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26 Sep 2008, 6:45 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1L4eeu5KI[/youtube]

I laughed my ass off at the ending.



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26 Sep 2008, 6:51 pm

The narrator of this video has misunderstood and misrepresented all of his talking-points. And I know this guy's voice from other anti-Christian smear campaigns.



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26 Sep 2008, 6:53 pm

slowmutant wrote:
The narrator of this video has misunderstood and misrepresented all of his talking-points. And I know this guy's voice from other anti-Christian smear campaigns.

...It's satire, he's not making any points, he's just making fun of the propaganda our presidential candidates make up all the time, he's not attacking Jesus.



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26 Sep 2008, 6:55 pm

Jesus could not run for president of the United States, since He was born in Judea (or was it Israel ... ?).


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26 Sep 2008, 7:04 pm

At the time, it was the Roman province of Judea


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26 Sep 2008, 7:05 pm

Either way ... ancient history ...


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26 Sep 2008, 7:08 pm

We could amend the Constitution to let dead people run.


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26 Sep 2008, 7:13 pm

Sure. The American constitution is elastic enough to accomodate all kinds of bullsh*t.



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26 Sep 2008, 8:46 pm

Jesus also said "give unto Ceasar what is his"

so no tax reform eh?


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26 Sep 2008, 9:14 pm

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26 Sep 2008, 10:20 pm

z0rp wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
The narrator of this video has misunderstood and misrepresented all of his talking-points. And I know this guy's voice from other anti-Christian smear campaigns.

...It's satire, he's not making any points, he's just making fun of the propaganda our presidential candidates make up all the time, he's not attacking Jesus.


No, I think he's attacking Jesus. I'm not stupid.



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26 Sep 2008, 10:30 pm

Sounds like instead of likening Obama to Jesus they're likening Jesus to Obama.

Whott a tweeest!!



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26 Sep 2008, 10:33 pm

slowmutant wrote:
z0rp wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
The narrator of this video has misunderstood and misrepresented all of his talking-points. And I know this guy's voice from other anti-Christian smear campaigns.

...It's satire, he's not making any points, he's just making fun of the propaganda our presidential candidates make up all the time, he's not attacking Jesus.


No, I think he's attacking Jesus. I'm not stupid.


I think he's safe on that, he took it far enough off the rail that its a complete and obvious joke. Not sure even a high school anarchist could take it literally.

The talking points in the video as well point the commentator out as a likely conservative.



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26 Sep 2008, 10:35 pm

Well, for better or worse he wasn't born a United States citizen, so no odds of that one ever coming to fruition.



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26 Sep 2008, 10:37 pm

slowmutant wrote:
z0rp wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
The narrator of this video has misunderstood and misrepresented all of his talking-points. And I know this guy's voice from other anti-Christian smear campaigns.

...It's satire, he's not making any points, he's just making fun of the propaganda our presidential candidates make up all the time, he's not attacking Jesus.


No, I think he's attacking Jesus. I'm not stupid.

He attacks Jesus and Christianity in his other videos, but in this one he's attacking the way our candidates can misrepresent what the other candidate is saying and use it in advertisements for their campaigns. For example in one of McCain's ads he says Obama is teaching children about sex when in reality all Obama was saying was he wanted to educate children about what's 'good touch' and 'bad touch', not sex. He was just getting at the way they'd probably do it even if Jesus ran.



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26 Sep 2008, 10:42 pm

All this assumes Jesus would need to run for public office upon his return to Earth. We already know how he felt about politics, politicians, and bureacracy. Here in the 21st century, therre are pharisees everywhere.