New Scientist asks how Jesus would vote in the upcoming American presidential elections. You can read more here.
Closer to home, I wonder how Jesus might react to the British scene. We can eliminate all thought of Him voting for the more extreme parties on both left and right. He loved his enemies but that doesn't mean He would have voted for them. I do wonder whether He would have voted at all, though. He was clearly an activist through and through - and yet, these days, there doesn't seem to be much room on either wing of the political spectrum for more than door-knockers and envelope-stuffers. Hardly the kind of thing that would have motivated a revolutionary individual like the Son of God.
So would Jesus have been a blogger? I wonder. A worldwide audience. A manifesto in favour of society and solidarity. Love and goodness. A touch of discipline and more than a smidgen of redemption.
We could all do worse.
I suppose the questions really are as follows: if Jesus chose to be a blogger today, what sort of blogger would Jesus be?
Would He be a socialist blogger?
What sort of adepts would He acquire?
And would He be allowed to blog?
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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I don't think Jesus would have written the blog. According to scripture he wrote on just one occasion, and that was in the sand.
However I'm fairly certain one of the disciples would have kept a blog. Much of the Acts of the Apostles reads like a team blog.
That's an interesting observation. And before the advent of blogs, doers generally did rather more often than they wrote about what they did. But perhaps a blog is the modern-day equivalent - the virtual equivalent - of preaching face-to-face. We used to live in a culture which learned by listening and speaking. I'm sure we now spend far more of our time writing and reading. It's a more reflective medium, even though - paradoxically - it's also instantaneous. I just get the feeling the tools of this online world would have been too good an opportunity to give up on for someone as interested in communication as Jesus clearly was.
The Acts of the Apostles is not a teanm blog. It is eyewitness testimony and reportage all written by one man, Luke.
It is likely that Jesus would not have blogged. The argument from His never having written is sound.
The blog is today's street-preaching.
You seem to want to limit Jesus to what He did in the past. If He manifested Himself physically today, surely he would communicate in the language - and technologies - of the people. That's why I think Jesus would be a democratic socialist and would use those communication tools that reached out to as wide a population as possible. Just because He didn't write in the past doesn't mean he couldn't write in the future. The challenge modern doers have is to have time to do and write at the same time. Blogging facilitates that urge.
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