Hmmmm...WWJND? (what would Jesus not do)

[TalkingDog]

[Paradoxical]

1. Wait, how is owning a weapon equivalent to attacking the poor?

[Bucky]

3. This reply is just a placeholder while go off to google up a face palm image.

Nothing in the cartoon suggested the two things were equivalent. What on earth made you think all the things listed had to be of equal concern?


Ah here it is...

[Paradoxical]

5. Maybe because it's surrounded by detestable things?

Is it not clearly obvious that the cartoonist is implicating owning a firearm with hating the poor?

There's nothing wrong with owning a weapon. Absolutely nothing. To put it up there is ridiculous.

[Matariki]

13. Um, what sort of weapon do you think Jesus would buy

based on parables about him in the christian bible?

[Paradoxical]

14. He possesses the ultimate weapon. He's the human manifestation of God.

[Matariki]

15. Aren't we all.

[TalkingDog]

7. Better question: How is owning a weapon equivalent to running for President

BTW: I own 3...

I agree with the fig kicker... finding direct equivalence between any of these items is ???

[JuniperLea]

18. Why would Jesus need a weapon?

:shrug:

[Bucky]

2. Jesus would kick this thread.

If it was fig, he would kick it twice...

[TalkingDog]

6. Ha! Then he'd prolly take his own name in vain.

n/t

[JuniperLea]

19. Yeah, that's where "fuck me" was started...

:rofl:

Damn me! To hell with me!

[derby378]

4. Jesus used a whip to drive the hucksters out of the Jerusalem temple

Last I heard, a whip is considered a "weapon."

This is not to say that Jesus actually struck anyone with the whip - just that he used it to chase the fraudsters away.

[TalkingDog]

8. When they outlaw whips, only outlaws will possess whips

And the fetish crowd will become a gang.

[Bucky]

9. Did Jesus use a whip?

Mark 11:15-19
(15)And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (16)And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. (17)And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." (18)And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching. (19) And when evening came they went out of the city

{note: no whip}

Matthew 21:12-13
(12) And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (13)He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a den of robbers."

{note: no whip}

Luke 19:45-46
(45) And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, (46) saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers."

{note: no whip}

[Paradoxical]

16. Except for that part where he used a whip...

"In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables."

John 2:14-15

[JuniperLea]

20. Driving someone or a beast with a whip...

Isn't the same as striking them.

Clearly those Goldman Sacks dudes were pissing him off!

[Bucky]

23. Gospel of John? You don't believe that nonsynoptic crapola, do you?

[Paradoxical]

24. Dude I don't believe any of it. I'm a pantheist.

[TalkingDog]

26. You are funny! I like the cut of your jib.

[foxfeet]

10. IIRC, there is no mention of whether or not he actually owned the whip.

Coulda borrowed it or snatched one belonging to one of the moneylenders.

[Bucky]

11. Jesus would not "snatch"

Jesus didn't even like to say the word "snatch"

[JuniperLea]

21. He fashioned it from cords...

With his own hands.

I bet it made a big ol' CRACK!

[Kievan Rus]

12. WWJND -- well, He certainly wouldn't cut services to the poor and cut taxes for the rich

[JuniperLea]

22. Amen!

Erm... yep!

[JuniperLea]

17. The last one is my newest pet Jesus peeve...

This whole NOTW bullshit is on my last frayed nerve. Time for a Jesus Christ Superstar revival... but those entrenched in the dogma would never get it anyway.

[derby378]

25. Hey, knock yourself out

I can't remember if I've ever seen the play. It would give me a good excuse to watch.