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Originally Posted by desertdetroiter
I thought everyone knew and understood that Jesus was a card carrying member of the Republican Party. He actually voted for Reagan back in 1980. YEA...he told me so himself.
I thought He was a Power Ranger???? Wrong Jesus . . .
The modern day American (note: American) Jesus drives a (horsepower V-8) pick-up truck, owns a closet full of guns, hates minorities (especially gays), wears his baseball cap backwards, always votes Republican, and owns a business. He complains about taxes and believes that $6 per hour for his employees is way too much. He preaches the American (note: American) virtues of hate, greed, selfishness, and violence. Because of this he has many American (note: American) followers.
Maybe the modern day Jesus may regard conservatives as not right wing enough.
Read the Bible. Jesus was not a politician. The Apostles initially that that Christ WAS a politician and that his kingdom would be one in which they would share on earth. They came to realize, initially to thier chagrin, that the kingdom was not on earth.
Christ was not a political leader at exactly the time the region was seeking such a political leader. He would be apolitical today, as he was then.
He wouldn't be a liberal. He supported helping the poor through charity not forced taxation. Plus Jesus would be against the moral decay that Democrats support.
If He remained the same as described in the Bible, I doubt he'd be interested in politics at all ("Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, give to God..."). Well, at least until our power-mad Government noticed too many people following him and decided to attack his commune in case there were children possibly being abused, or firearms possibly being accumulated, or non-approved ideas being discussed (like there possibly being a God that is NOT government).
If you notice in the Bible, He wasn't promoting that Government take care of the poor and disabled. He preached that people, through charity, should take care of the needy. I doubt he would have argued that the best way to serve the needy was to have Big Government confiscate huge amounts of money, pay for its own overhead and corruption and other activities, then parcel out some of the remaining money to charity organizations, who then pay for their own overhead (and sometimes corruption) before serving the needy. How incredibly inefficient. This is not a system that serves the needy; it's a system that serves itself using the excuse of the needy.
If He came back today, I think He'd be a Libertarian. With the power of omniscience, He'd know that that would be the system that would reduce the number of poor and their level of poverty, and give them a path to self-sufficiency. Obviously the Capitalist Welfare State isn't working for anyone other than the rich, and I don't know why anyone would want to keep going on the same failed path.
One think is also sure, He wouldn't support organized religion--yet another example of people using "the needy" as an excuse to achieve power and wealth.
He wouldn't be a liberal. He supported helping the poor through charity not forced taxation. Plus Jesus would be against the moral decay that Democrats support.
Moral decay?
John Ensign
David Vitter
Mark Sanford
Larry Craig
Mark Foley
Al Pubs. All immoral scumbags.All in the past five years. Look it up, don't take my word.
Notice how none of the conservatives in here come out and admit that they think that Jesus would be a Republican today. But they do believe it....even if they won't say so.
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He'd be too busy laughing to decide
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