| meep ( @ 2008-09-15 04:24:00 |
Annoyed
Okay, I'm officially sick of the "Jesus was a community organizer" line. No, he was not. Not like a modern community organizer.
The whole point of the modern position of "community organizer" is to organize people to demand services from the government....maybe from private actors as well (say, organizing to force a slumlord to fix apartments by removing asbestos), but mainly to get particular groups of people to say "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
I get the feeling that most of the people parroting the line are not Christian. This is not a slam on them, mind you, but a realization that any Christian should know some of the "greatest hits" sayings of Jesus, such as "Go and sin no more" and the Pater Noster and.... "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, render unto God what is God's." The entirety of Jesus's mission was non-political. In the Gospels, I remember plenty of rebuking of the religious authorities, but nothing said about the Romans (or their local lackeys, who may not officially have been Roman citizens). If he said something specifically about government other than the "Render unto Caesar" line, I'd love to hear it.
He certainly did not bring people together with "Verily, I say unto you, you deserve a job center, and let's go talk to Pilate about it."
Okay, I'm officially sick of the "Jesus was a community organizer" line. No, he was not. Not like a modern community organizer.
The whole point of the modern position of "community organizer" is to organize people to demand services from the government....maybe from private actors as well (say, organizing to force a slumlord to fix apartments by removing asbestos), but mainly to get particular groups of people to say "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
I get the feeling that most of the people parroting the line are not Christian. This is not a slam on them, mind you, but a realization that any Christian should know some of the "greatest hits" sayings of Jesus, such as "Go and sin no more" and the Pater Noster and.... "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, render unto God what is God's." The entirety of Jesus's mission was non-political. In the Gospels, I remember plenty of rebuking of the religious authorities, but nothing said about the Romans (or their local lackeys, who may not officially have been Roman citizens). If he said something specifically about government other than the "Render unto Caesar" line, I'd love to hear it.
He certainly did not bring people together with "Verily, I say unto you, you deserve a job center, and let's go talk to Pilate about it."