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Title: Was Jesus a libertarian?
Source: http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/jesuslbt.html
URL Source: http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/jesuslbt.html
Published: Apr 12, 2005
Author: Doug Newman
Post Date: 2005-04-12 09:15:16 by Continental Op
Keywords: libertarian?, Jesus
Views: 227
Comments: 16

If Jesus were alive in America today, would He be a Republican or a Democrat?

Would He be a socialist, a pacifist, and promote every sort of social deviance? Or would He establish a police state in order to eradicate all social ills?

To hear it from the mainstream media, as well as from many churches, Jesus would favor one or the other of these scenarios. Indeed, many preachers are almost as eager as politicians to tell us that how we vote is a barometer of our religious faith.

Or, would Jesus be a libertarian? He just may be, if you spell it with a small "l". Just as a chaplain leading a team in pre-game locker room prayer asks for more important things than a victory in the upcoming game, it would be frivolous to ask God for Libertarian political victories. Instead, what I mean here is that Jesus did not have a political agenda. He never put a gun at anyone's head and said, "Follow Me!"

As He said to the church in Laodicea, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hears my voice, and open the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me." (Revelation 3:20) Even though this was a wayward and spiritually weak church, Jesus would not force His way back in. Rather, He would re-enter by invitation only.

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#1. To: Continental Op (#0)

If Jesus were alive in America today, would He be a Republican or a Democrat?

I don't know about that but I bet he would be a perpetual defendant in a multitude of ACLU cases.

wbales  posted on  2005-04-12   9:18:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: All (#1)

Morris Dees and the SPLC would probably be on his ass, as well.

wbales  posted on  2005-04-12   9:19:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: wbales (#1)

I don't know about that but I bet he would be a perpetual defendant in a multitude of ACLU cases.

If not the target of a JDL bomb.

Dakmar  posted on  2005-04-12   9:22:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: wbales (#1)

If Jesus were alive in America today, would He be a Republican or a Democrat?

I don't know about that but I bet he would be a perpetual defendant in a multitude of ACLU cases.

"How dare you heal this man without his parent's express written permission!"
Drawing crowds without a permit.
The Wine industry files suit for turning water into wine w/o a license.
Misuse of public property. Separation of church and state.
Mercury poisening in fish (the feeding of the 5,000).

Yeah, I can see it now.

robin  posted on  2005-04-12   9:23:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Continental Op (#0)

Was Jesus a libertarian?

An irrelevant question, manufactured in some finite human brain.

The more important question would be, "Are libertarians like Jesus?"

CWRWinger  posted on  2005-04-12   9:24:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: CWRWinger (#5)

The more important question would be, "Are libertarians like Jesus?"

Another important question: "How much money could Israel get out of him?"

wbales  posted on  2005-04-12   9:31:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: wbales (#6)

Selling tickets to the crucifixion?

robin  posted on  2005-04-12   9:33:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Continental Op (#0)

Or would He establish a police state in order to eradicate all social ills?

He will establish a theocracy where there are no other gods, only the true and living God will be worshipped. Those who rebel will be killed instantly.

But before He returns to reign, I believe God's ideal is no government at all, no taxes on natural born citizens of this gov'tless country. All citizens would own and maintain their own tanks, warships, machine guns, etc. Any foreign invader would literally have to fight every citizen, every foot of the way.

Only godly men who are in submission to God can have this gov'tless country. That's the hard part.

CWRWinger  posted on  2005-04-12   9:35:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Continental Op (#0)

I think Jesus would be pretty much apolitical.. and He certainly would not be a dominionist..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-04-12   9:35:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: CWRWinger (#8)

He will establish a theocracy where there are no other gods, only the true and living God will be worshipped. Those who rebel will be killed instantly.

On this I vehemently disagree..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-04-12   9:36:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: robin (#7)

Selling tickets to the crucifixion?

Ouch. ;>)

wbales  posted on  2005-04-12   9:37:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Zipporah (#10)

On this I vehemently disagree..

Well, what's your point?

CWRWinger  posted on  2005-04-12   9:38:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: CWRWinger (#8)

He will establish a theocracy where there are no other gods, only the true and living God will be worshipped. Those who rebel will be killed instantly.

So all those Buddists, Hindu, Judao-Islamic, types, et. al., will be killed instantly???

Perhaps it is just me but that sounds less than compassionate.

wbales  posted on  2005-04-12   9:41:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: wbales (#6)

"How much money could Israel get out of him?"

Only as much as He allows them to have.

CWRWinger  posted on  2005-04-12   9:43:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: wbales (#13)

So all those Buddists, Hindu, Judao-Islamic, types, et. al., will be killed instantly???

Those who don't keep it to themselves, yes.

CWRWinger  posted on  2005-04-12   9:44:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: wbales (#13)

Perhaps it is just me but that sounds less than compassionate.

The Old Testament is full of stories of God commanding Israel to annihilate the evil and rebellious nations. Is it compassionate, on a societal level, to allow SOdom and Gomorrah to go on existing? The compassionate thing is to erratic the disease so the rest of humanity can prosper.

I don't believe in Bush's "compassionate conservativism" either, because it's basically evil. "Compassionate conservatism" is made possible because of legal plunder, theft of property and the redistribution thereof for the empowerment of the elite.

CWRWinger  posted on  2005-04-12   9:53:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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