Jesus and the Government

[Brighid]

hundinman: Birthday: 17 February 1989

from your profile.

 

In the US, this means you aren't old enough to vote.

[Darnoc]

I voted republican (first one so far) becuase in the Holy Bible, Jesus says that those who do not work will not eat. If I find the referance to this verse i will update my post with it until then I have no proof that its there except my word. So, you choose to believe it or not.

 

LOL, Hundiman, please think before writing such things. Sorry, Hundiman, but it is true. What is with people who can't work because they are injured or ill? What is with people who can't work because they don't get a job (because some dumb-ass at the top decided to get rid of some jobs)? When what you say is true, those people will not eat.

 

Now at the time when Jesus lived there were no employees who could be fired. Most people worked in agriculture, on their family farm or had another job which they inherited from their partents. And those who couldn't work in a normal job (like blind or crippled), they lived on the street and hoped that someone would come their way and gave them some money. You can't just apply this sentence of Jesus in our time one to one, it is not possible. The whole situation in these times was a lot more different then today. I would interpret the sentence like this: "Anyone who doesn't work, but who could work (but he doesn't, because he is too lazy) will not eat" and there it is perfectly just.

[Captain Obvious]

Jesus would not be part of any political party. Can anyone seriously see him promoting the Missle Defense Shield or defending Roe v. Wade?

 

He would be a radical nutter out in some combination of right and left field.