broad minded: What WOULD Jesus Do?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

What WOULD Jesus Do?

I saw this on my way back from lunch today:

This is why we need separation of church and state people.

3 comments:

creative kerfuffle said...: ok, i can't read the bumper sticker. what does it say???; June 12, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Rev Wes Isley said...: I had to pull the image to my desktop but it reads: "Jesus for Governor."

If Jesus was indeed elected NC governor, I don't know that the allegedly conservative Christian driving this car would be all that pleased. First, I think Jesus would forgive all criminals and outlaw the death penalty. He would most likely declare everyone in NC a resident of "God's kingdom on earth" and so why do we need boundaries--ergo, all immigrants would become residents. Conservatives would cry "amnesty!" and "soft on crime!"

Given Jesus' concern for the poor, he would probably tax the "hell" out of corporations and rich folks (accompanied by a tract on something about the difficulty of passing through the eye of a needle) and expand entitlement programs for the lame, widows, orphans and lepers.

Jesus would probably get preachy, especially to the Christians--something about plucking out the mote in your own eye first--who would react by elevating arguments over the Eucharist and baptism to state legislative showdowns.

And NC's population would skyrocket after Jesus healed everyone and raised all the dead. Which would require new roads and more services and higher taxes. So, what WOULD Jesus do?; June 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM
broad minded said...: NICE Wes, very nice!; June 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM

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