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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi all,

I am looking for a church in the DC area. Preferably Episcopalian or Presbyterian, but honestly any mainline Protestant church will do. The difficulty is I am looking for a church that is NOT overly political - seems to be an issue in DC, where all of the churches are either aggressively conservative or liberal. I am trying to avoid lectures about how MAGA/social justice is the way, the truth, and the light and just trying to find a traditional church. Any recommendations? I don't want to be subjected to sermons about critical race theory or Donald Trump being the most Christian president ever (which, as a Christian, lol no). Any suggestions?

Thanks![/quote]

What?

Jesus preached social justice.  Have you read the Bible?  At all?  Jesus’ tirades against the wealthy, and the moneychangers and the Pharisees and the fascist Roman rulers (Pontius Pilate, for example.)

You seem to be looking for a social club, not a church.  I hear Zog Sports has some openings.[/quote]

Christian charity, being voluntary and heartfelt, is utterly distinct from the compulsory, impersonal mandates of the state.

One can scour the New Testament and find nary a word from Jesus that calls for empowering politicians or bureaucrats to allocate resources, pick winners and losers, tell entrepreneurs how to run their businesses, impose minimum wages or maximum prices, compel workers to join unions, or even to raise taxes.

One  of the charges that led to Jesus’s crucifixion was indeed tax evasion.

Christians are commanded in Scripture to love, to pray, to be kind, to serve, to forgive, to be truthful, to worship the one God, to learn and grow in both spirit and character. All of those things are very personal. They require no politicians, police, bureaucrats, political parties, or programs.

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want,” says Jesus in Matthew 26:11 and Mark 14:7. The key words there are you can help and want to help. He didn’t say, “We’re going to make you help whether you like it or not.”

Jesus clearly held that compassion is a wholesome value to possess, but I know of no passage in the New Testament that suggests it’s a value he’d impose by force or gunpoint—in other words, by socialist politics.

Socialists are fond of suggesting that Jesus disdained the rich, citing two particular moments: his driving of the money-changers from the Temple and his remark that it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. In the first instance, Jesus was angry that God’s house was being misused. Indeed, he never drove a money-changer from a bank or a marketplace. In the second, he was warning that with great wealth, great temptations come, too.

These were admonitions against misplaced priorities, not class warfare messages.
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