jesus was a liberal jew

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lbj
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jesus was a liberal jew

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jesus lived and died a liberal jew not a conservative christian. he was the rabbi of a shool. he associated with the poor and the oppressed. he was friends with drunks and prostitutes. he had no rich friends. he supported redistribution of wealth. he encouraged drinking and communal property rights by changing water into wine instead of buying it from the local liquor store. he multiplied bread and fish instead of buying them from the local walmart. he gave free medical care by curing the blind, reviving the dead, etc. he never asked to their insurance card before performing a miracle. he was crucified by the religious right.

it is the height of hypocrisy for the american religious right to claim they love jesus. his life and works were everything the religious right hates. if he were alive today sarah palin and pat robertson would be the first ones in line to lead the lynching mob to string him up. their crowds would be yelling terrorist, kill him.
were jesus here today he would be voting for the community organizer barak obama, not for the republican money changers. peace be unto you.

shalom shalaam
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how true. thanks lbj
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pip,

this christian right really perplexes me. maybe its because i am not a christian. these fundamentalists go all gaga over jesus but totally reject his teachings about social and political issues. they kiss the butts of the fat cats and denigrate the poor. the crazy thing about it is that most of them are poor or lower middle class who will never have capital gains to pay taxes on. joe the plumber is a perfect example of what i mean. he makes $40k a year and is worried that obama wants to tax those making over $250k. poor will never make $250k and with his actual pay will benefit much more from obamas tax proposal than mccains.

the educated and relatively wealthy are for the most part liberals willing to pay taxes to share their good fortune with those who were not as fortunate.

i dont know if its a lack of education, indoctrination by greedy preachers and politicians or just plain low iq that makes blind to how badly they are being screwed by their churches and far right politicians.

any thoughts why they behave so illogically?
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richard nixon only said one thing i believe.
" it is easier to believe a lie one has heard a thousand times, than a fact no one has heard before."

susan deeds, phd, latin american historian, was doing studies for water/land issues south of the border.
she had been in the archives in Seville, had the original document granting land and water rights to one of the pueblos. the people in the pueblo "remembered" a date some 80 years after the actually grant occurred, and continue to believe the date they remembered, rather than the fact.

religion is the opiate of the masses.
even if you believe the bible in entirety, before the crucifiction, there were power games and jealousy among the disciples.
most non christian religious text describe similar issues.

greed and avarice, human nature, ignorance?
there are some extremely clever people doing everything they can to make people believe a certain way.

that people who live by their labor, would rabidly support the people who refuse to pay a decent wage for that labor is beyond belief.
mass hypnosis, or mass hysteria?
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"Propaganda…must always be essentially simple and repetitious. In the long run, only he will achieve basic results in influencing public opinion who is able to reduce problems to the simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them in this simplified form despite the objections of the intellectuals."
- Joseph Goebbels’ diary, 1/29/42
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