Was Jesus the world’s biggest bleeding heart liberal, or, Would Glen Beck call Jesus a Bum?
Conservatives often have strong notions of how to keep Old Glory flying high which often involve keeping certain people (= parasites) away from the pot of goodies that they have not earned, or alternately, which keep them parasitzed.
The parasites are people who need some assistance to make ends meet, and the fear is that they will keep the rest of us on a hamster wheel working for their salvation, or at least their existence. This is an adversarial relationship which presupposes that life would be better if the parasites could be separated from their host.
Jesus was an unprivileged man conceived by an unwed mother and born in a stable. He was dedicated to the concept of uplifting the non-productive parasites in his society, i.e. the “early Christians” before mega-churches with big screens, cheerleaders and quad sound systems.
Jesus was a thorn in the side of the Roman status quo which had consolidated power amongst the elite. Instead of genuflecting to authority, Jesus provided free wine and loaves and fishes on a socialist basis (= commodities). He also performed healing miracles for the most unsavory amongst his society (= free health care). Jesus was better than an EBT card.
These miracles tried to give the masses their “fair share” of the largesse of a newly sent Godson. “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). He was not speaking to the bankers.
As for the issue of illegals, wasn’t the unverified journey to Bethlehem by a future mother of God an attempt by the Romans to deal with illegal immigration? And how did that end up for the Roman Empire?
Jesus’s message formed the basis of a new religion which appealed to the hoi polloi of the times, and is now the predominant religion of the developed Western nations. But somehow, the founder’s method was warped into something called prosperity gospel, and many Christians think that God somehow holds those in lower socio-economic rungs in disdain.
However, the words of their founder belie this notion:
- “Sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor …” (Luke 18:22; Matthew 19:21)
- “But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you?” (James 2:7)
- “And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee” (Leviticus 25:35)
- “I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak” (Acts 20:34)
- “He has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away empty” (Luke 1:53). “Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt” (Exodus 22:21).
Since Christianity is a socialist dogma, we concludes that the religion underpinnings of our faith is the problem with our economy and not the solution.
We seem to be led in the U.S. by the mish-mash that is the Old Testament meets the New: An eye for an eye, yet turn the other cheek — “forgive up to seventy times seven”. Do we/should we follow Christian values when dealing with religious enemies? Should “values” issues (homosexual rights; abortion rights) even be a part of national political discourse?
If someone would turn some water into wine, we’ll drink to the elimination of biblical dogma from the halls of Congress.
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Author: tdomf_15f10
10:40 am
He provided free fish and bread to peoples of his own doing. He did not tax the hard working to forecefully give to the lazy.
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10:50 am
Glenn Beck is not a Christian, he is a mormon.
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11:47 am
you spelled “moron” wrong
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5:04 pm
Billings, I thought you had a boner for Glenn Beck. What happened?
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5:06 pm
Did you forget? He likes the kids.
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5:09 pm
HO DARE YOU TALK ABOUT STEVEN LIKE THAT> HE IS A GOOD MAN! HE ONLY RAPED 1 GIRL BUT NOBODY FOUND HERE BODY! SO SHUTTT UP!!1
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5:22 pm
due u r so bipolar,……………. i like it got a facebook? add me! click the name bro,
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5:24 pm
You should charge him Alison.
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4:54 pm
I just can’t believe that a CHISTIAN site calls Yeshua, Jesus. The name Jesus was gven to him mockingly as the killed him, by calling him Jesus you’re siding with the Jews you bunch of idiots. The more I come here the more I realize why people dislike Christians. They speak without knowing far too often..
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3:07 pm
His Name is ineffable: the names used in this realm are “bynames”, nicknames to know of whom we speak. As long as the Name is said with worship in the heart He will hear the meaning.
Oh fortunate Man that has known that the Feet of the Most High spurned not the World!
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9:23 pm
I don’t believe a word of this article. Jesus is for rugged individualism, a strong military, and preservation of the traditional family. He hated communists and the proof is that they are all burning in hell now.
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2:19 am
The author used made up words like “genuflecting”.
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2:27 am
You lot use made up words all the time.
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3:02 pm
What could be thought of as communist in one of us is holy from Him, we cannot judge His actions anyway, but His ways are beyond anything but the feeblest of our understanding.
But even by our unworthy standards we can easily say that He was good to His mother: even from the Cross He settled her in with His Beloved friend, John.
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1:59 am
I was always leery of the whole Jesus thing because of that whole “suffer the children to cum to me” bit. sounds kind of sketchy to me. As a good parent I’m keeping my kids far away from that stuff.
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