The Bit Maelstrom: Dumb Things Seen While Looking At Incoming Links

Monday, May 19, 2008

Was Jesus a Liberal?

Here's a good sign you need a little perspective in your life: You feel a need to cast everything in modern political terms.

Old IronMay 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Of course someone has to take a historic figure and paint that person with the same brush strokes that they themselves have used to create their own self-image.

Lovely.
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Trooper YorkMay 19, 2008 at 10:01 AM
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Trooper YorkMay 19, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Well Jesus was cetainly a liberal. But Matty and Felipe are very conservative. So they have all the bases covered so to speak.
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blakeMay 19, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Heheh--hey, you're right, Troop, maybe I was jumping to conclusions.

Maybe it was all about the political breakdown of hispanics!

I knew a German lady (who taught German here) who was absolutely shocked when she met her first "Jesus". They don't do that in the Fatherland.
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vbspursMay 19, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Blake, that's the case with my German-born mother.

When we lived in Brazil, our first condo handyman was Jesus. It's Zheh-zoos in Portuguese.

But instead of pronouncing it in Portuguese, I guess he played a joke with her and used the English pronunciation version, Gee-sus.

(She didn't speak Portuguese, and they interacted in broken English -- there were a lot of foreigners in the bldg)

My mother could never make herself to say, "Jesus, could you help me unclog the toilet?", etc.

So she called him Jesse. ;)

And thanks for the perspective. Very timely.

Cheers,
Victoria
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