Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the National Baptist Convention that she is “amazed watching how God works” through leftist politics.
“I have been amazed watching how God works in the last one to two years, especially, because at the beginning of last year, I traveled the country, I went with Senator Sanders, we did rallies, and we went to places that all of the political pundits and analysts said was impossible and made no sense to go,” she said. “These are not places that are toss-ups, these are not places that are swing districts or any of that. Why would you go to Idaho? Why would you go to Montana? Why would you go to Utah?”
“I felt very called,” the lawmaker declared.
“Now, this is a word, it is a miracle to see what happened,” she added, explaining a stop in Utah. “One of our first stops that we went to was in Utah. Utah was one of the states where they also redrew all the maps. Deep red districts everywhere, and we went anyway.”
We spoke with all of these people, and we said, ‘We must have the faith of a mustard seed. We must organize anyway. We must build anyway, and if all you can get is a seat on your PTA, you get that seat on your PTA.’
“One year later, out of nowhere, a judge strikes down Utah’s map and they are ordered to redraw. And it is only because of the organizing that we did in faith when there was no evidence,” the lawmaker explained. “No evidence. There was nothing to point to, no nothing material. But we said we have to do this work.”
Other progressive lawmakers have attempted to incorporate God into their ideology. Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico declared that “God is not a Christian.”
“There are so many pathways to the sacred. The Islamic mystic Rumi said, ‘Every religion has love, but love has no religion. God is so much bigger than our human categories,’” Talarico said. “God is not a Presbyterian. God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all. God is a verb. God is not a being. God is being self. God is love, and that’s why Jesus is against anything that gets in the way of that love between neighbors, including religion.”
