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“If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the needy to be treated as “parasites,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve ignored the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.” A meme based on this quote appeared on my facebook feed. Strange things to turn up when you take a closer look. God/Satan is in the details.
Where the original says “our Christianity”, the facebook version says “your”. The original says “we’ve”, while facebook says “you have”. “The needy” becomes “the elderly on social security”. The original is on the instagram of Benjamin R. Cremer. BRC “is a Wesleyan pastor, theologian, and writer based in Idaho. He currently serves as the Amity campus pastor at the Cathedral of the Rockies.”
The meme has the logo of Brian Tyler Cohen, and is on his facebook page. Rev. Cremer is not mentioned. As you might surmise, BTC is Jewish. Some would question the propriety of a Jew lecturing people on how to be Christian. Maybe that is why BTC changed “our” to “your”.
BTC is a curious character. He is the co-founder of Chorus Creator Incubator Program, a “dark money” effort to promote progressive influencers. “(Stuart) Perelmuter cofounded Chorus with Democratic influencer Brian Tyler Cohen, who has over 4.6 million subscribers on YouTube and leads messaging check-ins for the creator cohort on “rapid response days.”
There is also this: “Former David Pakman producer reveals that he, Brian Tyler Cohen, and Meidastouch decided to suppress coverage of Gaza because it was “too divisive” at White House meeting with Kamala Harris … I actually have an email from him after he visited the White House last year on the day of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. … And he told me in an email that they talked amongst themselves and came to the conclusion that the topic is too divisive, it might drag down their channels, that it’s a poison pill, and that it’s better if they just don’t talk about it at all.” The colossal tragedy of Israel’s war of annihilation in Gaza was too divisive for Democrats to talk about. (FWIW, David Pakman is a Chorus content creator.)
BTC may have the “right” to tell us how to be good Christians. A better question might be why we should care. All we know about the “teachings of Jesus” is what the Bible says. Not that this matters to “some” Christians. The church mostly talks about “Salvation,” not what Jesus said when he was alive. Logical consistency doesn’t matter when you are trashing MAGA.
Pointing out examples of hypocrisy is very boring. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the social media picture in August 1941. “Having dinner at the home of Ray Lyman, FSA client near Castleton, Vermont” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah