Ezra Klein: “How do you understand that? Because I'm Jewish. But when I…”

“You're arguing for a scriptural basis for abortion. You're not just emphasizing in your politics different aspects of your faith, but you're very much challenging quite widespread interpretations of it. How do you understand that? Because I'm Jewish. But when I read the New Testament, I always come away a little bit amazed that politicized Christianity is so worried about gender, sexuality and so unconcerned with greed. You're preaching to the choir, you know. Absolutely. Concern for the poor, concern for the oppressed is everywhere. I mean, economic justice is mentioned 3,000 times in our scriptures, both the New Testament and the Hebrew scriptures.” (19:19–19:38)

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