Jesus Christ for President!

What would happen if the President of the United States resigned this afternoon and Jesus took his place immediately?

To begin with, he would end the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan immediately, giving genuine aid to the people of those countries, without expecting oil or anything else in return.

Would there be a repeat of the Miracle performed at the Wedding at Cana with a twist- instead of turning water into wine, would he turn water into gasoline and heating oil? I think perhaps this would be an unlikely short-term solution. Rather, Jesus in the White House would immediately issue an executive order reversing the suppression of alternative fuel technologies that Big Oil and the auto makers have kept from the public for over 50 years! What a blessing for the environment, as well as those struggling with ever-higher oil prices.

Would Jesus revive the Welfare State, the Great Society type programs which were intended to help the poor get back on their feet, but instead spawned an entire culture of dependency? I think not, as such programs in the long run cause harm to society. Jesus might stop the globalization trend, resulting in the exportation of American jobs overseas, where work can be performed more cheaply.

Congress would no longer be receiving pay increases. In fact, members of Congress might very well become elected volunteers, serving without compensation. Since most of the members of Congress are millionaires anyway, the ending of their salaries would not really hurt them- just a drop in the bucket.

What about the controversy over Abortion? I dont believe Jesus would endorse abortion on demand, but I also believe he would strike down any laws which would force a woman to carry a pregnancy when her very life is endangered. As evidenced by how he treated his blessed Mother and Mary Magdalene, and counter to the cultural norms of the time, Jesus truly loved women. Jesus as our President would create a culture in which women were honored and revered.

The event where Jesus wreaks havoc at the Temple in Jerusalem and expels the money changers and those who sell religious paraphernalia teaches us that if Jesus of Nazareth was anything, he was an extraordinary friend of the working person, the down- trodden, whose advocacy on their behalf so infuriated the ultra-Conservative religious and political leaders of his day. He was not as the Neoconservatives who have entrenched themselves in American government portray him- no, he was quite the opposite! In fact the members of the Religious Right who use the name of Jesus are very much wolves in sheeps clothing, like those money changers and clerics of long ago who battled this revolutionary prophet from the day he opened his mouth, and who plotted to destroy Him.

It is doubtful if any man was ever more misunderstood by the people of his own time than Jesus of Nazareth. Certainly no man was ever more grossly misrepresented by succeeding generations, and especially by those who professed to be his friends and followers.
Wallace D. Wattles

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