Saturday, April 30, 2005
A Threat to the Social Order
A letter in today's Los Angeles Times raises, once again, the intriguing question of how your Jesus might expect to be received, were he to make a return visit to the USA today. What do you think, Bush? Do you think your folks would recognize and embrace him? A scruffy preacher from Nowheresville, defending the rights of the poor and the needy and lambasting the wealthy classes? Walking into a bank and literally trashing the place? Preaching outright sedition against your administration and the religious establishment? Speaking out against gun violence? Supporting the payment of taxes owed to the state ("render unto Caesar..."), and advocating tolerance for a sexual offender? I can't help but think that your evengelicals would be lining up to expose this man as a dangerous liberal leftist and to cast the first stone. Metaphorical, of course. And these are the same people who swoon at the mention of his name and claim him as their "personal savior"! Some small irony there, Bush. Wouldn't you agree?
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How true this is, Peter. Jesus would be decried a trouble maker and a mental case. This is indicative that there has been little change in the world --- wealth and power have always been a priority. Although they speak of the common good -- is it really?
If at all possible, Jesus would be totally ignored and confined just as the ever growing number of homeless in this country. There was a time (when housing and medical care were priced as necessities and not luxuries) when their numbers were not so overwhelming and they were considered an oddity. They were always loners and a homeless family was an impossibility. However, now, these things are commonplace.
... to paraphrase from the bible: ... You will listen and not understand, look and not see ... and .... They speak words to honor but it is no use to worship me -- their hearts are elsewhere teaching man-made rules and laws. If they could see they would beg for healing of mind and soul....
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