(Sunday Homily) Jesus Had More in Common with ISIS than with the United States

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Sunday-Homily-Jesus-Had-by-Mike-Rivage-Seul-Christian_Cross_Empire_God-140912-775.html



(Sunday Homily) Jesus Had More in Common with ISIS than with the United States
By Mike Rivage-Seul
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/14/2014 at 05:00:01

Today is the feast of "The Exaltation of the Holy Cross." It might as well be called the feast of "The Exaltation of the Electric Chair" or of the exaltation of death row or of torture or terrorist martyrs. For relevance's sake, we might today call the feast "The Exaltation of ISIS or Al Qaeda."

That's because the cross on which Jesus died was not only empire's instrument of unspeakable torture and capital punishment. It was also the punishment the Romans reserved for terrorist insurgents against their empire. Among many others, biblical scholar, Reza Aslan underlines that point in his best-selling study, Zealot . (I recommend the book.)

All of that indicates that the Romans thought of Jesus as a terrorist -- just as "Americans" do its enemy du jour whether we call them ISiS, ISIL, or al Qaeda. Let me repeat, Christians worship someone whom the quintessential empire (Rome) and its hangers-on vilified as much as President Obama vilified ISIS last Wednesday night in his address to the nation announcing yet another war. In the eyes of Rome and its Jewish collaborators, Jesus was a terrorist belonging to the Zealot revolutionary movement. Roman collaborators said he was stirring up the people and trying to take Caesar's throne by force (LK 23:5, JN 19:15).

~snip~

That is, following Jesus means all of us should be traitors and rebels and enemies of the murderous state the U.S. has become. This is particularly true since our "leaders" have chosen the path of war without end.

[still_one]

1. What a bullshit analogy. When was the last time Jesus told his followers to behead someone, or to

kill anyone who didn't follow sharia law.

Glad you were able to get in that Rome had its, "Jewish collaborators", and you wonderful conclusion about those that "following Jesus means all of us should be traitors and rebels of the murderous U.S'

What twisted perverted logic

Jesus was a pacifist, who was incidentally Jewish at the time of his death, and not only indicated that philosophy, but also:

"Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Yup, sounds just like what ISIS is doing.

Most idiotic thing I have read in a long time

Making a comparison to Gandhi or Martin Luther King would have been more accurate. Making a comparison to ISIS is fucked up

[tazkcmo]

2. I guess

if you believe in all that stuff.

[cali]

3. this reads like parody. it's incredibly stupid.

what was your point in posting it?