Tea party activist: ‘Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven’ over pope’s criticism of capitalism'

[stopbush]

172. Jesus never called himself a king?

Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” - John 18:36

Notice, Jesus didn't say "my father's kingdom," or "my father's servants."

Nope, it's HIS kingdom and HIS servants. In fact, Jesus here refers to his disciples as "my servants."

Who has servants in a kingdom? That would be the king.

I understand where you're coming from in your post, especially the special dispensation we allow for always assuming that Jesus is meek and loving. Thus we were all indoctrinated as children.

But the Bible tells us a different story about a Jesus who fashioned a scourge and beat his fellow human beings with it, a megalomaniac who demanded fealty from everyone: "if anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire (the lake of fire), and they are burned" - John 15:6-8.

This is the Jesus who called the Caananite woman "a dog" in Matthew.

And, there's this:

"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison,
and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or
a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of
the least of these, you did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."
- Matthew 25:41- 46

You have your version of Jesus - nicely supported by your interpretation as displayed in your post - and then there's the version of Jesus that comes through his own words and actions. I really don't see why you would assume that such a person's heavenly kingdom would treat all of its inhabitants equally or fairly.

And that doesn't even get into how a loving god could condemn whole segments of frail humanity - billions and billions of "souls" - to everlasting torture because, what? They passed a homeless person on the street and failed to help them?