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Welcome!

May 30th, 2012 | Posted by Rich in Blog | Featured - ()

Dear new friends and friends of JWAD:

Welcome to JWNAR.org! It’s been a while in the transitioning, but we have finally morphed from JWAD.org into our current (and permanent!) incarnation. For a more detailed discussion of the reasons why we chose to rename ourselves Jesus was not a Republican, please see the last blog post dated 3/7/12. Suffice it to say herein, that we decided it would be better to declare that Jesus was not something he definitely was not, than to say he was something he very well couldn’t have been. Now that that’s clear ;) , we can move on.

As you can plainly see, our new site is similar to JWAD.org, with the exception of a few changes. Although not for a lack of ideal candidates, we have changed the weekly feature, Hypocrite of the Week (HOTW) to Hypocrite of the Month (HOTM). We just don’t have the man power to keep up with it weekly, and often fell short in the past. We’ll be sure to pack enough right-wing hypocrisy into each HOTM to last you the full month.

As for the Forum, we will again have a place for folks to express their opinions about a recent post, or about the issues of the day, whether they be age-old and tenacious “wedge” issues, or a current matter that has recently been in the news. We hope to have the Forum up and running in the coming weeks with a more accessible scope as described. Until then, you can voice your opinion after the blog posts, or on our facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jesus-was-not-a-Republican/311925502180080.

Aside from those changes, our features will remain as they were on JWAD. Our blog will remain active, providing new and usually original content 2-3 times weekly. Our JWNAR Store is up and running where you can purchase our latest t-shirt designs (and other items) to spread the word. Please continue to support us because that makes this site possible! And of course, we truly appreciate it.

To find other sites with a like vision, please visit our Friends page. It will become more densely populated as we go.

Well, thanks for waiting for us! We hope you visit us several times a week to see what we have going on that’s new and insightful or just straight up in their face (that would be the GOP’s face).  We will do our best to keep you interested and informed.

Thanks again for all of your previous and continuing support.

Respectfully,

 

JWNAR.org (Rich, Trevor and Chris)

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Jesus was not a Republican!

March 7th, 2012 | Posted by Rich in Blog | Featured - ()

Hi friends:

From the very beginning, when we were asked exactly what Jesus was a Democrat meant, the short answer was always, “Jesus was not a Republican.” In fact, instead of stating that “Jesus was a liberal,” we used the word “Democrat” in our name to specifically draw an antithetical contrast to the notion that Jesus was a Republican (i.e.,that He lived and demonstrated a right-wing ideology when he was alive).  For reasons unclear, we could not see what was in front of our collective faces. In retrospect, it is clear that we should have named our endeavor Jesus was not a Republican (JNR) and not JWAD. We would much rather state that Jesus wasn’t something he clearly wasn’t, than state that Jesus was something that can be endlessly debated. Of course, we firmly stand by our statement that Jesus was a staunch liberal, which is clearly demonstrated by His words and deeds as described in the New Testament. Now more than ever, with the Republicans lurching ever rightward on social issues, foreign policy and domestic policy (i.e., the war on women’s liberty, warmongering re: Iran, and the proposal to gut Medicare, respectively), we believe it is paramount that we should stand up and call the Right out for their hypocrisy. A large majority of them claim to be devout Christians, but their words and deeds are anything but characteristic of the example Jesus left for us in the Bible.

Before I get completely tangential and write a full thesis on our guiding philosophy which is well-documented throughout this site, let me get to the point of this post: We will be relaunching our website in the coming weeks at jesuswasnotarepublican.org.  We’ll let you know when. In the meantime, please visit us at our popular new facebook page at the following link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jesus-was-not-a-Republican/311925502180080?sk=wall. We promise that the debate is lively and there is rarely a dull moment. We hope to see you there!

Thank you so much for supporting us and spreading the word.

Respectfully,

JWAD/JNR

 

 

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