Jesus was a community organizer!

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Alice
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:32 PM

Today on Chris Matthews, he said that "community organizer" is a code to white people of "trouble maker". Racism is alive and well in the US.

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:30 PM

"...but he is NOT God, Jesus, Mary or all the archangels! "

Of course not! If he were, Sarah Palin & her preacher would have first hand knowledge and tell us!

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 06:00 PM

Have ALL of you lost your minds? Look, I 'like' Obama too, but he is NOT God, Jesus, Mary or all the archangels! You might stop acting like he is!


Sheesh.

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: DougR
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 05:15 PM

Mick: why isn't "freedom of choice" the real right to choose?

DougR (whose tongue is definitely not in his cheek)

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:31 PM

Isn't "community ortganizer" a code-word for "n****r-lover"? Or "commie"? That's my understanding of the way delegates in St. Paul reacted to several speakers' denigration of the term...

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:27 PM

Uh, Sorcha, the statement stands whether Q is tongue in cheek or not...... Uh.......

Mick

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:24 PM

Uh, Mick, I kinda think Q was 'tongue in cheek' there.....

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:22 PM

"This song was written in New York City
Of rich man, preacher, and slave
If Jesus was to preach what He preached in Galilee,
They would lay poor Jesus in His grave."

   - Woody Guthrie

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:17 PM

Hey Q, if my occupation as a union organizer is obsolete in western society, how come unions actually are getting more requests for organizing assistance than they have in years? Right wingers would love to believe that it is true we are disappearing, but our demise has been predicted many times before. Besides, when we knock off McCain/Barracuda, we are going to pass the Free Choice Act which restores the balance to the laws governing workers organizing unions. Once the sytem has the fairness restored, we will see how obsolete we are.

Mick

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:11 PM

A rabble rouser. Could have been reincarnated as a union organizer. Formerly a valid endeavor, but obsolete in our current western society.
My sympathies are with Pilate, who was merely doing his job as an administrator.

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:06 PM

He must've also been a Democrat!:-)

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:04 PM

Can you 'go on' and move the thread to the bottom?

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:00 PM

I absolutely love the potential of this thread!!!!

I am a Christian, and it is my belief that most of the folks that wear a WWJD bracelet, and profess their absolute devotion to Jesus the Christ, would not be very happy with him if he were walking the streets and commenting on current events. My guess is they would crucify him all over again. Actually, in a metaphorical way, they are re-crucifying him every time they use his life and lessons as justification for the actions they take. Were the Christ walking today, he would be attacking those in Washington who call themselves Christians, he would be preaching reconcilliation with all peoples, he would decry the devastation of the environment, he would be advocating for assisting the least among us, and asking those with the most to give up those assets that they have no need for.

I could go on and on.............

Mick

Subject: RE: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: bobad
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:58 PM

Zing!

Subject: Jesus was a community organizer!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 03:49 PM

...and Pilate weas a governer!!

This came to me via Paul Stamler in St. Louis.

Art Thieme