Blog 4002 – 11.09.2026

Just So We’re Clear

Having spent the first half of my life as a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, to quote Lee Marvin’s line in a Western with a young Ron Howard, and the last half skeptical of all religious mythologies, I still recall having read the Bible many times and taking 82 semester hours of mostly Bible and theology classes that the Christian Nationalists have the story garbled up a bit.

As I  recall Jesus’ clear teaching was to love God with all your heart soul, mind, and strength and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Furthermore he defined the Christian life as how we treat the poor, the stranger, the sick, the imprisoned, the ones he referred to as the least of these my brethren.

Just trying to be clear, the Jesus I studied about loved everyone not just Americans, even if you consider all the Americans – North, South, and Central.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White