Reply #10: Jesus wouldn't have to "bolt."...

[Ufomammut]

Because he wouldn't belong to or identify with that group or any other, at least in the sense the question poses.

The sad irony is that many who comprise the GOP use and exploit Jesus' messege, and fail to understand the his essence: a dissident who opposed the Roman government, opposed illegitimate power structures in all forms, and walked the earth with the poor, the castaway, the downtrodden, extolling the message of spirit and peace.

He'd be dismissed as a crazy, hateful, hippy, tinfoil weakling in today's evangelic movement (even by many on the left!) ...or worse yet, poor. And just as it happened in his time, those who slavishly cling to corrupt power structures would want him killed in order to silence his messege ...no different than how right wingers can barely conceal their contempt for anyone not of their fascist ilk today, and if they thought they could get away with it, don't delude yourself for a second into believing they wouldn't do it on a mass scale.

Here's a great book on this subject, "America, Fascism, And God: Sermons from a Heretical Preacher," by Davidson Loehr.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931498938/qid=1142427830/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7891850-9895255?s=books&v=glance&n=283155