If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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Hmm, judging from comments here the metaphor is lost. Whether back handed or repeating what Ds expressed during the election post mortem, perhaps we're still unable to sit with strategies and weigh our likelihood to produce winning platforms for candidates to run on, that have mass appeal?
"And He would have killed it at kitchen table issues. I mean, bread, fish, and wine outta nowhere for free. Seriously, the biggest whiff in world political history."
Jesus called the prostitutes and tax collectors “sick” and in need of a doctor. He wasn’t the kind of
modern progressive advocate for the marginalised the way you want him to be. He saw the outcasts as greater sinners who needed help to repent.
HE spent no time advocating for gays. HE was very critical of the rulers to the point they killed him despite HE and his followers killing no one. HE said to help the poor Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton helped themselves. HE said he would rule with a iron rod not palm
leaves.
And he might have won the support of the Pharisees, not been executed and built a multi-billion shekel healthcare empire raising people from the dead - for the right price, of course.
If Jesus had just recognized unreasoning hate and bigotry as cathartic, and soft-peddled the 'love one another' stuff for the short term, he might have made it to his birthday with solid polling.
I believe this is sarcastically putting down the theory that the modern leftist movement should focus less on identity politics and more on policies that help the broader working class population in an attempt to win more votes from the part of that demographic that is more socially conservative
I hear that Judas Iscariot has a book coming out in time for the Saturnalia holiday season. Going to be wild. Gets his rocks off by drying his feet using prostitutes hair, apparently!!! Freak.
Of course, the Samaritans are trying to get Judas cancelled. And everybody knows they control the scroll publishing industry. They went woke ever since Jesus started pushing his wacko conspiracy theories about there being "good" Samaritans.
As the son of a carpenter/builder & one himself, he spoke all the time about “kitchen table” issues.
The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. — Matthew 9:37–38
If you say so. I find it hilariously on point. The only people imo who need to find truth in Jesus are the ones who use his name to distort his teaching, and they never will.
If only Jesus had allowed a Palestinian to speak at the convention, he would have won over uncommitted voters and college kids in Michigan and Wisconsin and been elected Messiah in a landslide. There’s no way they would’ve moved the goalposts again after a getting a speaking slot at the convention.
He was angry they we dealing money in the temple. Then they lynched him and let Barrabas go. Barabbas was a real villain and despot. Mobs 2000 years ago. It’s all Still weirdly similar. We never learn. .
Barabbas never held power, and I'm not personally keen on labeling a rebel against Rome a "villain" just because he's associated with the death of Jesus
The crowd chose Barabbas, reflecting their preference for violence and rebellion over Jesus's message of peace and non-violence. Maybe instead of villain. I could have said murderer. Next time I will.
In context though, in terms of violence, it's 6 or half-dozen -- Jesus' following was on a collision course with Rome never wanting a 120k+ uprising of the servile population again. It's why so many apostles, who we'd call lieutenants in any other setting, were executed while continuing teaching.
Yep. It's fascinating how the New Testament is often not parsed into history:
The context of Barabbas & Jesus as political prisoners around 30AD is the Third Servile War (aka Gladiator/Spartacus War) 71-73 BC, J. Caesar killed 85 BC, and a Rome aware of instability + VERY fearful of mass uprising.
You mean the brown Jesus who relied on the goodness of people for a place to sleep and food to eat? Because he owned no property/home and had no money/job? And who said to "love thy neighbour"
Are you loving your neighbours right now? Even the ones who aren't MAGA like you???
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It’s the language, not the message that’s the problem. Jesus wouldn’t single out the lepers and prostitutes for this or that consideration. He preached love for everybody and showed love to everybody including the lepers and prostitutes. He didn’t start by making anyone feel excluded.
There were Europeans in Judea, both Greek and Roman. They were as trivial a minority there as the much-ballyhooed rural white working class men are now.
Jesus tells religious leaders they are being hypocritical, that prostitutes and tax collectors are entering God’s kingdom before them, because they more often genuinely followed the word of God and believed, repented. ✨
I get it, but let's face it the Dems ain't Jesus. And if they had taken their opportunities to increase the minimum wage, properly tax the rich, reverse Citizens United, and/or set a course for universal healthcare, they wouldn't be seen as full of shit by half of Americans.
But as always is was the rich, privileged, collaborating, and domineering classes, Roman and Jewish who could not allow his message of diversity, equality, and inclusion to be heard.
if amerikKKa had focused more on people like us instead of being attracted to bigotry, hate, transphobia, homophobia, became infected with a massive desire to harm people, i'd be waving that flag today instead of wanting to burn more.
Obv it’s the duty of the sick and choice deprived to not be sick and have no other choices so they don’t drain support away from others because that’s the Christianity maga class have been sold by felons and anti democratic facists….
If Jesus was more like Christ, and really drove home the importance of hate, the Christian god wouldn’t have had to murder him for sharing the truth about love and the uselessness of religion
For one thing, it's wildly unfair to millions beforehand who had to work hard for their loaves and fishesand and would sooner go hungry than accept a handout.
If any of these people really believe they’re going to heaven, they missed the part about “love your neighbor as yourself” being one of the two requirements.
Is this the witty AI NYT bot I've heard about
not very
Judea's were not looking for more kitchen table issues
They were looking for the Second Coming of King David who was going to sweep the Romans out of Israel/Judea using their heads as brooms
NYT has just gotten more and more ignorant
...and the original followers of Jesus were Judeans, until Saul of Tarsus, aka Paul (obviously an ancestor of Steven Miller), commandeered the movement, spun the message and demonized the original followers. Ironically, the seat of christianity was ultimately relocated to the Roman seat of power.
History is replete with usurpations of movements, both political and religious. Christianity is different. Stir up the followers, whip them into a frenzy and then employ them to accomplish your goals. Power is the ultimate narcotic.
No doubt Donold "Raping Felon" Trump, fElon "Moobs" Musk, the Nazi GOP & all the high ranking maggots in Nazimerikka will be celebrating Hitler's birthday tonight with a lavish dinner and cocktails at Mardy-Lardo. Apart from the voting maggots of course they'll just have ketchup and cheap moonshine!
It wasn't called Palestine until later, after the Romans booted the Jews (Judeans) following the Bar-Kochba revolt. They named it after the Philistines, whom they moved in. You're probably right otherwise.
Just outside this old gate to enter Jerusalem, every Friday was the same: Gather water at the well. Tend to the flocks. Render Unto Caesar. But all that changed when a man from Galilee arrived on a donkey
the story of the prostitute getting stoned was a fabrication from the fourth or fifth centuries, intended as a slur on the jewish peple by a turkish scribe
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In this small town temple, the hard working merchants care about three things: selling religious objects, doves for sacrifice, and money exchange. But now one out of town liberal wants to take all of that away
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modern progressive advocate for the marginalised the way you want him to be. He saw the outcasts as greater sinners who needed help to repent.
The crowd chose to free the robber Barabbas over Jesus.
Its about winning next election not being worshipped as a saint a few cinturies down the road
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leaves.
Loaves AND fishes?! Pick a lane.
His parables are replete with working class characters.
He also served the marginalized - “the least of these”.
The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. — Matthew 9:37–38
Let’s not create our own Jesus.
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Jesus speaks for himself.
And we’re not listening to the working class - “red, and yellow, black and white,
they are precious in his sight”
Yeah, ftr … I’m a leftist, too.
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The context of Barabbas & Jesus as political prisoners around 30AD is the Third Servile War (aka Gladiator/Spartacus War) 71-73 BC, J. Caesar killed 85 BC, and a Rome aware of instability + VERY fearful of mass uprising.
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That book is already boring enough...
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And I appreciate the sensitivity, especially as Israeli Jews are falsely portrayed as European colonizers.
There were Europeans in Judea, both Greek and Roman. They were as trivial a minority there as the much-ballyhooed rural white working class men are now.
Matthew 21:31 — Jesus says:
“Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.”
Context below 👇🏻
Jesus is love/life
Christ is fear/death
Evil conflates them.
Don’t do that. Love doesn’t.
#sandalstraps
Plus, Mary’s “he has filled the rich with good things and the hungry he has sent empty away.”
not very
Judea's were not looking for more kitchen table issues
They were looking for the Second Coming of King David who was going to sweep the Romans out of Israel/Judea using their heads as brooms
NYT has just gotten more and more ignorant
There were no “white” working class Judeans. The white ones didn’t come along until the Crusades.
Jesus would actually hate literally everything happening in his name these days, so 🤷🏽♀️
If only he'd impose tariffs on imports of foreign trees.
My favorite clip is them all sitting down to debate what they should do as Brian is about to be crucified.
Everyone here talking, talking, talking, while democracy is on its way to being annihilated.
so funny.
Everyone did it..
…people are saying….
or it may be the lord
but you got to server somebody
(Bob Dylan)