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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Sometimes, especially in this body, I feel as though if Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said…”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2020
Sometimes, especially in this body, I feel as though if Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago, that we should love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for the least of us, that it is easier for a rich man--it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into a kingdom of Heaven, he would be maligned as a radical and rejected from these doors.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

She reflects on how Christ's teachings would be rejected in today's political climate.

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