So this is why the Jesus Christianists hate Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel and Dimed” so much. Hat tip to @stopbeck for mentioning the effort to ban it, which goes back years but has a consistent Christian-Right taint.

“It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income inequality and the need for a hike in the minimum wage. But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth,” Ehrenreich writes.

Yeah, that Jesus was one radical, wine-bibbing dude, consorting with sinners, strumpets, and (shudder) TAX COLLECTORS while droning on and on about the poor, the downtrodden, the hungry, and those lousy peaceniks. They prefer him dead for our sins rather than living in our hearts, calling us to walk in his ways

Via (ugh) Fox News