A Jew Asks What Would Jesus Do?

[Stevepol]

Here's a really meaningful take on Christianity, which encapsulates all that religion should signify ala the Iraq War. From Common Dreams. Hope it's not a dupe.



Published on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 by the Boulder Daily Camera (Colorado)
A Jew Asks: What Would Jesus Do?
by Ira Chernus

Throughout this Christmas season, two things have been inescapable: songs about Jesus and news about war. Even those of us who are not Christian might do well occasionally to ask, “What would Jesus do?”

But then we’d have to ask, “Which Jesus?” The Jesus of Matthew, who loves even his enemies and turns the other cheek? The Jesus of John, who loves only his friends who do His Father’s will? Or the Jesus of Revelations, who fights against Satan by any means necessary -- bringing not peace, but the sword -- until all evil is finally subdued? Perhaps the real Jesus is that little baby in the manger. Like every baby, he is pure potential. He can become anything and everything.

If I were a Christian, in this world so full of violence (perpetrated more often with dollars and euros than with guns and land mines), I’d opt for Matthew’s Jesus. But historically speaking, I’d be in the minority. Over the centuries, the most popular Jesus has been a sort of “house blend,” drawn mostly from Revelations, the Gospel of John, and the letters of Paul.


Link:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1226-21.htm

[Cleita]

1. What Jesus did was throw the money changers out of the

Temple and he got the entrenched establishment pissed with him that led to a series of events that led to his condemnation as an enemy of the Roman state and subsequent crucifixion.

So if you want to start with throwing the present day money changers out of our Temple, there might be similar results, except this time they might call it a suicide.

[bullimiami]

2. jesus was a jewish ultra peacenik and super liberal.

its obvious what he would have done and obviously there arent like minds in many seats of power.