Render to Caesar, Extraordinarily

[marmar]

from Consortium News:


Render to Caesar, Extraordinarily
April 6, 2012

Exclusive: On Good Friday, Christians observe the brutal torture and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of Roman occupiers, but many modern Christians don’t mind when it is “their” side doing the rendering of alleged subversives to be tortured and sometimes killed, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes.

By Ray McGovern


Some of us pause on Good Friday to mark the torture and death of a high-value detainee rendered, extraordinarily, to Roman occupiers.

Although the charges against Jesus of Nazareth were trumped up, the Romans decided to err on the safe side by going to the “dark side.” They applied enhanced torture techniques with the ultimate hanging.

I try my best to follow the example set by that fellow from Nazareth. I do get beat up on occasion for “knowing where I stand and standing there,” as Dan Berrigan has told us. But I don’t expect to be tortured — much less hung up to die. Those things just happen to folks who don’t look like me.

In my worst nightmares I never dreamed that my country of birth, the country I love, would resort to torturing prisoners. Still less, did I expect my alma mater, Fordham University, to honor a person known to have championed kidnapping and torture (as well as illegal eavesdropping on Americans), by inviting him to give the commencement address. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2012/04/06/render-to-caesar-extraordinarily/

[xchrom]

1. loving others as we christians are commanded and the crusifiction

are things we{christians} don't contemplate enough.

[Igel]

2. Strange argument.`

"... the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion...."

The argument has to be that in a democracy, if the majority of the population because it's Xian or for whatever reason upholds these values then the government should as well.

Then again, that ignores the entire "the population is too stupid to be trusted" argument we sometimes hear.

Rhetoric =/= logic, of course. I prefer the latter.