This is not the Jesus you learned about in Sunday School

The odd thing about America that so many Republicans (including the alt-right) desire is that it would absolutely reject Jesus if he were still alive today.

After all, Jesus was Jewish.

He was very much a socialist.

He was homeless. A refugee.

He was anti-death penalty. Anti-school prayer (Matthew 6:5). Anti-violence.

He strongly opposed the accumulation of wealth.

He never said a word about homosexuality or gay marriage.

And as much as the church might have you think otherwise, Jesus was not white. He was a brown-skinned Middle Easterner who wore sandals to the dinner table and hung out with tax collectors and prostitutes.

Also, unlike our Vice President, he could dine alone with a woman who was not his wife.

There is no room for Jesus in the America that Republicans like Mike Pence envision. Brown-skinned, Middle Eastern refugees have already been banned from our country. His anti-capitalistic rhetoric would be shouted down by Republicans. It would be difficult, if not impossible, for him to attend a Trump rally without being verbally, if not physically, assaulted (and have Trump offer to pay the legal fees of anyone who hit him).

There is no place in conservative, Evangelical, Trumpian America for Jesus, even though they invoke his name constantly.

I keep waiting for the smiting.