"He died for your sins"

[angryinoville]

A commonly used phrase by the christian right referring to Jesus. This same slogan should be put on placards with the pictures of sons, daughters and other loved ones that died in Iraq when people protest in front of the white house. Let's see if that message gets through. (BTW, it can be he or she)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. That's a great idea. Unfortunately, the Christofascists don't feel guilt

[DanCa]

3. The Christian right are like the borg in star trek

And not the cool borg in the next generation but the neutered borg in voyager.

[skids]

9. Oh, they feel guilt...

....but only AFTER they have been caught. :dilemma:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1658895

[unrepuke]

2. I thought it was King Kong who died for my sins...

:shrug:

[DanCa]

4. Nah man it was Elvis

He was a king and they still have vigils outside gracelands and sightings.

[unrepuke]

5. **Gasp** What!! Elvis dead? Say it ain't so, Joe

:cry:

[DanCa]

7. As Tommy Lee said

"He's not Dead," .puts on dark shades."He just went home."

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Totally. Fnord.

Bill Hicks, too.

[dback]

31. "No, 'twas beauty killed the beast."

Hope that line's in the remake--think they cut it from the '76 version.

[navvet]

6. In Poor taste, and insulting

to christians like me who are not hard right, but do believe that Jesus died for my sins.

To believe does not make one a bad person just because others misuse the religion for bad purpose.

[ieoeja]

8. Why?

Do you believe the soldiers dying in Iraq are dying for a good cause? If not, then are they not dying for Bush's sins?

[DanCa]

12. Side's Jesus invited humour

How did this old prayer go?

Now I lay me down to sleep
A bag of peanuts at my feet
If I shall die before I wake
Give them to my brother Jake

Okay i didn't say it was good humour. And that was told to me by my parish priest.

[navvet]

15. Not a bad little joke at all

and in no way offensive.

[DanCa]

17. welcome to DU Navvet

[navvet]

20. Thank You

:dem:

[unrepuke]

28. A Hot Rodder's prayer :

Now I lay me down to sleep
I parked my hot rod in the street
If it should roll before I wake
I pray The Lord will set the brake.

O8)

[DanCa]

30. Cool

All though at first I thought it would be about rowdy piper at first.

[navvet]

14. I do not believe that dying in Iraq will accomplish much,

and I am against our being there.

And I agree they are dying for Bush's mistakes, but to use the language of faith (it was used long before Iraq) in such a caviler fashion is insulting to those of us who take their faith in a serious manor.

That was my only point.

Is it any wonder why a large portion of progressives and the Democratic party are considered a-religious at best and anti-religious for the most part?

It does us no good to be so reflex against all things of faith.


When we do we prove the right wing stereo type to be valid.

[fishwax]

22. I don't agree that the slogan as indicated is anti-faith

I think it's a good idea, and I don't think there's anything inherently anti-christian to put "he/she died for your sins" on a placard with a picture of a fallen soldier as a way to protest the sins of the bush adminsitration.

I understand and appreciate your sensitivity to the issue, but I think there are a lot of progressive christians who would not consider it or similar actions to be areligious or anti-religious.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. It's OK though because Jesus lives!

He's not dead, so he never was because to be dead is to cease to exist and he's never done that, according to everyone I know who follows that stuff.

[unrepuke]

29. I go along with "He never was"

:evilgrin:

[angryinoville]

24. The point of it was to give them a slogan they could relate to

And use it against them as if to say, "Jesus died for our sins, but my son/daughter died for yours Mr. Bush!"

[info being]

26. But the statement in this context is literally true.

The problem with Christians is they get offended by obvious truths.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. As in the case of Jesus and the soldiers, thanks, but I'm fond of my sins.

[The Magistrate]

13. As The Song Says, Sir

"Jesus died for somebody's sins...but not mine...."

[Stuckinthebush]

16. Or the great John Prine song, Sam Stone

"There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes...
Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose...."

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. Patti Smith!

:thumbsup:

[The Magistrate]

25. An Old Favorite Of Mine, Ma'am

By the way, who is the fellow pictured in the top hat...?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

27. It's a Northeast Elitist Snob, Sir

It is for a DUer who thinks everyone from the Northeast is an elitist.

[Javaman]

19. I thought he died for the people that were living up to his death...

not after. I was never quite clear on that one.

This is why I'm an ex-catholic

[Straight Shooter]

23. I always resented that scripture.

I didn't ask Jesus to do that. I don't want that responsibility. I don't want a martyr on a cross when the life of Jesus and how he treated those less fortunate should be plenty of evidence to teach people the right way to live.

[Karenina]

32. Jean Charles de Menezes

also died for "your sins."