Remembering Jesus on Easter Sunday: “what you do unto the least of these, you do unto me.”

[Karmadillo]

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Remembering Jesus on Easter Sunday
2010 April 4
by Ian Welsh

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.—Gandhi

I am not a Marxist—Marx

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets—Matthew 7:12

On this Easter Sunday, if you believe in Jesus, I tell you this. Don’t ask yourself what you think Jesus would do, because it’s clear most Christians don’t have the faintest idea, instead, ask yourself these questions.

1.What have I done to Jesus?
2.What have those I support done to Jesus?

35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: 36 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. 37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you: thirsty and gave you drink? 38 Or when did we see you a stranger and took you in? Or naked and covered you? 39 Or when did we see you sick or in prison and came to you? 40 And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. 41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink. 43 I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered me not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me. 44 Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you? 45 Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me. 46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

Have you tortured Jesus? Have you bombed Jesus? Have you laughed when someone raped Jesus? Have you killed Jesus? Have you said “those animals in jail deserve to be raped and beaten?”

What have you done to Jesus?

What have you done to Jesus!

Jesus didn’t say to kill you enemies, to annihilate them. He didn’t say to beat them. He didn’t say your life was worth more than another person’s life.

What Jesus said is “what you do unto the least of these, you do unto me.”

What Jesus said was

“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

I am not Christian. I do not believe that Jesus was the son of God, except perhaps in the heretical sense that we are all God’s children.

But I do love Jesus. I do respect Jesus. I do think he was a good man, and a good guide.

And it saddens me when those who claim to act in his name do exactly the opposite of what Jesus would want them to do.

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[kentuck]

1. Blessed are the warmongers?

Did not Jesus say that at the Sermon on the Mount??

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. And it saddens me when I see the absolute filth that's been posted on DU this Easter season

I won't put the mods in a position of slapping my wrist over "calling out" other DUers by naming specifics, but some of the "Jesus" threads that have been posted here...including one this morning...make me ashamed to be associated with this site.

And yeah, I already know the respnonse from many who will read this..."screw you, if you don't like it, leave."

Such is life, I guess.

[Adsos Letter]

6. +1...

and Jesus is reported to have said:

"A great number will say to me on that day,
Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name,
and did we not by your name send out evil spirits,
and by your name do works of power?"

"And then will I say to them,
I never had knowledge of you:
go from me, you workers of evil."

Matt.7:22-23


All from within the context of the Sermon on the Mount; a message about faith, trust, and how we relate to God and people...all people.

[demosincebirth]

8. +2

[bobbolink]

9. No.

Such is DU.

Life can be so much better.

[me b zola]

3. K&R

[ixion]

4. xians worship the Baby Jesus, and Jesus on the Cross...

very few of them actually concern themselves with the Living Jesus, because that's where he said all the cool stuff.

It's easy to control the message of a baby in a crip and a dead guy on a cross.

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[Aristus]

7. Jesus was a socialist. The teabaggers will be cutting him out of the Bible next.

Don't want no liberals in the Bobble... :eyes:

[bobbolink]

10. That's what I was going to post.

Matthew 25 will be cut. I think Glen Beck has already decreed that.

Pharisee that he is.