How many hospitals would Jesus close? (Freeper op-ed)

Freeport Ink (Freeport, IL) | 30 Nov 06 | Me

[Mr. Silverback]

The WWJD phrase is, of course, taken from the classic Christian novel In His Steps. I find it telling that even though the author, Charles M. Sheldon, was a major figure in the social gospel movement and could be called a Christian socialist, his book doesn't portray anyone running out and forcing people to help the poor through government. Instead, he portrays people taking sacrificial action in their own lives. Here's what Chuck Colson wrote about it a few years ago:

The editor of the local newspaper has been accepting lucrative ads from the local saloons. Would Jesus do this? No, he decides--and cancels the ads.

A young singer gives up a promising career on the stage to sing at tent meetings on Skid Row. A young heiress takes in a homeless woman, to the horror of her fashionable family. A businessman decides that Jesus wants him to make his tenements as warm and comfortable as his own home.

Maybe the churchcommies could take a lesson...

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[Lijahsbubbe]

wonder why the Left doesn’t apply the WWJD principle to other problems. How many of those asking “Who would Jesus kill” have ever asked, “Who would Jesus abort?” One might also ask, “How many condoms would Jesus pass out at school,” and “Would Jesus ban prayer in school?”

Hah! Wonderful job!

[Eyes Unclouded]

Spot on sir, spot on.

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[Cinnamon]

Would Jesus skip paying taxes?

Would Jesus approve of reverse discrimination?

[GSlob]

"Who Would Jesus Deport?”" - why, the devils, of course. He used to cast them into the Gadarene swine, or merely out.

[Nachum]

How many illegals would Jesus let in?
How many illegals would Jesus let out of county jails?
Would Jesus give California drivers' licenses to the illegals?
Would Jesus give amnesty to the illegals?
Would Jesus let the illegals bankrupt the state treasury?
Would Jesus let the illegals hang the stars and stripes upside down?

[Choose Ye This Day]

WIWJS

Whose identity would Jesus steal?

Muy, muy bien, Mr. Silverback.

[stainlessbanner]

I’m not interested in governing by Bible verse.

Our Founders looked to the scripture for advice and we have a republic.

[Wormwood]

Would Jesus care if a poor working man was "illegal" or not?

Would Jesus even use the word, "illegal" when describing a human being?

Just a question from the sidelines.

[rpierce]

Excellent op-ed. Thanks for writing this.

I get the same mild irritation at this kind of silly thinking when I see the oh-so-sophisticated academics in our town putting out signs on their yards that say “War is not the answer.”

[Choose Ye This Day]

We’re a nation of laws (not T-shirts)

I think the Left would say we are a Nation of Bumperstickers. You know what they say, "Speaking Truth to Power at 35 m.p.h. on the back-end of a 1988 Volvo."

[MarkeyD]

Please add me too. Great job!

[investigateworld]

please add, thnxs

[Mr. Silverback]

I forgot to work in, "Which racist and Communist groups would Jesus ally Himself with?"

[MHGinTN]

"If you can pretend the Almighty is your personal mascot, or your pet or your ego stroker ... I seem to recall a very successful sermon on something like 'It Is A Fearful Thing To Fall Into The Hands Of An Agry God'. But Hell and God's anger and wrath are not tolerant enough for today's liberal democrat elitists who claim to be christians as they defend and promote the slaughter of alive unborn children or when they push for cannibalizing the earliest aged humans, or push forward and admire the fetal tissue industry stocked by partial birth infanticide (Michigan has made it a 'good thing' to have bountiful tissue banks stocked from aborted Michigan children; they're so enlightened up there in Conyersland).

[Nachum]

Would Jesus even use the word, "illegal" when describing a human being?

Okayyy. How about this...

How many poor working men who ran accross our border in the millions with out regard to other's property, jumped ahead of line of millions of other poor working men and then committed crimes then were captured and then wound up in jails would Jesus allow to come out and commit more crimes like theft, assault, rape, and murder?

Is that better?

Wait, here we go:

How many poor working men who cheated and jumped ahead of the line of other poor working men who followed the rules and obeyed our laws and then ran accross our borders would Jesus force the law abiding poor working men to give drivers licenses to?

Ah, maybe this will work:

Would Jesus let half of the hospitals in our state go broke because poor working men cheated other poor working men and jumped ahead of the line by not obeying the same rules that the poor working men here legally had obeyed their whole lives?

Does that work better for you?

[Mr. Silverback]

Thank you!