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Christian Senators Reject Jesus for Supreme Court Justice |
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Dateline: July 29, 2009 Washington D.C., “Christian Senators Reject Jesus for Supreme Court Justice”
After tense, terse and tedious questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee, a majority of Christian Senators voted against Jesus of Nazareth to become the first Aramaic speaking Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
Leading up to the nomination President Barak Obama articulated the qualities he wanted in a potential Justice.
“I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a casebook; it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives, whether they can make a living and care for their families, whether they feel safe in their homes and welcome in their own nation. I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.”
President Obama showcased the humble roots of nominee Jesus as he introduced him.
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put his foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place he was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He has no credentials but Himself.”
In the course of the hearings the Christian Senators were particularly vexed by the response of Jesus in a case where he failed to uphold the rule of law.
Fundamentalist Christian leaders had brought a woman before Jesus who had been caught in the act of adultery. They quoted from Leviticus in the law of Moses.
“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.”
They then challenged Jesus, “Now what do you say?”
Jesus stooped down and began to write with his finger in the dust on the ground. As they persisted in their questioning Jesus straightened up and said to them, “if any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” He then bent down again and continued writing with his finger on the ground. At this, they began to leave one by one, beginning with the eldest.
Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing before him. He stood up and asked her, ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? ‘No one sir,’ she replied. ‘Then neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now, and do not sin again.’”
Here is a sampling of responses from the Christian Senators, when asked why they rejected Jesus to be a Supreme Court Justice.
(Obama) “said that a judge has to be a person of empathy. What does that mean? Usually that’s a code word for an activist judge.”
Senator Jeff Sessions retorted,
“(His judicial philosophy is) “dangerous, because I don’t know what empathy means. So I’m one judge and I have empathy for you and not this party, and so…is he now free to rule one way or the other based on likes, predilections, politics, personal values?”
The Senate’s No. 2 Republican Jon Kyl forcefully stated he could not support a Supreme Court justice who decides cases based on
“emotions, feelings, preconceived ideas, or someone who takes into account human suffering and employs empathy from the bench.”
Peter, a fellow judge with Jesus, reflected on the Christian Senators “no” votes.
“The living stone rejected by men is chosen and precious in God’s sight..the very stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, a stone that will make men stumble and a rock that will make them fall.”
Your poor attempt to paint Republicans as Pharisees is without merit or intellect. You obviously don’t understand allegorical argument. Jesus didn’t like religious types who thought that keeping the law was paramount or key to salvation. Those who thought that then as well as know missed the spirit and point of the law. It was to show us what sin is, that none of us can keep the law, and that we need our Creator.
Today we believe every man has a right to his opinion and that every opinion is therefore right. How abserd!
Jesus Christ was never political or “PC”, and things like infanticide, immoral sexual behavior (aberrant, perverted, adultery, etc.), and other wickedness has always been abhorant to Him.