Perkins: Liberals are the real theocrats because they want to help the poor

Perkins said Jesus never asked the Roman government occupying Israel during his lifetime to help care for the poor using tax money, which he’d instructed his followers to willingly give up.

“He never said to Rome, to the Romans, ‘Hey, you guys need to make sure that you’re taking out of one person’s pocket to put into another,’” Perkins said.

Perkins, whose organization promotes the idea that God is “the author of life, liberty and the family” and the “Judeo-Christian worldview as the basis for a just, free and stable society,” said it was actually liberals who wished to impose their religion on government.

“This is how disingenuous the Left is,” Perkins said. “They accuse evangelicals of wanting to create a theocracy, which is the farthest thing from the truth, when in fact, they are treating the government as if it had divine instruction from God to be a form of theocracy.”