The Anti-Manichaeist

Thanks to Jesus Politics for this prophetic polemic by Rick Mercier.
my favorite paragraph:

Jesus was quite a troublemaker. In fact, I’m thinking the Bush administration would have a special place for Jesus were the swarthy Nazarene to take up his ministry today in the U.S. of A.–in a cell with other Middle Eastern men awaiting deportation.

When I visited Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis a couple of weeks back, I was pleasantly surprised that, for sunday school, they had a lawyer describing the US’s extreme denial of rights to swarthy-looking, middle-eastern types at Guantanamo Bay. In retrospect, it was somewhat tragic that the lawyer dealt with the subject with the language of ahistorical Economics, not faith. He appealed to the cost of our actions and did not point out how the historical Yeshua would have fit in perfectly with those whom we treated so unjustly.

dlw