The impossibility of a socialist Jesus

Originally Posted by que

Well in all honesty, considering Jesus was a middle-eastern man, if he had a political stance it would not be socialist or non socialist, it would have been Shiite or Sunni, or something along those lines.

Am I missing something with this statement?

Those groups did not exist till about 1300 years after he lived.

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Originally Posted by Crisco

Am I missing something with this statement?

Those groups did not exist till about 1300 years after he lived.

Exactly. Plus, Shiites and Sunnis are Islamic and Jesus would not have associated with Islam. Not just because Islam wouldn't exist for over 600 years; but because Islam rejects His diety, thus Islam is a religion of Satan, not of GOD.

Originally Posted by Crisco

No the thing with tax collectors in those days is that they made their money on the backs of the people.

They would buy the right to collect taxes from the Romans and any monies they collected above what the Romans required in their tax they wwere alllowed to keep for themselves.

If I owe Rome 1k and then tax collector says I owe 1.5k he takes my money sends the 1k to Rome and keeps the .5k for himself.

It was a hated profession for 1) collecting the taxes for the Romans and 2) over taxing the people and stealing their wealth.

Yep, a good modern example of this would be the Judenrate - which were Jews that the Nazis entrusted to maintain order among all the other Jews in the ghettos - before they were all shipped off to concentration camps. They were seen as traitors by the Jewish people, since they were only interested in their own power and self-preservation.

I'm amazed by the fact that people would even attempt to put Jesus in a box............

Oh the grasping of the left............