Jesus was a swarthy middle-eastern. Jesus was not a white European and if he were to return today, a brown-skinned foreigner preaching love and peace and healing people and rich people should give all their money to the poor, it would be the religious conservatives — evangelical protestant, conservative Catholic, Mormon — who would be fighting over who gets to crucify him this time.
When Jesus came the first time, it was the established religious orthodoxy (the Jewish Sanhedrin), working in concert with the government (Roman governor Pontius Pilate) that had Jesus LEGALLY convicted and executed in state-sponsored terrorist murder.
Today it is the religious conservatives who try to mix church and state, contrary to Jesus’ teachings, in a way that Jesus would have found abysmally corrupt and perverse.
Jesus was a swarthy middle-eastern. Jesus was not a white European and if he were to return today, a brown-skinned foreigner preaching love and peace and healing people and rich people should give all their money to the poor, it would be the religious conservatives — evangelical protestant, conservative Catholic, Mormon — who would be fighting over who gets to crucify him this time.
When Jesus came the first time, it was the established religious orthodoxy (the Jewish Sanhedrin), working in concert with the government (Roman governor Pontius Pilate) that had Jesus LEGALLY convicted and executed in state-sponsored terrorist murder.
Today it is the religious conservatives who try to mix church and state, contrary to Jesus’ teachings, in a way that Jesus would have found abysmally corrupt and perverse.