What If Jesus
Were President?

by monty keeling
CStaton
11/07/2003

What if Jesus were president of the United States?

 Sounds absurd I know. (On several levels.) But the thought came to me after reading an opinion column in The Washington Post. On Nation Deeply Divided, by E.J. Dionne Jr., talks about how we Americans are becoming more of what we already were politically. The Republicans are becoming more hard line Republican and the Democrats are becoming more mulish.

 Dionne writes:

 “Nobody, of course, is pulling out rifles or cannon. But Tuesday's election results in state and local contests suggest that an already politically divided country got a little more so. We are divided by region and by race, but above all by party.”

 Dionne reports that after Tuesday’s elections the Pew Research Center released a study summarizing the findings of polls of 80,000 interviews over the past three years. The study’s found an evenly divided and politically polarized country. Divisions were cultural and regional as well as political. Most of the socially traditional and religious states where in the South. New England and the states of the Pacific Coast were heavily represented among the least religious, least traditional and most  “dovish”.

 Dovish? You mean like the symbol of Christianity and Jesus dovish?

 And I think the studies’ observations are true. While Democratic areas are anything but big on support of the Christian faith, Republican areas are enthusiastic about religion, but they only embrace certain parts of the New Testament beliefs. So what we have are Democrats who are more in line with the social doctrine of the New Testament than Republicans. But the Dems didn’t get their belief system by being big on the Christian faith, and Republicans doing worship, Bible study, and prayer, but supporting war, big business, a stern legal system, and downsizing benefits for the less fortunate. Of course, the Democrats aren’t really any closer to the faith than Republicans. Because of their support for abortion, but also because no action or belief system can be right outside of total dependence on faith in God. And the Dems aren't far behind the Repubs when it comes to be more concerned about the wealthy than the struggling. Otherwise you end up doing the right things in the wrong way.

 Think I’m wrong about all of this? I’d be interested in hearing through thoughts. What if Jesus where president? Drop me how you think things would be the same or different if Jesus were president. E-mail cstation@cstation.info. Be warned I’ll probably post them for others to share also.