MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd shared how he believes Jesus Christ would be treated if he were alive today, saying he would be “called woke.”
During an appearance on “Deadline: White House,” Dowd commented on Michigan Democrat state Sen. Mallory McMorrow who was accused of “grooming.”
She pushed back against the accusations in a speech.
“I didn’t expect to wake up yesterday to the news that the senator from the 22nd District had, overnight, accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an email fundraising for herself,” McMorrow said.
She added, “So I sat on it for a while wondering: Why me? And then I realized: Because I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. Because you can’t claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of ‘parental rights’ if another parent is standing up to say no.”
Host Nicolle Wallace mentioned faith and McMorrow’s claim that there are some using the “perversion” of faith as a “political cudgel” in conversations surrounding policies impacting kids, as Fox News noted.
“This is something that I have tried to talk about: Being a Christian, having grown up Catholic, having been an altar boy and all of that – how the faith has been captured by a small segment of our society who have tried to define it in a way that Jesus never had defined it, and actually the opposite way of Jesus,” Dowd said.
He added, “The entire message of the gospels of the Easter holidays was love one another. And I have said this before, and I’ll say it again: If Jesus Christ was alive today, He would be called a groomer, He would be called woke, and He would be called a socialist if He was alive today.”
Dowd argued if Jesus “was speaking the message He spoke in the gospels today about treating everybody with dignity – Jesus Christ hung around with prostitutes and tax collectors. He was nailed to a cross because He spoke on behalf of the most marginalized people in the Middle East.”
Watch his comments below:
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Dowd made similar comments last year, as Fox News reported.
“As I sat in church today I was thinking that if Jesus were here today he would be accused of being woke,” Dowd said.
He continued, “How about we just say it is human decency to treat all with respect and dignity and that it is constitutional to say all men and women are equal.”
The outlet noted Dowd previously served as an ABC News political analyst and an adviser to George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000.
Additionally, he was the chief strategist for the former president’s reelection campaign in 2004.
