cause célèbre among the city's newspaper editorialists and social activists-and the bane of the Church hierarchy and economic elite. Collected here, his communications to the outside world during his incarceration serve as impassioned calls for justice not only for himself but for the downtrodden in an era of economic upheaval-and today, White's words remind us of a time not so long ago when popular champions of the poor and working class dared to risk their own well-being in the name of a higher cause. " American minister and author BOUCK WHITE (1874-1951) also wrote Quo Vaditis (1903), The Book of Daniel Drew (1910), The Call of the Carpenter (1911), The Mixing (1913), and The Carpenter and the Rich Man (1914).

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