HuffPo: 'Jesus Was A Radical Nonviolent Revolutionary' Post By John Fugelsang Is Spot On

[highplainsdem]

Found this Huffington Post piece

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/28/jesus-radical-nonviolent_n_4512335.html

Actor and comedian John Fugelsang gives us his take on Jesus in just one sentence, and it's pretty incredible.

via a tweet from John Fugelsang this morning:

https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/417310572061790209

John FugelsangVerified account ?@JohnFugelsang

One of our magnets went viral and made Huffington Post - http://huff.to/1dfLY48 via @HuffPostRelig pic.twitter.com/2tGH81itkW

9:06 AM - 29 Dec 13

Large photo here:

https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/417310572061790209/photo/1/large


The text there -- and I agree with HuffPo that it's "spot on" and "pretty incredible":

Jesus was a radical nonviolent revolutionary who hung around with lepers hookers and crooks; wasn't American and never spoke English; was anti-wealth anti-death penalty anti-public prayer (M 6:5); but was never anti-gay, never mentioned abortion or birth control, never called the poor lazy, never justified torture, never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes, never asked a leper for a copay; and was a long-haired brown-skinned homeless community-organizing anti-slut-shaming Middle Eastern Jew. - John Fugelsang

[Prophet 451]

1. Pretty much overs it

But watch all the people who claim to be Biblical literalists suddenly start parsing words in pseudo-pious legalism to avoid having to, say, pay taxes to support the poor.

[Anniee]

2. Hi

Hi, I'm brand new here, I tried to introduce myself, but it said that I hadn't posted enough yet to start a new thread.

Anyway, I'm a Christian libertarian light so to speak. I found this post of yours very interesting in light of the fact that it's so true! Jesus loved sinners, after all that's who He came for as He said.

I have been disenchanted by so many who attempt to justify hatred of others because of their sin or lifestyles. There are so many hateful Christians today that it saddens me to see the body of Christ be so misrepresented by ignorant people who want to call themselves "Christians".

Thank you for sharing this.

[gopiscrap]

5. welcome to DU

[arikara]

6. Welcome to DU

[canoeist52]

3. Although I believe Stephen Stills said it in the 60's.

"And I don't know if I want white America to remember or to forget
That Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary"

http://www.metrolyrics.com/49-byebyesamericas-children-lyrics-crosby-stills-nash.html

[cali]

4. Jesus is a rorschach blot

and may well have been a figment of several imaginations

[arikara]

7. My knowledge of the bible isn't vast

but I think the only time Jesus displayed enough agitation to be classed as violence was when he tossed the money changers tables around. And of course that's the group that these despicable ones love and protect.

[Alkene]

8. How do we know he had long hair?

j/k, I know that isn't really the point.

[Cha]

9. And, from what I've heard.. He says in the Bible that

there will be those who use his name falsely.

Ain't that the truth.

thanks highplainsdem