Jeffrey Sachs

The greatest speech I know of is the Sermon on the Mount.

It's unbelievable.

For everybody, for the whole world.

This isn't a matter of who believes, but blessed are the peacemakers.

Of course.

Should resonate.

I think it does resonate with people all over the world.

The message of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount is completely the opposite of what we're doing right now.

And that is not from a Christian or Jewish or any other.

That's from a human perspective because he was speaking about humanity, about what is decent for human beings, about how human beings should treat other people.

They should not kill them.

They should not make strangers out of them.

The good Samaritan was the one that rescued the man on the side of the road.

Yes.

The Samaritan who was the outsider, he's teaching us something.

And the part that I love about the teaching that I think is so important is why do you point to the moat in the other's eye when you have the plank in your own eye?

And what Jesus is saying very clearly, don't be a hypocrite and don't just say they're evil.

without reflecting on yourself.

This is so basic.

All of that is left out because this new version of Judaism or of Christian Zionism is one chapter of Genesis, or maybe two, chapter 15 and chapter 18, God's promise.