If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him

Excellent piece, I'll let it speak for itself:

Harvey Wasserman

If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him
March 21, 2005

As we enter another Easter Season, it's become all too obvious that if Christ returns, those who hate in Jesus's name will have him slimed, then killed.

Christ was a long-haired peace activist who would have hated the war in Iraq. "Blessed are the peacemakers" Jesus said in his defining Sermon on the Mount. "Turn the other cheek...Love thy neighbor."

Such hippie-radical ideals are the "Christian" right wing's worst nightmare. The GOP would never tolerate an upstart like Jesus gathering a following in the face of their corporate-fundamentalist crusade. These are Christians who love power but would despise the actual Christ, just as they love a Zionist Israel but can't tolerate actual Jews.

In the wake of Jesus's exemplary life of non-violent rebellion, a perverse liturgy weighted by twenty centuries of intolerant bloodthirsty bigotry has erupted in his name. Attacks on people of color, on nations with oil, on humans of the same gender who love each other, on youth who enjoy sex….all have become enemies of a new fundamentalist crusade doing in Christ's name things that would have left him sickened and horrified.
Continued: http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2005/1096


http://www.kliljedahl.net

on spriituality in general had a very interesting observation.

If either Jesus or Buddha returned to earth today, they would be equally shocked to find that THEY were being worshiped.

We're missing the point of the teachings......big time....

If Jesus came back he would throw up at the things being done in his name.

...fought to save slavery, resisted segregation...

When have conservatives EVER been on the "right side" of history?

we're fighting to evolve away from the neanderthals - and they don't like it.