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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuffPo: 'Jesus Was A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary' Post By John Fugelsang Is Spot On
Found this Huffington Post piece
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/28/jesus-radical-nonviolent_n_4512335.html
via a tweet from John Fugelsang this morning:
https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/417310572061790209
John FugelsangVerified account ?@JohnFugelsang
One of our magnets went viral and made Huffington Post - http://huff.to/1dfLY48 via @HuffPostRelig pic.twitter.com/2tGH81itkW
9:06 AM - 29 Dec 13
Large photo here:
https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/417310572061790209/photo/1/large
The text there -- and I agree with HuffPo that it's "spot on" and "pretty incredible":
Jesus was a radical nonviolent revolutionary who hung around with lepers hookers and crooks; wasn't American and never spoke English; was anti-wealth anti-death penalty anti-public prayer (M 6:5); but was never anti-gay, never mentioned abortion or birth control, never called the poor lazy, never justified torture, never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes, never asked a leper for a copay; and was a long-haired brown-skinned homeless community-organizing anti-slut-shaming Middle Eastern Jew. - John Fugelsang
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)But watch all the people who claim to be Biblical literalists suddenly start parsing words in pseudo-pious legalism to avoid having to, say, pay taxes to support the poor.
Hi, I'm brand new here, I tried to introduce myself, but it said that I hadn't posted enough yet to start a new thread.
Anyway, I'm a Christian libertarian light so to speak. I found this post of yours very interesting in light of the fact that it's so true! Jesus loved sinners, after all that's who He came for as He said.
I have been disenchanted by so many who attempt to justify hatred of others because of their sin or lifestyles. There are so many hateful Christians today that it saddens me to see the body of Christ be so misrepresented by ignorant people who want to call themselves "Christians".
Thank you for sharing this.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)arikara
(5,562 posts)canoeist52
(2,282 posts)"And I don't know if I want white America to remember or to forget
That Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary"
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cali
(114,904 posts)and may well have been a figment of several imaginations
arikara
(5,562 posts)but I think the only time Jesus displayed enough agitation to be classed as violence was when he tossed the money changers tables around. And of course that's the group that these despicable ones love and protect.
Alkene
(752 posts)j/k, I know that isn't really the point.
Cha
(297,323 posts)there will be those who use his name falsely.
Ain't that the truth.
thanks highplainsdem