Whether you believe in the existence or not... ... ... WWJND?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[rustydog]

1. Kick

[RT Atlanta]

2. awesome!

K&R

[Angry Dragon]

3. K&R

[tularetom]

4. I dunno, maybe jesus was a thug who just got good PR

Maybe he did do all those things but had some Judean proto fox news cranking out the press releases to fool the hicks.

[Scuba]

6. Critical thinking at work. n/t

[woodsprite]

5. I told my daughter I wanted a WWJBD bumpersticker.

What Would Joe Biden Do?

[C_U_L8R]

7. Vote Republican

or vote at all for that matter

[Deep13]

9. Right on that second part, I think.

That falls within the realm of "Caesar's." That is actually the basis of the seperation of church and state. JC made no claim to worldly authority and was plainly uninterested in politics. This is in contrast to Mohammed who was not only god's prophet, but chief soldier and politician.

[Deep13]

8. Anything that would be considered worldly or driven by reptilian instinct.

Territory, wealth acquisition, aggression, mating rights, fear mongering and even the basic drive to survive are instincts we inherited from reptiles. Any of the higher ideals, compassion, love, charity, kindness etc. are all far more recent evolutionary achievements.

We can debate the real meaning of the NT (assuming there is one), but whether or not JC was a wise and kindly healer like liberals believe or a blood sacrifice for sin like conservatives believe, one thing is certain: he was no capitalist.

[JNelson6563]

10. Love it! Passing it on!

[freshwest]

11. Good list.

[Prophet 451]

12. One query

"Run a network"?

[14thColony]

15. Since it's paired with joining a militia

I assume it refers to a terrorist network.

[Prophet 451]

18. Ah, that would make sense

Thanks.

[bmbmd]

13. I know for certain

He would build stuff and fish.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. He was the son of a carpenter (or step son if you like)

and many of his apostles were fishermen, but.....


Besides the story of miraculously stretching a board that was cut to short by Joseph when he was 12, I don't remember any mention of him actually building stuff.


and... Besides the story of him telling fishermen to cast their nets off the other side of the boat, I don't remember him doing any actual fishing. Even this only states that he was there and suggested the other side of the boat.


I don't know of any mention of Jesus ever doing anything to earn an honest living other than preaching.


If you are aware of something I am not please feel free to enlighten me. I am no expert and would never claim to be.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. In contemporary times, he might've franchised a chain of co-op foot-washing salons. n/t

[bmbmd]

21. Hmmm-good points.

John 1 proclaims that all things that were made were made through Him, so there's a start. He knew enough about the carpentry business to insist that a "wise man" would build his house upon the rock. He made wine from water, which is certainly a form of creating. He became the stone which the bulders rejected, and built a new people on it. As far as fishing, He proclaimed his followers as "fishers of men". And, in John 21, when the followers came upon the risen Jesus sitting on the sand, what was he doing? Cooking fish. There was no one else around, so either he conjured them up, called them up as He did with the fish with the shekel in its mouth, or he caught them himself. We know he certainly knew his way around a fish fry. Good advice, even to this day (words which I often quote to my republican friends) if you're not catching fish where you are, let your nets down on the other side of the boat. As far as an honest living, healing the sick, restoring sight to the blind, raising the dead, saving the world-those seem like salable skills in today's tough job market.

[Motown_Johnny]

22. most of that is hyperbole

and just because he was cooking some fish with nobody else around does not mean he caught them or conjured them. For all we know he stole them or begged them.

If you consider faith healing to be a salable skill in today's tough job market then I guess he did have a way to earn a living but I see very little evidence that carpentry or fishing were among them.

[On the Road]

17. Here's One Answer:

In the summer of 1642 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a teenage boy was accused of buggering a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves, and a turkey. This is real history on the books. In accordance with the Biblical laws of Leviticus, after the boy confessed he was forced to watch each animal being slaughtered. Then he was killed and his body heaped with the dead animals and buried in an unmarked pit... I ask, "Any questions?" The fourth-graders just look at me. A girl in the second row says, "What's buggering?" I say, ask your teacher....

Their teacher's outside, waiting. How it worked was, a couple hours ago, while her class was carding wool, this teacher and me wasted some sperm in the smokehouse, and for sure she thought it would turn into something romantic, but hey.... Their teacher, her name's Amanda or Allison or Amy. Some name with a vowel in it.

Just keep asking yourself: "What would Jesus not do?

Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385720922&view=excerpt

[pacalo]

19. He'd have his work cut out for him in these times. Lots of freaking idiots.

Oh...& this comes to mind, also:

[Keith Bee]

20. Run a Network

He would not.

[HappyMe]

23. kickaroni

[Enthusiast]

24. K&R, Right on! nt