File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2001/anarchy-list.0109, message 102


Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:19:12 -0600
Subject: What would Jesus do?
From: Michael Lewis <mlewis-AT-unm.edu>


    The current administration of the United States government professes to
be a Christian administration, holding prayer meetings in the White House,
promoting "faith-based" social support systems, vying with TeeVee
evangelists for the hearts, minds, and pocketbooks of the American people.

    Let's ask our leaders a simple question in reference to the terror and
destruction of September 11:

    What would Jesus do?

    If Jesus were in the White House today, what would He do? Would He
relentlessly hunt down the organizers and perpetrators of this evil deed and
put them to the sword? Would He bomb their cities back to the Stone Age and
subject innocent children, parents and grandparents to continuing torture,
disease and death by destroying their water supplies, medical clinics and
social infrastructure?

    If Jesus were in the White House today, would He support a country that
attacks innocent women and children, destroys their homes and drags off
their men to torture and death? Would He order thousands of men to be buried
alive under desert sands? Would He encourage an economic system that
promotes hunger and privation for thousands while the few bask in luxury and
unearned privilege?

    If Jesus is the model held up as an example by our Founding Fathers,
supported by words and overt actions by our own leaders today, shouldn't we
expect our leaders to live up to this example as well?

    What would Jesus do?

    Michael


   

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