2006-09-19 10:28:12 · 22 answers · asked by iamlaura2006 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope,neither.
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2006-09-19 10:32:33 · answer #1 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Nazarean was a brilliant political thinker and well before his time, "to turn the other cheek," is not as many would think a sign of humility but a passive demand for equality. What we see in the insights of this impoverished Galilean would have to wait until Karl Marx and European Social Reform until there was an equal on the political stage.
"If I feed the hungry, they call me a saint but if I ask why they have no food, they call me a communist."
Archbishop Oscar Romero
2006-09-19 10:33:02 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbi Yohanneh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was definitely a liberal for His day. A conservative would not have touched lepers, healed on Sunday, or corrected his peers so sharply.
But he was just applying the important principles from the Old Testament law to their lives.
1) love God (the first 4 commandments)
2) love people (the last 6 commandments).
2006-09-19 10:32:21 · answer #3 · answered by writ_rrr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not a politician. The people who crucified him were.
Jesus was beyond our modern definition of liberal and conservative. I know very devoted Christians who firmly sit on both sides of the political fence. Personally, I think that 'liberal' and 'conservative' have taken on the nature of proper nouns (like Bill and George) and lost any real descriptive value they ever possessed.
Xan Shui
Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man
2006-09-19 10:41:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is a member of the designers of life itself. We are in a fallen cursed state in this world. I don't think he's got a good platform here on earth. now universally speaking is a whole differant deal.
:)
GOD bless ya
2006-09-19 10:33:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a rebel, persecuted by big government for sharing hallucinagenic body oil. Definitely a neocon!
2006-09-19 10:30:25 · answer #6 · answered by AntiDisEstablishmentTarianism 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was definitely a liberal of the times, because pharasee was the conservative of the time. However, today conservatives are more Christlike than liberals, in my opinion.
2006-09-19 10:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by jchristop05 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No limo, no money, hung around with working folks, told people to pay their taxes, abhored violence, championed the poor - sounds like Cheney to me!
2006-09-19 10:31:09 · answer #8 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was Priest, Prince, and Prophet. He didn't have a lot of time left for politics.
2006-09-19 10:32:10 · answer #9 · answered by Robert L 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I understand Jesus' position correctly, he was a monarchist.
2006-09-19 10:29:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋