Jesus - Mock Him Here!

[Marxist ßastard]

Okay, I think I speak for everyone here when I say that this is just downright disgusting.

 

As early as the first sentence and consistently until the final paragraph, Jesus makes the insinuation that he and the anarcho-capitalist goons he surrounds himself with are the only people in the world that could possibly be classified as “lovers of freedom.” I suppose this means that anyone who disagrees with him hates freedom, huh? Does this remind you of anybody? Once you get past the obvious ad hominem attacks, one can find the actual content to be even more hideous and disgusting. He first advocates privitization of all land, aggressive real-estate profiteering, and more of an ability to exploit land once it's been bought, changing the area for all others living there --- all of which would contribute to people being forced out of whatever land they occupy by a more aggressive real-estate market. Has it occurred to him that maybe some of us don't want to be forced to move, continent-to-continent, to keep up with the market? Some of us actually work for a living instead of being paid to come up with crackpot political theories; is it really wise to put an ocean's distance between us and the results of our labor? If Jesus's dream of there being no public land whatsoever is realized, then all those without the financial inertia necessary to compete with real-estate moguls would be forced into constant motion, from one country to another.

 

This wouldn't be half as bad if Jesus's work were at least internally consistent. How can people possibly have the freedom of movement that he “loves” so much if every speck of land adjacent to where you are at any given time is private property? With no public roads, are we to rent the land we travel across, paying by the footfall? I guess the old saying is true: we always hurt the ones we love.

 

If you have the constitution to keep reading toward the end of his work, you see that Jesus springs the trap on the new class of perpetual emigrants his policies would create: upon entering their new country, they get no rights. At all. A “lover of freedom” indeed. Why is it that Jesus wants Jim Crow laws to be passed against immigrants? Why, good question --- he thinks that anyone who moves between national borders does so in order to leech off the rich of the country. It is in this way that the ultimate irony of Jesus's political and economic philosophy plays out: the poor are all forced off their property by the rich and made to emigrate to countries where they can still afford to buy land --- at which point the third-world countries accuse the emigrants from developed nations of trying to leech off their wealth and oppress them through Jesus's draconian restrictions.

 

...And how about the fact that with his new class of people made nomads by a real-estate market gone mad, Jesus would be reversing the one cultural advancement that enabled the Neolithic Revolution? Jesus is obviously a man more comfortable in another time --- to wit, the Stone Age. I guess that somewhere along the line from division of labor to domestication of livestock, Jesus got future shock. Myself, I would rather that he and his heavy-handed economic policies be confined to that time. With any luck, he'd get quite rightly disemboweled the first time he begs a hunting party for meat in exchange for walking across the entrance-way to their own cave.

 

This is just absolutely incredible --- and to think, I used to believe Libertarians to a certain extent when they said they were realists. Now, it's more and more apparent that not only are Libertarians hypocrites, they also have absolutely no sense of what works in the real world. I mean, for Christ's sake, there wouldn't even be any state parks! Well, everyone else, have your say: is Jesus fit for this side of the BC/AD split, or should he be sacrificed to the aurochs?

[poopgoblin]

What? :huh:

 

I really have no clue what your getting at. Are you saying that we should just forget about Jesus? What?

[Marxist ßastard]

Did you even read the link?

[poopgoblin]

Oh, I didn't see the link. :blush: I thought you were talking about mocking Jesus Christ, the dude with the cross, not the dude with the sombrero, so I was kind of offended when I thought you were trying to mock Jesus (not the Hey-Zeus one), because, well, guess what my religion is?

 

My bad.

[Marxist ßastard]

the dude with the sombrero

Super racial stereotype go!

[poopgoblin]

Super racial stereotype go!

I'm not racist! Much.

[KzinistZerg]

There's a link?

 

I think you probably ought to put a little note in your post that this isn't a religious post, lest a mod come by and see the title and close it.

[Dark0ne]

Oh, we're well aware of how MB's humour works ;)

[hoots7]

Oh, we're well aware of how MB's humour works ;)

Humorous or not, will you give Dark0ne permission to change it to “Jesús Huerta de Soto” –Mock Him Here?

I know it may not be as attention grabbing but it’s a lot farther away from breaking the rules than what you got now.

[Peregrine]

Oh, we're well aware of how MB's humour works ;)

Humorous or not, will you give Dark0ne permission to change it to “Jesús Huerta de Soto” –Mock Him Here?

I know it may not be as attention grabbing but it’s a lot farther away from breaking the rules than what you got now.

 

Jesus, do you ever stop whining? I think the ****ing admin of the forum knows what is allowed under the forum rules.

 

The title of the thread is part of a joke from another discussion, and entirely appropriate. If you don't like it, feel free to leave.