Jesus for Sale

Rick Perry thinks the Bible will fix our economy.  While I think inflation spurred mal-investment has something to do with it, I might agree with him.  If he weren't simply selling Jesus to buy the presidency.

You see, Perry belongs to that camp of Christians that supports murdering innocent people in the Middle East.  Saying you want "a Christian nation" while you defend murder doesn't mean much to me.  Other than that you're a hypocrite.



Prayers are more effective with a microphone.  And in front of a large audience.
(edited by Double Birds)
Selling Jesus has paid off for a long time.  In 1999, W. Bush famously had a "Jesus moment." When he was asked who his favorite philosopher was, and he said "Jesus."  Rather than losing points for not knowing any other philosophers, Bush gained huge points among evangelical voters.

Bush won the presidency, and went on to murder and torture countless innocent people.  I'd say Jesus lost on that one, to Bush's gain.

If a presidential candidate is a Democrat, he has to take an oath on the Bible that he is not a Muslim, and American voters let him pass.  But Republican candidates don't shut up about how much they love God.  And it pays.

Voters don't seem to mind if politicians simply pay lip service.  The heaven-obsessed occupants of the Bible-belt suck up politicians' religious peddling like a crack whore sucks crack.  They don't want to hear about the "Mormon God" though, which is why Romney will never win the South.

It was inspiring to see what Ron Paul had to say about his faith:
"My faith is a deeply private issue to me, and I don’t speak on it in great detail during my speeches because I want to avoid any appearance of exploiting it for political gain."
He refuses to bring up God in political discourse on moral grounds.  No other candidate has the moral backbone to take this risk.  The others choose to pander to their voters rather than appease a God who hates hypocrisy.

Is selling Jesus for the presidency worth it?  If you get the presidency in exchange, you get half a million bucks per year.  You get to be the most powerful man in the world.  You get put in to all the history books.  It's easy to get book deals afterward.  Seems like a great deal.

I belong to the Austrian school of economic thought, which holds that the value gained in economic exchange varies from person to person.  So I can't place an arbitrary dollar value on the presidency, and compare it to the dollar value of a politician's relationship with Christ.  But I can say that if they make that exchange, then it means they do value political office over Jesus, which, if you're a Christian, is probably not something you want to support.

With the current state of the precious metals market, it seems to me that Judas, with his 30 silvers, got a better deal than these other clowns.

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