[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL- Is Obama even eligible to serve as POTUS?

[Herb Parsons]

John, I may be being dense, but I don't understand the question.

Reality is, I think if Christ came here and now, he'd be persecuted for 
his ideas, but not prosecuted. Not until he cost someone who had the 
power to execute him big money. Then, history would repeat itself.

If he affected multiple parties, it would be bi (or even tri, quad, etc, 
there ae others besides the gubment that could be affected) partisan.

However, Christ never advocated changing the law to take from one group 
and give to another. As a matter of fact, he said that following the law 
wasn't the point, it was an inner change that's needed.

Obama (and others) are not advocating that people make a personal change 
within, and decide to give to others, he's advocating forcing them to do 
so at the point of a gun. That was never Christ's plan.



John Shulick wrote:
> hparsons wrote:
>    
>  "I suspect if Jesus the Jew went around telling people about his 
>  revolutionary ideas, especially those that threatened the pockets of the 
>  leaders, he'd probably be publicly executed."
>
> I believe you wrote this in the present tense implying the event happening
> in the present.
>
> I asked Do you think it would be a bipartisan effort or would one side
> attempt to
>  gain credit for stopping such a threat to our way of life?
>
> Could you please rephrase your reply to allow for this? I'm more concerned
> how you would reply in
> the here and now considering how subversive the thought of "share your
> wealth" is today.
> Scandalous! Shocking! Crucify Him! Crucify Him!
>
>
> hparsons wrote:
>   
>> Last time it happened, no one seemed to want to take credit for it, but 
>> it was definitely a bipartisan effort.
>>
>> The Jews had no law allowing Christ to be killed for what he had done, 
>> so it had to be the Romans. Pilate tried passing it off to Herod, who 
>> just wanted to see parlor tricks. Pilate got the issue back, and "left 
>> the decision" to the Jews, thinking they'd pick a cold blooded killer to 
>> die instead of Jesus. But, that's not what the crowd did, so Pilate 
>> blamed it on the Jews.
>>
>> Truth be told, I personally believe it was the Jewish leaders. When 
>> Christ cleared the temple, he wasn't chasing people out because they 
>> were buying and selling, he was chasing people out because they were 
>> cheating others. Charging usery prices for changing money into a 
>> denomination "acceptable" to the church of the day, and selling only 
>> "approved" animals for sacrifice (which were in fact, often unclean, but 
>> still "blessed" by the temple leaders). All of this was done for a fee 
>> to the temple leaders.
>>
>> Disrupting their cash flow was a problem, and thus the Man finally had 
>> to be dealt with.
>>
>> But, everyone wanted to blame someone else.
>>
>> Judas wasn't around anymore, so most of us blame him.
>>
>>     
>>>> John Shulick wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Brad,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jesus the Jew was the author of the thought  "share your wealth" he did
>>>>> not
>>>>> imply the threat of violence but rather the threat of eternal
>>>>> damnation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jesus the Jew wouldn't have a snowballs' chance in hell of being
>>>>> elected
>>>>> to
>>>>> any office in this country.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only reference I have heard about any Jesus running for office have
>>>>> been
>>>>> in your posts.
>>>>>
>>>>> John Shulick
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What office is Jesus running for?  Are we talking about Jesus the Jew
>>>>>> or Black Liberation Theology's African Jesus? I'll be the first to
>>>>>> admit that I haven't studied the New Testament in a long time but I
>>>>>> believe the idea was to share "your wealth" not allow it to be taken
>>>>>> by threat of violence and re-distributed. But then again, I could be
>>>>>> wrong and Jesus is running for office.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SP37Rjq5BYI/AAAAAAAAWiw/v63QML8-XOI/s1600-h/kos+christ.JPG
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tell me these folks aren't a little creepy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brad
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, John Shulick <jsbudda at verizon.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Tax policy?  What's left to discuss?  "Share the wealth", that about
>>>>>>> sums it up, straight from Marx and Mao.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually I believe the term "Share the wealth" began with Jesus but
>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>> was a commie pinko socialist scumbag too.
>>>>>>> --
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