How would Jesus vote?
There was a recent Intelligence Squared debate in the UK on who Jesus would vote for in the upcoming US presidential election. Conor Gearty argued Jesus would vote as a Democrat, James Boys argued he'd vite as a Republican, and Giles Fraser argued in the debate that Jesus would have abstained from voting. Sadly, I can't find the text of the debate, but there should be a forthcoming video of it out soon. The Tablet blog commented on the debate - Jesus would have voted in the US election.
This all makes me think of the recent flurry of Catholic Bishops' exhorarions to vote Republican ... I don't know if Jesus would vote or not, but I don't believe he'd vote for Romney.
This all makes me think of the recent flurry of Catholic Bishops' exhorarions to vote Republican ... I don't know if Jesus would vote or not, but I don't believe he'd vote for Romney.
posted by crystal | 8:02 PM
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I didn't find the Tablet argument very compelling. It seems like Jesus was always seeking to change the capacity of men and women to love one another in a fundamental way despite their religious, ethnic or political affiliations. I don't think he would have seen voting as a means to that end. However, not being Jesus, I did vote for Obama.
Hi Richard,
Yeah, I voted for him too.
Maybe Jesus would have voted *as well as* doing all the radical stuff that he seemed to do? He did suggest giving alms to the poor, although in the kingdom of heaven there will probably be no poor.
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