Jesus Was Not A Liberal

Today on the Stephanie Miller program they showed a rerun of a segment where this book author comes on and says that Christians aren't being true to their Founder. Well I hate to break the news to you but the Jesus portrayed in the Bible was far from being a liberal. In the first place he said that divorce was wrong in any case except adultry. Also if you married a divorced woman you both were comitting adultry. The idea of his being sympathetic to homosexual marriage is out of the question. He likened marriage back to Genisis and Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve. On the matter of abortion we have more hope for you liberals out there because Jesus does imply that life begins at birth. And all through the New Testament you have the implication that Life is like a Seed coming to full germanation in Heaven, and that a better Greek translation according to some is that you are "being Born Again" like Dylan says "He who is not busy being Born is busy Dying" Capish? As such I have charged people like Bill Halliday of being a "Spiritual Abortionist" because he aborts would be Christians from their set paths. We could go back to Rush Limbaugh's "Phone call abortion" thing if we want to. Certainly scripture is replete with scriptures like "Hold fast and let no man take thy Crown". Jesus referred to Baptisum as birth with such lines as "You must be Born Again by Water and the Spirit", alluding to baptism. However Jesus when given every oppertunity, like Obama, comes down on the side of the Status Quo every time he has the choice. He honors the Romans in saying that you owe Ceasar your money. Paul says that laws (of Rome) are not for "good people" to fear and adds "They do not carry the sword in vain". Jesus goes further to say that not one jot or tiddle will pass from the Law till "all is accomplished", which I like Chuck Smith infer to be the Second Coming. But this is the Jesus portrayed in the Bible.

However you can clearly "sort out" the Four Messiahs of the Bible and trace the order in which they were added or layered on. Luke was the last to "layer on" the assencion into heaven forty days after death, like Apolonius. These late layerings can bee seen in, for instance, the sole seeming reference to the Trinity in the whole Bible (at the end of Matthew), and references to Jesus having natural brothers and naming them, and also the city of Nazareth itself. But stripping these away, as one should the Christmas Story, which is the story of Mithras, you are left what portrates of two distinct people, and I'll explain. One was of a healing messiah who lived in the north. This messiah was very adept at dealing with demons and had a strong belief in them, and believed that demons came in a whole variety of forms, such as demons of deafness or blindness, or other things. There is another tradition you might call the southern tradition. Here is where you see a Jesus who was combative with pharicees and in John when Jesus refers to the pharicees as Satan, he does not seek to "exorcise" them, as the northern Jesus would have. It says in JC Superstar "A trick or two with leppers and the whole town's on its feet". I don't see healings during "Passion Week". As James Madison would put it "I fail to lay my finger on that portion of scripture". Did you ever wonder what happened to Jesus powers that final week? They even died and worked at different times. The northern Jesus had one year around 35 AD or the year of jubilee. The southern Jesus escaped crusifiction on November 24th of AD 29 during a solar eclipse. The upside down cross like the upside flag is used as a sign of distress. The upside down cross is the cross of Rome, where beliefs of the southern Jesus centered. This southern Jesus was more of a teaching messiah rather than a healing messiah. The "sayings of Jesus" document has no meracles in it, someone pointed out. It was probably an early date when the northern and southern Jesuses merged into one. But like Strawberry Fields Forever, if you read the book of Mark, the "bifercation" can be fairly readily picked up.

Rush Limbaugh had chest pains while on vacation in Hawaii. Someone said he was vacationing close to where President Obama is. Rush is said to be "resting comfortably" now. I would not definitely count this is the last "incident" Rush will have. Like earthquakes, sometimes minor attacks are preludes to major, fatal attacks, often in people like Rush who have this cavilier attitudes about their health and thinks they are "too important" to get sick.

By now you've heard of how a trusted Al Qaeda opperative got past CIA check points and walked into their inner sanctum, and detonated a suicide bomb killing many. I find it ironic that I invoked "God's speed" on President Obama and talked about "infiltration of the enemy" in my last posting, and now this happens. This only goes to show that Satan is several steps ahead of me, and why taking him on isn't smart. I really thought sending up a little prayer for our President might be a good thing. We all will have to get used to these full body nude scanners at airports, it seems. Thom Hartman says that personally he doesn't want to be exposed to the radiation. For frequent business travelers, this to me seems a potential problem. It's a temptation, honestly, to relent and say "perhaps racial profiling isn't really such a bad thing if it saves the rest of us inconvenience". Of course if the explosives were in a body cavity, even these scanners would be useless. Sometimes I think Al Qaeda is really stupid, like those tapes they used to send us indicating profound ignorance of American culture. Then they go and pull off something like happened today, causing me to re-think. Thom Hartman and others say the best recruiting of Al Qaeda is facilitated by us and our often rabidly anti Islamic positions and this idea that we are in some kind of Holy Crusade against these people. If you believe that a whole religion is filled with "killing machines" just waiting for orders, this doesn't make for very healthy relations, and one longs for the days of "Detante".