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Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 5, 2023

I attended an interfaith event last Friday & the evangelical pastor lamented to me,"America's lost her way because we've forgotten Jesus."

I responded, "As a Muslim I love Jesus too—but when exactly would you say America 'followed' Jesus? Was it during Native Genocide? Slavery? Jim Crow? Denying women equal rights? While invading Iraq?”

Deafening silence.

If you want to show me your faith, first show me your service to ALL humanity—regardless of faith or no faith. B/c faith w/o works is dead.

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Montana Magpie

@QasimRashid —

Your points are dead on. I think it would be more accurate to say that America, as a whole, was never listening to Jesus in the first place.

I think there has always been a minority here that did follow Jesus. They were recognizable because they were the ones who actually lived by the Sermon on the Mount: not resisting evil, not clutching at property, giving freely to those in need. But they were indeed a small minority. They never held power.