Jesus just left Chicago, and He’s bound for New Orleans.
” Indiana by state superintendent Tony Bennett”
When did he give up his singing career? How disappointing.
Let me go out on a limb and say that Jesus would preach the Word of God; something that is prohibited in the public school. Liberals appealing to those they have banned is funny.
That is an excellelnt analogy.
Just a heads up on the Jesus turning the tables over. First off it’s a great analogy, and secondly, just FYI in case some don’t know. He did so because the money changers in the temple were price gouging. People had to come from all over Israel and many could not travel with their sacrifice, they would buy it when they got to Jerusalem. Some were very poor, and the poor usually bought the doves. Some traveled for days. Jesus hadn’t been sacrificed yet so the sacrifices were still taking place. You had to have your own sacrifice a dove, a ram ect. to cleanse you of your sins. This is why Jesus was so ticked and it’s the only time you see Him that way. Until He returns that is ;)
I was initially astonished that UMC "parochial schools" are all but non-existant-- until I learned about the denomination's long standing commitment to supporting public education. Since "social justice" is a key tenet of the denomination, it would make sense that in the America of the past, a broad public education system would further that cause.
But I believe that the UMC's stance is anachronistic. What worries me today is the value system pushed by the excessively securalized public school system. I think that the value systems triumphed in the public schools works against biblical teaching. So if the public schools subvert the faith-- why is a church supporting them?
But I know the answer to this-- the Left controls the UMC machinery in large part. Many of my brothers and sisters are only interested in bibilical teachings that support their "progressive" politics-- they shun those parts of the Bible that impose strictures on personal morality.
The WWJD guilt-trip rationale is just another socialist liberal toolbelt item to be applied by the abuse of the power of suggestion or in explicitly biblical terms.
However, since we’re talking about Baby Boomer-aged and younger people, the question may as well be “What would John Lennon do?”, which is a joke because back in ‘72, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were just unwitting dupes in a movement being led by Yippies, the SDS and the Black Panther Party among others.
If John Lennon were alive today, he’d probably be a an American conservative and maybe even a “ditto-head” with a complimentary subscription to the EIB and Rush 24/7!