Posted on 12/24/2004 8:21:47 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
President Bush has implemented economic policies that resemble those of the Roman Empire, which forced the baby Jesus into homelessness on the night of his birth, former civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a pre-Christmas rant late Thursday.
"In the last [Bush] budget, we cut housing again, and that was Jesus' dilemma. In Bethlehem, his family ended up homeless," Jackson told MSNBC's Campbell Brown.
"Rome was a wealthy country that left Jesus and Mary and Joseph, in a sense, homeless," he complained. "He was born an at-risk baby."
The GOP bashing Democrat said that while Bush's reelection campaign had been successful in "marketing the language of religious values," the Bush White House isn't practicing what it preaches.
Jackson charged that under Bush's policies, the U.S. "appears to be indifferent toward the poor as we seek tax cuts and no-bid contracts for the wealthy; as we engage in wars of choice - driving our nation into isolation."
"Today we are celebrating the wealthy and war, not the poor and peace," he contended, while urging the Bush administration to "restore the Lyndon Baines Johnson vision where we wipe out poverty - not wipe out the poor."
Well maybe if they hadn't been forced to go pay taxes and register for the census, they could have stayed home. (sarcasm).
Actually, it was the ROMAN GOVERNMENT that "left Jesus homeless" by making Joseph go to Bethelehem to be taxed. He already HAD a "house" (Matthew says) in Nazareth. And by the way, Jesus wasn't homeless because Joe was poor, but because he failed to use his Judean version of American Express to reserve a room.
D'oh! Thanks, you and everyone and his uncle.
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Dan
Why am I not surprised that this liberal reverand doesn't know his own religion?
Mary and Joseph weren't homeless, they were traveling and they couldn't find an inn with available space. Also, Jesus was meant to be born to the lower classes.
Only reason Jesus was born in a stable in unsanitary conditions without a comfortable roof over his head and his poor mother had to ride over 60 miles on the back of a donkey when she was 9 months pregnant and endangered her life and welfare was because of a tax increase.
Sounds more like the Romans were DemocRATs.
Well, not the only reason, but an interesting thought for the day.
If I remember correctly (from reading "Shakedown"), Jesse dropped his only theology class after 6 months, and was given an honorary doctorate of divinity many years later as a political payback.
Is there any way to get the "Jesse Jackass" touring schedule for 2005, so we can FREEP him at every turn?!
I thought that there was a criminal investigation being conducted on the Reverend for using tax exempt dollars for personal use? Or is that on the shelf next to the Sandy Berger investigation?????
So now jackson know what is in the heart of men? He really thinks he is that powerful huh? He will see.
You are right about the HOUSE. In Luke he used the Greek word for INN. Mary and Joseph more than likely had family there and for privacy, they let them use the barn for birth. The jewish people took care of each other. I hear one historian say that there were not any motels or hotels back then.
Jesse Jackson is dangerous and anyone with a mind larger than a pea should be able to see right thru him.
My fondest wish is that Jesse Jackson goes broke and becomes Homeless himself and is reduced to grubbing for pennies in the gutter where he belongs.
"Rev" Jesse Jackson obviously hasn't read a Bible or any scholarly literature......EVER. What an idiot....
JJ is America's foremost race racketeer...
"Only reason Jesus was born in a stable in unsanitary conditions without a comfortable roof over his head and his poor mother had to ride over 60 miles on the back of a donkey when she was 9 months pregnant and endangered her life and welfare was because of a tax increase.
Sounds more like the Romans were DemocRATs"
LOLOL
You're being WAY too kind...
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