Tweety really just pissed me off!

Rep. Stephen Cohen said in a speech that, in so many words, that Jesus was a "Community Organizer". Tweety, whom I really never had a problem with, kept saying that Jesus was a carpenter. Now, I do not believe in comparing Obama to Jesus, but if you look at Jesus' body of work, what did he do? He helped those who had the least. In my eyes, pretty much what "Community Organizers" do. It really pisses me off to hear people belittling what people who go out and help out the forgotten people of less fortunate communities. Community Organizers do things that governors and mayors don't do. They make sure the grandmother that is surviving from check-to-check and make it to the grocery stores, there is neighborhood job training programs. The same programs that the Reagan administration shut down in my community.

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That's what I was taught...

chosen work was teacher, healer, preacher and reformer.

The definition of community organizer held by most Republicans today as political trouble maker who comes from outside the neighborhood and causes trouble among the lower classes actually fits what Jesus did very well. At least that's what the powers that be thought of him at the time.

...I do recall Jesus healing lepers, feeding the poor, raising the dead, etc. That wasn't carpentry work.

was an inspiration to many people. Matthews lost it on this one.

Jesus' stepdad was a carpenter. There is nothing in the Bible suggesting Jesus was a carpenter. His life from teens to 30 disappears and the adult part is purely his ministry.

Tweety is a Catholic boy...
Like me.

You mean to tell me he don't know that Joseph was the carpenter?

and they went about feeding the hungry and learning the how to live by "the master." Tweety, I think, likes to be a contrarian at times.

He is definitely not a fan of Sarah Pyscho.

Matthews had me yelling at the TV with that idiocy.

His father was (not God, the other guy). He might have worked in dad's shop as a kid, but he took off at some point and got into, er, community organizing.

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that he even existed as a historical figure (he may have) but who knows....the whole story has lots of mythology. Virgin birth all that good stuff....

How can anyone possibly feel confient enough to argue about Jesus's occupation?

or the step-son if you want to go that far


To my knowledge there is no reference to Jesus ever being a carpenter in his adult life. I know there is one story of him helping his father when he cut a board to short. Jesus then miraculously stretched the board so it was the correct length. As far as I know that is the closest he ever came to any form of woodworking, and I think he was 10 or 12 when it happened.



Jesus was not a carpenter. Tweety laid it out there to be picked up, and it just laid there.

woodworking done by Jesus that I know of.



I am not terribly impressed by the selection of stories that went into the bible while others were left out.

except for the fact that Joseph was one.

to some degree or another, certainly trained as such.

He was also a Rabbi and I think it's fair to say...A Community Organizer!
In fact, that was his life's work to a large degree.

I recon Chris cannot put on more than one hat...he is a talking head, another hat would intefere with his FUCKING MOUTH!

is a comeback to piss off fundies. Not meant to win votes. nothing more nothing less. Barack spent 3 years after college as a community organizer. It shows his commitment to service to people. His law degree, state senate career, and senate career, plus his overall intelligence is more important.

Jesus was the son of a carpenter. Jesus was a Rabbi. However much of his activities later in life could easily be described as being a community organizer. But his actual job title was Rabbi.

He might have done better not to cover that story.

Moron.