A central Bible verse left Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville puzzled Wednesday — as he compared himself to America’s poorest people.
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“Some of the people say your party’s, you know, punishing ‘the least of these,’” he was told.
“Punishing what? ‘The least of these?’”
“‘The least of these’ — biblical reference,” the reporter explained, referring to the famous verse in Matthew 25:40, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
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“The least of these?” Tuberville asked again, clearly puzzled.
They were trying to add a lot of substance to your point, with a slight correction that counters the common justification Christians use for their hypocrisy: “we don’t have to listen to the old testament if we don’t want to because I cast Jesus says shut up”