Jesus: The First Anarchist
Jesus: The First Anarchist
an essay by George Stark
"In God We Trust," reads the American dollar, mouths the American government.
The bosses put their hands on bibles and take office, they put their hands on
bibles and swear to be truthful and honest and follow the teachings of the
people's God.
But are they following God's will? Have they ever been?
JESUS: AN ANARCHIST?
Throughout history Jesus Christ has been regarded as a revolutionary, but an
anarchist?
Yes, the answer. As time has passed and covered the once passionate spirit in
commonality, however, Jesus' true meaning has been lost in Sundays and
collection baskets. Jesus' true meaning is that of the anarchist.
"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a
needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God," said Jesus to his
disciples in one of many stories in which he shunned wealth and society's view
of 'success'. We see in the story of the poor widow's......
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