"Vigilante Jesus"
May. 11th, 2005 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythI was reading a thread over at http://www.crookedtimber.org and one of the commenters summed up a bunch of the current trends of fundamentalist reactionary Christianity in the US as "wanting a Vigilante Jesus". Which seems fairly accurate, and also sounds like a band name, or a comic.
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Hey, what do you want, it's my LJ, it's just fractured reflections of my brain, whatever grabs my attention long enough for me to post on it, whether it's a short link or a three page rant.
Quotes, Mindscribbles
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Date: 2005-05-11 12:33 am (UTC)...to sweep the moneychangers out of the temple!
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Date: 2005-05-11 08:11 am (UTC)Though Biblically, he was never really a vigilante...more often than not he was a nonviolent protestor (And with good reason back then!). It was his buddies that got overzealous from time to time and got all pissy with their local government.
*reads link*