Jesus sermon from the Rev. Chris Hedges
“Jesus, if he lived in contemporary society, would be undocumented, because he was not a Roman citizen; he lived without rights, under Roman occupation,” adds the ScheerPost columnist. “Jesus was a person of color; the Romans were white. The Romans nailed Jesus and other people of color to crosses the same way we finish them off on death row, or gun them down in the streets by militarized police.
And the Romans didn’t care about Jesus’ religious importance; they killed him as an insurrectionist, as a revolutionary, because they feared the radicalism of the Christian gospel, which defied so much of Roman culture. “The Roman state looked at Jesus the same way the American state looked at Malcolm X or Martin Luther King,” he concludes. “And, as is true throughout history, prophets are often killed.”
Listen to the full
conversation between Scheer and Hedges as the host asks the reverend how to
recognize the misuse of Christianity, as well as how to directly challenge
immorality with one’s own actions, culminating in a personal and yet deeply
universal Christmas parable of Hedges’ own. …
https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/24/a-come-to-jesus-sermon-from-the-rev-chris-hedges/
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