What was Jesus, if not a Hippy?

[mopaul]

long hair, robes, weird notions about peace and love, anti government, anti war, anti capitalism and anti establishment. hung around losers and drunkards and the scum of the earth and lived a crazy alternative lifestyle.

fuck duncan hunter and his hippy hatred, what he really hates is the truth.

[graywarrior]

1. Jesus was the dude

[JohnnyBoots]

5. The Dude abides...

[AuntPatsy]

2. Hilarious isn't it? the comparrison I mean, its very apt, they would

persecute him today just like they did all those years ago, don't think for one second he is not aware of that fact...

Karma can be a bitch.

[sniffa]

3. he was a goth

[jody]

4. Arnold would call Jesus a "girly boy". n/t

[sintax]

6. An activist who favored direct action

Flipping over tables and such.

Wasn't worried about how it would appear to 'his base' or being politically comfortable.

[MADem]

7. He was a total hippie

He looked like everyone did back in the late sixties, early seventies. Slap a pair of bell bottoms and a tiedye shirt on him and he coulda gone anywhere, from college dorm to concert, especially with those sandals...!

Even the robes would work, but they were a little more out there...

[Hubert Flottz]

8. The First Jesus Freak!

The Prince Of Peace...

[Igel]

9. There's little if any evidence for long hair;

the robes were standard fare in the absence of pants being worn.

Rather than being anti-government, he said to pay taxes to that government--otherwise, he pretty much ignored it entirely. He didn't insult the Pharisees and Sadducees collectively or individually when they did what they were to do under the OT law, or when they exceeded it, but when they failed to live up to it while claiming they were abiding by it and forcing others to do so, as well. In short, hypocrisy and self-righteousness he condemned. But he told people to be righteous, which somehow he didn't feel a need to define--maybe the definition was obvious or understood?

There was no capitalism, nor socialism, to be anti-. And he didn't tell a soldier to desert, just to follow his orders justly.

His friends were sometimes wealthy; sometimes they were poor; sometimes they were outcasts; sometimes they were sinners. The wealthy, he told to be generous; the poor, to be faithful; the outcasts, to be forgiving; and the sinners, to be righteous. Nobody got a free ride; no sin was declared just. Instead, he told them to repent.

Sounds like no hippy I ever met. Most of the hippies I met believed the idea of their repenting implies they were doing something wrong; and rather than being concerned with others' righteousness, was busy saying how unrighteous others were, and how righteous they themselves were. They appropriated much of the nicer sounding language of Jesus, but interpreted them, and their own words, self-servingly to mean whatever they found convenient. As far as I remember, nobody in the gospels found Jesus' words to be convenient or self-serving, including Jesus.

[lateo]

10. Damned straight he was a hippie.

Oh the irony.

[orpupilofnature57]

11. Love, Peace and Happiness, Civil Disobedience, Identifying wealth and

the scourge on mankind it causes.He wasn't a neo-con or hate munger!

[tmorelli415]

12. Republicans hate Jesus because he was a liberal

'hippy' is just a code word they use for 'liberal' or 'progressive' or anyone who lives their life according to Christian values.

Republicans are the Pharisees of our times. They know this and that is why they sneak around on DU and try to create phony posts so they can try to make Democrats look hostile to Christianity. Christ had some pretty strong words to say about those who would use his name to divide us: "Whoever does not gather with me scatters. Therefore, I say to you, every sin and blasphemey will be forgiven, but he who blasphemes against the Spirit will never be forgiven and is guilty of an everlasting sin." (Mark 3:28-29)

He also told us how to spot these people:

"At that time Jesus said to the disciples, 'Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeps clothing, but unwardly are revenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits you wil know them.'" Matt 7:16-21

Sound like anyone you know?

Shall we make a list of the fruits of Republican rule? The fruits of the various mystery posts that pop up on DU from the same list of known lurkers? How about we just count as their fruit the 1,800 dead American soldiers from this Republican war in Iraq?

How sad that these hypocrites come to DU and use Christ as a tool to spread lies and manufacture controversy. Need I say more?

You're a sick bastard, buddy. I'll say a prayer for you.