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JESUS SHUNNED POLITICS.
If you think our politics are complicated, take a look at the time in which Jesus lived. The Romans had been occupying and oppressing his home country for about a century. Some groups tried to appease them, others coexisted, and still others fought back. Among his disciples, Jesus had at least one rebel (Simon the Zealot), and Judas Iscariot’s last name might indicate a connection to the Sicari, who were hardcore Jewish freedom fighters.
People flocked to hear Jesus, but he generally avoided political messagingbut he did talk about the kingdom of God. Some people would definitely see that as a return to Jewish independence, with a God-ordained king in charge. According to one Gospel, after Jesus miraculously fed a crowd of more than 5,000, the people surrounded him, intending to make him a king, but Jesus walked away. As he explained later to Pontius Pilate, My kingdom is not of this world.
Sounds like a politician to me.
Phat writes:
And when Jesus killed the pigs, he evidently cared nothing for the livlihood of some of the people.
I don't know why you obsess about the owners of the pigs. It's a story. Whatever happened before or after the story is beside the point. Does it matter who Little Red Riding Hood married?
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