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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:33 PM
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Bushies own Jesus.
Edited on Sun Oct-10-04 10:37 PM by patrice
We had counter-demonstrators down at Nichols’ fountain this afternoon.

4 or 5 Squeaky clean young adults carrying commercially made signs saying “Hate Terrorism – Not Bush” and “Bush in 2004” (although that one wasn’t commercially made). They refused my flyer for Eyes Wide Open, which is at the public library this week, even though I told them it is for the community to honor the dead American soldiers, so I asked them if they were planning on enlisting or volunteering, because I can honor what they say they value in this war if they enlist, if they show commitment. Apparently the answer was no because they started in on Kerry for voting against the $87 million. They said the lives of the soldiers should be so important that nothing should be more important than funding them. I pointed out that Republicans and the president rejected an $87 million funding bill because it came out of the tax cuts, so why doesn’t that principle apply to them also? No answer.

I also got to explain to these folks how terrorist are more interested in striking the powers-that-be in the MidEast through Bush, the royal business partner, than they would be with Kerry.

When we got to my personal motives for being there with my signs, I started to say that those who are crushed by the mighty, especially the innocent who are killed and maimed, are Jesus, literally Jesus. This is the model we see in the life of Christ, why Jesus suffered, what he was trying to show us. One young Bushie interrupted me, he was wearing a Jesus t-shirt; he said, “How dare you bring Jesus into this . . . . Jesus doesn’t have anything to do with terrorists .. . .” and some other stuff. I was so shocked, I asked him if he owns Jesus.

And the rest of the afternoon, I held forth in my loud street voice, reminding these young men to enlist or volunteer now, and also saying that those who are crushed by the mighty, innocents killed in the WTC and in Iraq right now, are Jesus today. Many people in cars waiting for the light, nodded and smiled. Oh BTW, my sign today said “Who died and made George “god”? = Blasphemy”.

The Bush supporter in the Jesus t-shirt mocked me when I said these things in my big street voice; he went “Kaw, kaw, kaw” like a bird several times. When he and his friend left they drove by me, mocking again, and I could see that the back of their car was plastered with Kobach stickers.

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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 11:12 PM
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1. I seriously doubt that Jesus would really want too much to do with
these people. They've twisted and perverted everything he tried to teach us about human kindness, decency, love and care of the weak the aged and the young, forgiveness, redemption, and not to judge lest ye be judged.

Jesus in know way resembles these people or their actions.

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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 11:22 PM
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2. I'm sorry....
.....you had to go through that but it is understandable.....God is an American and Jesus is a Republican.....everything else is Satanic.... :)
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KellyPaDem Donating Member (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 12:25 AM
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3. I didn't know he was for sale
Damn I'm sure if someone had told the Democrats we could have gotten a collection together and gone on Ebay and purchased Jesus for us.
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