Poll: If Jesus ran for president, would you vote for him?

[FieryTrainwreck]

To answer your question no. If Jesus was real he may be a good moral leader but not a leader of nations.

I think that's the saddest thing I've ever seen. I can't imagine a more succinct condemnation of our times or maybe even our species.

 

[MR T3D]

A real Jesus for president?

an immortal, near-Omnipotent being running a country?

I don't even believe in him and I know that he'd be damn good.

 

[Vykrel]

maybe. but if he would follow the Bible to the letter..... fuck NO

 

[General_Beef]

Jesus is less qualified for the job than Sarah Palin.

 

[PurePareidolia]

I think not.
Given all I know about him is a hardly reliable 2000 year old account written by a bunch of people who worshipped the sea he stood on, I can't really form any opinions about his character. I would have to see that he was capable of a rational, secular government, not to mention know his actual stances on issues before I could even consider him. For that matter I would find it difficult to believe he wasn't some weirdo claiming to be Jesus rather than the genuine article, given how patently absurd a man dying and resurrecting, then flying into the sky and returning to earth to run for president 2000 years later in a society he never knew existed is.
Anyway, he strikes me as the type to just institute a theocracy, rather than allowing himself to be elected. In fact I think were it America he'd have lot of pressure to do just that.

 

[HasimirFenring]

I am not a religious man but I'd vote for him. As far as I know he's an actual good person and that's a seemingly rare trait among politicians.

 

[zega frega omega]

People, it doesn't matter what your religion is, it matters on the character running for president. That said, I'd vote for him, since he seems like a nice guy who listens to the people.

 

[Jackhorse]

No idea whether anyone above has said this but did no one else get a mental of tyrannical jesus in a mech suit saying "Give unto Ceaser what is Ceasers and give unto God what is God's. Give it all unto ME! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

No? Has no one said this? That would be my reason for the no vote

 

[Thaa'ir]

No...I believe too strongly in secularism. Religion corrupts the state and the state corrupts religion.

Still...if we were to cut out the Old Testament and scrape that into the dustbin, I might be tempted.

Just want to point out, scraping the majority of the Old Testament into the dust bin was pretty much the whole point of the New Testament. 96% of it is just historical context for the actual important bits >.>

OP: Yes. To echo many other people here, Jesus did not think gays were bad. In fact, there is even a portion of the Bible where he speaks on how anyone who calls his brother a fool is committing a grievous sin and should be ashamed. But there are many scholars who notice the original Greek word there would be more accurately translated as "effeminate" or "homosexual", so basically Jesus was calling out homophobes on their BS a couple thousand of years before anyone else would get down to business.

I understand that was the point of the New Testament...I used to be a very deeply religious Christian, and I, along with most of religious Christians I knew, just looked askance at the Old Testament and looked to the New Testament for moral guidance. My priest even said: "If we listened to the Old Testament, we can kill babies."

One of my friends put it well. The Old Testament is historical context. The problem is that a LOT of Christians don't seem to get that...so they form a Christianity based on laws and anger and damnation rather than love and sacrifice. I suppose you're always going to have a lot of people like that regardless, but cutting out the Old Testament entirely would certainly remove any chance they have of legitimizing their beliefs.

 

[killakan11]

as much as i'd like to see jesus clean up America, he would fail in terms of the economy, lobbying and he would put us in a bad place with some less than god loving places cough *Iraq* cough cough

 

[Craig Cameron]

I was going to post saying "I'm not American but I would have a problem voting for a fictional character" but apparently my opinion is trolling so I'll just say that the book he was in seemed to portray him as a person with a terrible judge of character, a lack of financial skills and spawned the largest terrorist organisation in the history of the world, The Roman Catholic Church.

So no I don't Jesus would make even a mediocre president and would likely do a lot more harm than good.

 

[Tdc2182]

Only if he is an independent.

Even then, probably wouldn't be bothered to vote anyways.

I'm with this.

I'd have to see his campaign plan.

 

[Tdc2182]

largest terrorist organisation in the history of the world, The Roman Catholic Church.

Uhh...

What?

That dun be ignant dawg.

 

[Labcoat Samurai]

Mod Edit - Stating Jesus is a fictional character does nothing for the OP but does become trolling.

Isn't the original post basically trolling, then? I know I personally wouldn't be afraid to joke about him being fictional among my friends, so the only case for it being trolling is that it's likely to provoke responses.... which is what this thread did anyway. Certainly you can't argue it's off topic.... I think you can run the risk of going so far in trying to make a forum a friendly place that you also make it a boring place. I'd err on the side of letting people speak freely, and only crack down on those who are clearly abusing that privilege.

 

[Nova Helix]

To answer your question no. If Jesus was real he may be a good moral leader but not a leader of nations.

I think that's the saddest thing I've ever seen. I can't imagine a more succinct condemnation of our times or maybe even our species.

How so? He would have no political experience, no international relations experience, no business experience, no qualifications to lead the country. He also insisted that you give away all of your earthly possessions, not what I want leading the country.


Also he would spend the first year in office saying nothing but "HOLY SHIT AIRPLANES"

 

[Bento Box]

This country has separation of church and state EXACTLY for this reason, and none other. Our founding fathers were smart as hell and clairvoyant, seeing this eventuality long ago.

Actually you're wrong. The separation of church and state was originally to protect religion from politics, not the other way around.

Fair enough.

So, once a religion injects itself into politics, do we just protect all the *rest* of the religions from the new religio-politic-- wait.

I guess that wall isn't one way after all!

That said, no, I would not vote for Jeusus. The man is against any semblance of a free market (even going so far as to suggest that we not keep savings accounts), and also against looking toward the future. I cannot support that kind of narrow-minded, economy-crippling platform.

 

[moose_man]

If Jesus is as awesome as the bible says he is, hell yeah.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Maybe.

If he's truly a kind and fair person, who is concerned with what is right, then yes.

If he's the same jesus who said it's a okay to hate anybody who is diffrerent etc, then no.

 

[TheGuiggleMonster]

No his views are too out-of-date.

 

[newwiseman]

A Mediterranean Jewish Peasant o.0? For President of America? Never happen.

I'd have to see his birth certificate for one thing and then still vote for the other guy. Jesus would likely want to take away abortion rights, get rid of the military, and stop the death penalty.

Although, what he would do for health care and welfare would probably make him the greatest president ever.

But still no, he doesn't even speak English.