Wednesday, July 15, 2015

✝️ WTF Would Jesus Do?: Prophets, Pragmatism, and the Spirit of the Age



🧢 WWJD Revisited: From Bracelets to Battle Cries

  • Remember the WWJD bracelets?
  • A good idea, meant to keep moral reflection close at hand.
  • But the fad faded, overtaken by “promise rings” and commercialized virtue.

In today’s world of controversy and adversity, perhaps it’s time to ask a harder question:

🔥 WHAT THE FUCK WOULD JESUS DO?

  • What the fuck would Buddha do?
  • What the fuck would Muhammad do?
  • What the fuck would Confucius say?

Do we wield swords with hilts—or only blades that cut our own hands?

⚔️ War, Peace, and Profit

  • Isaiah: Turn swords into ploughshares
  • Joel: Turn ploughshares into swords
  • Ecclesiastes: There is a time for every purpose under Heaven
  • Qur’an: War and peace are justified by conditions

Discernment is rare. War and peace are often dictated by monetary profit, not moral clarity.

🧺 Jesus and the Moneychangers

JESUS WOULD OVERTHROW THE TABLES

  • He would appear as a thief in the night
  • The status quo would see him as a threat
  • He would reject:
  • “It’s not good enough”
  • “You don’t understand the business”
  • “We’ll discredit you”
  • “Yes... but”
  • “As long as the change doesn’t apply to me”

JESUS WOULD HEAR NONE OF IT

🕰️ The Same Old Song and Dance

  • The rhetoric changes, but the resistance to truth remains.
  • The zeitgeist—the spirit of the age—has paved the way for:
  • Monarchical Federalism
  • Institutional stagnation
  • Economic conquest

👹 The Son of Perdition and the Seeds of Demise

JESUS WOULD LET THOSE RESPONSIBLE PERISH BY SUICIDE

  • The return of Christ-like clarity requires the rise of its opposite:
  • The Son of Perdition
  • One who knows salvation but denies it
  • One who pays his own debt rather than accept grace

The usurpers of the ideal state carry within them the seeds of their own destruction.

🤝 For He That Is Not Against Us Is On Our Part

“Forbid him not... For he that is not against us is on our part.” — Mark 9:38–40

  • Those who stand for truth must be allowed to labor.
  • Their fruits will reveal their nature.
  • Let the undesirable grow alongside the good—until the harvest.

🧠 Wisdom Across Traditions

  • Confucius: Friendship with the upright, sincere, and observant is advantageous.
  • Buddha: Follow the one who reproves you as a guide to hidden treasure.
  • Qur’an: God loves the equitable.

JESUS WOULD BE PRAGMATIC

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