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EDITOR:
Mr. Longhofer is twistedly dead-wrong, as is too often the case. He claims that “Jesus was a liberal because he fed the poor and gave out free health care.” Jesus was actually not a modern leftist “liberal,” he was a “classical liberal,” or what we might today call a “Libertarian.” He forgave the sinners, whipped the money-changers (bank$ster$), and excoriated the lawyers, politicians and religious establishment. Something we ought to do more of, in consideration of the dereliction of duty and corruption so rampant in our current system.
But the meat of what made Jesus a Libertarian, and not a “liberal,” was that he and his volunteer staff fed the poor out of their own pockets, and he rendered the “free health care” by their own hands. He didn’t erect massive debt-and-tax-fed government bureaucracies, to saddle the people with government controls, regulations, taxations, coersions, fines, penalties and punishments. He didn’t “erect a multitude of new offices and send a swarm of bureacrats to harrass our people and eat out our substance.”
That is the essential difference between modern “liberals” and Free People: The leftists use theft-by-taxation, and government power to force others to do their will — Free People organize on their own and do things voluntarily. Let us indeed follow Jesus’ example.
GREG POST
Cameron Park
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James E.September 25, 2012 - 5:00 pm
Mr. Post, you say Libertarian, I say Liberal -- and Jesus might have erected a multitude of new offices if he could have gotten financing. We will never know. Lost in the fog of time.
CatherineSeptember 28, 2012 - 1:05 am
Poor Jesus gets dragged into the silliest tangents. He's probably rolling over in his grave on this one. Wouldn't it be more fun, and a lot more accurate, to see him as an anarchist insurgent (hence the arrest and execution)?
James E.September 28, 2012 - 2:22 am
Catherine, shouldn't you be asleep at 1:05 in the morning? Well, me too at 2:22 in the morning.
Stephen ValentineSeptember 28, 2012 - 9:45 am
A couple of comments, I agree with Mr. Post, libertarian more likely then liberal. Ms. Catherine, "rolling over in his grave". You insult all Christians, the core belief is that Jesus rose from the grave and continued to preach before ascending to Heaven. As far as his anarchistic tendencies, "Give unto Caesar what is Caesars." He advocated that you should pay your taxes but still do good deeds. I don't think he would have advocated borrowing to build new buildings of any kind, during the period money lenders were viewed as lower than tax collectors, and he did throw the money changers from the Synagogue.
Jesus H ChristSeptember 28, 2012 - 9:56 am
That is all I have to say.
DB SmithSeptember 28, 2012 - 9:26 pm
James E.. You should hope that your wanna be wit will serve you well when you go to hell. Catherine.. More fun??? You sicko!! You both are too stupid to know it but it's a coming. Have a wonderful evening.
James E.September 29, 2012 - 8:07 am
Mr. Smith, Hell? I don't think so - God loves a bit of humor. Perhaps those without humor will be going to Hell. I'm guessing you may be in trouble.
Richard GuentherSeptember 29, 2012 - 10:13 am
Jesus on earth, in history, was neither Liberal nor Libertarian. Study the Son of Man and stop, whoever, creating The Prophet of the Christians in your own image.
Hangtown's kidSeptember 29, 2012 - 4:35 pm
He was as liberal as can be. It drives the right crazy with cognitive dissonance.
Richard GuentherSeptember 29, 2012 - 6:51 pm
He was materially and spiritually indeed very liberal , yes, but not a Liberal...or Conservative, etc. He, humanly speaking,lived a life of self-sacrifice; not the so typical "What can you do for me? sort of false love so common in our society and world.