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2006-10-19 22:13:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's hard to transfer what Jesus taught in that day to present times, politically speaking.
Example; Because he saved the woman caught in the act of adultery, does that mean he would be against ALL death penalty cases?
And, if you noticed, while he saved her, he didn't back down on saying she was wrong. ("Go & sin no more.") I can imagine liberals screaming, "Who are you telling her what to do with her own body!"
He obviously wanted the poor to be taken care of, but does that mean he would have wanted the government to be in charge of it? And 50% of the rich man's income being confiscated to pay for it? That sounds more like Robin Hood than Jesus Christ!
He said you have to pay your taxes, but would he have voted for a politician who advocated fixing things by higher taxes?
He taught obedience to the government, but does that mean he wanted a big government?
I can't imagine Jesus being anything but disgusted by mid to late- term abortions, but the Bible is not specific on the subject. The issue of "when life begins" would have to be answered, first.
2006-10-21 18:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by Smart Kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, He could be a liberal if you look at all the times He fed hungry people and showed concern for the poor. Or He could be a conservative because of His moral outrage over sin. He could've been a liberal because He hung out with all of the downtrodden, marginal people that most conservatives probably wouldn't care about. But He could be a conservative because of His insistence that God's truth is absolute. Bottom line, He's both. And neither. Jesus should frustrate people on both ends of the political spectrum, but both camps are so busy claiming Him for themselves that they're not stopping to think about the big picture of everything He said and did that should tick off anyone who insists that Jesus should be one label or another. The first link below is a project I'm working on to answer exactly the question you asked. :-)
2006-10-19 22:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was liberal in the sense that he wanted society to help care for each other (social services, charity, welfare, etc), but a conservative in the sense of religious practice (he overturns the tables at the temple and gets angry that it is being misused, he talks on numerous times about the corruption of the priests and how they have forgotten the proper rites and rituals, etc). He is a liberal in the sense that he didn't seem too concerned with the larger traditions that had become religiously indoctrinated that divided people and caused one group of people to think of themselves as being more religious than another group simply because they observed more of these traditions. Yet at the same time conservative in the sense that he still felt the need to honor certain holidays with the prescribed traditions (like Passover for example).
He was very much a mixture of both (like most people). He was a social liberal but a religious conservative (meaning he wanted society at large to treat each other equally and to work for the common good of everyone in society while at the same time he wanted to basic religious rites and rituals to be preserved and not corrupted into cultural traditions, politics, or business and thereby misused against the people and society). Sounds like most of the people I have met and know (who either identify themselves as liberal or conservative).
2006-10-19 23:05:31 · answer #3 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I'm aware, Jesus' only recorded comment on the politics of the day was to say "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's". There are other indications, though, that he disliked the Conservative factions in Judaism, he was against commercialism in the Temple but otherwise considered himself a citizen of Judah and a Galileean.
Had he lived in America today (I am assuming that you are speaking of the American meaning of Liberal/Conservative which is quite different from the British), I doubt that he would have voted but he would certainly have paid his taxes. I think he would have abhorred any classification into one or other party or faction, not because he would consider himself not to belong to the world but because any 'label' tends to mask the truth of a person's convictions.
One should be careful not to label his political leanings with reference to his spiritual mission - as I see some answers here attempting to do. The quotation I give above clearly states that politics and spirituality are separate!
2006-10-19 22:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by pica_septima 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus wasn't a "liberal" in the modern-day sense.
Isaiah 32:5 - "The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful."
2006-10-19 22:20:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Probably more akin to a Communist since He advocated sharing, healing, abundant life for everyone and the promise of eternity in paradise.
2006-10-19 22:14:47 · answer #6 · answered by crowbird_52 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he was a consevative the ritch get ritcher look at all the money the churches have and thay never give to the poor but thay do cover up there podophiles
2006-10-20 00:17:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a Socialist. His message was directed toward everyone. but it gave the poor and disenfranchised hope that life would get better.
2006-10-19 22:17:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think Jesus was a Liberal kind of guy. He did preach "love all, serve all"
2006-10-19 22:16:40 · answer #9 · answered by essexsrose 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he he
Neither it is a monarchy. Jesus is a King not a politician.
2006-10-19 22:47:01 · answer #10 · answered by fire 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋