Jesus Teaching

Quote of the Week:

If Democrats are Pharisees, does that make Republicans Sadducees?

"It's a little bit like biblical Pharisees, you know, who basically are always trying to undermine Jesus Christ.... You know, it goes on the same way. If they can catch him in something, they can then criticize and the outside groups will go berserk."

- Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), on Fox News, describing the nature of potential Democratic opposition to Supreme Court nominee Judge John G. Roberts Jr

Comments

[Adam Kotsko]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- someone needs to start a charity devoted to putting Republicans through Jungian analysis to get this projection thing cleared up.

[Alain]

Agreed. I just do not understand why any political disagreement is turned into an attack on someone's religion. Hatch speaks for many in the United States who feel that Christians are persecuted.

[Jodi]

actually, couldn't one say that Jesus and his followers were terrorists? And, then the question becomes whether Christian fundamentalists in the US are basically enacting a kind of terror or are they violating the authentic ethical terror of the Christian message? (Adam Kotsko is likely someone to read/consult with on this question.)

[Alain]

Jodi

The recent Harper's has a good article written by an environmental writter who describes himself as a christian. His claim is simply that the religious right is not Christian at all, that they have completely ignored the radical teaching of Jesus and turned him into a self-help, new age preacher.

[Hugh]

My vote for New Testament terrorist goes to St. Paul.

Which is not to say that if George Bush at el. had been in charge of Palestine c. 30 CE, they wouldn't have called Jesus a terrorist.