— Musings —12.17.2024 12:30 PM
Merry Christmas
I’m a bit bored, so to stir things up, I would like to remind everybody that Jesus was Jewish, almost certainly dark-skinned, spent several years living with a group of single men, and would have voted for a social democratic party if given the choice.
Not all the apostles were single. St. Peter was married; there are references in the gospels to his mother-in-law. I do agree that Jesus would likely favour social democratic policies.
Merry Christmas to you.
Jesus was surprisingly apolitical. We likely don’t know how he would have voted since he drew people from diverse political, philosophical, and religious viewpoints.
Israel’s ruling clerocracy and Pontius Pilate did not think Jesus was apolitical. His followers have always been activists.
ATW with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn (episode 12/16/24) is the best coverage of the farcical going-ons with our current PM right now. It speaks volumes about our media that two Americans are covering this whole episode much better and more thoroughly than anybody in Canada.
True, Christ was a pinko.
Sure, but not everything about Jesus would sit well with social democrats.
For starters, he would have been decidedly pro-life, not pro-choice, so he would have been against abortion.
He may have been compassionate towards gay people but he would have still considered homosexuality a sin. And gay marriage would not have been something he would have supported.
Have a direct pipeline to Jesus, do you?
I think another version of what you say is a valuable lesson in a broader context.
Jesus would have been a social democrat in his time. Within the “norms” at that time. As you point out, abortion and homosexuality were distinctly not even on the radar as acceptable, at that time.
This should inform our modern proclivity to cast judgement on historical people and events, based on our modern sensitivities.
Some things have been timelessly unacceptable, but other things are simply our current framework of “acceptability”. Yet it now seems trendy to look back and judge historical people and events through our modern set of values. It’s silly, but there are people who owe their entire living to doing this, so they are quite happy to waste time on this nonsense so long as we encourage them.
I think that stuff has been grafted on to Christianity and I’m not aware of any evidence to support it.
Jesus was a social conservative. Few on the left are. Maybe his economic views would have been to the left, but many on the left are now elites.