http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2005/1096
March 21, 2005
By Harvey Wasserman
If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him
As we enter another Easter Season, it's become all too obvious that if
Christ returns, those who hate in Jesus's name will have him slimed,
then killed.
Christ was a long-haired peace activist who would have hated the war
in Iraq.
"Blessed are the peacemakers" Jesus said in his defining Sermon on
the Mount.
"Turn the other cheek...Love thy neighbor."
Such hippie-radical ideals are the "Christian" right wing's worst
nightmare.
The GOP would never tolerate an upstart like Jesus gathering a
following in the face of their corporate-fundamentalist crusade.
These are Christians who love power but would despise the actual
Christ, just as they love a Zionist Israel but can't tolerate actual
Jews.
In the wake of Jesus's exemplary life of non-violent rebellion, a
perverse liturgy weighted by twenty centuries of intolerant
bloodthirsty bigotry has erupted in his name.
Attacks on people of color, on nations with oil, on humans of the same
gender who love each other, on youth who enjoy sex....all have become
enemies of a new fundamentalist crusade doing in Christ's name things
that would have left him sickened and horrified.
In large part through the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus came to be viewed
as Divine because he spoke eloquently for a gracious, loving God.
Karl Rove, Tom DeLay and their ilk believe George Bush and his
corporate-fundamentalist minions speak to and for a very different
kind of God, one with characteristics at war with those described by
Christ.
Bush-Rove's Divinity is a nasty dictator, defined by hate and greed,
intolerance and hypocrisy.
Christ kicked the moneychangers out of the temple.
Rove-DeLay's Republicans have enshrined them.
Christ spoke of a God of compassion and joy.
Today's so-called Christian fundamentalists worship one of
greed-driven warmongering totalitarianism.
The only way to salvation, they say is THEIR way, through a spiteful
God that hates all Jesus preached.
As Tecumseh, the great Shawnee warrior, shouted at William Henry
Harrison in the early 1800s, "You killed the son of your God, then you
worshipped him when he was dead, and now you kill those who choose not
to follow him."
If Christ came back today to resume preaching the Sermon on the Mount,
Karl Rove would slime him in the media, then kill him outright, then
turn his words into right wing hatespeak, then kill those who refuse
to follow in his name.
If Christ came back to organize against Bush's war, Rove's pet
bloviators would shriek about Mary Magdalene.
Isn't that her seated next to Christ in DaVinci's "Last Supper"?
Wasn't she unmarried, pregnant with Christ's ***** child, catching
his blood dripping from the cross?
Rush Limbaugh would demand to know what right did the self-proclaimed
"Son of God" had to a relationship out of wedlock?
Who was he to feed those loaves and fishes to the undeserving poor,
prolonging the existence of inferior racial stock?
Who was he to attack those moneychangers who are the Elect of God and
the sponsors of Rush's air time?
Then O'Reilly would slime the Easter thing.
A self-anointed "peace prophet" rising from the tomb?
Poppycock, he'd say.
Just another pinko hippie terrorist conspiracy theory.
But if Christ persisted, and built a following like, say, Martin
Luther King or Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez or Nelson
Mandela...well....they'd kill him.
They'd set it up to blame someone else, like, say the Jews, or the
terrorists, or the Willie Hortons.
They'd find some patsy to take the fall for the assassination.
Rove would cloud his death in shadowy scandal.
Stories would surface unconfirmed debts.
Or tainted investments.
Maybe something about hashish, no stranger to the region.
Hannity would feature some lovers he jilted.
There'd be rumors he was gay.
Talk of a love triangle.
Ugly gossip about Mary and Judas.
False leads about Jews wanting him dead.
New doubts about that "virgin birth."
Whatever it would take to rub the sheen off an anti-war "Son of God"
and to turn his death tawdry, Rove would do.
But would Jesus stand for the slaughter of 100,000 Iraqis in his name
merely because of oil and dubious Biblical prophecy?
How would Christ view a president in love with the gas chamber and
electric chair?
What would Jesus, who hated hypocrisy above all, say about a Bush who
scampers back to prolong the life of a brain-dead woman who wanted to
die, but who gleefully executes 150 people as governor and as many
more as president as he can get his hands on?
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