Jesus didn’t say yes to everyone. I mean Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it is not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia … I’m just saying that, look, Jesus was the best man who ever lived but that doesn’t mean that he said yes to everyone, that he was permissive to everything, and this idea that Jesus would say to every person who wanted to come to Australia, “Fine”, the door is open, I just don’t think is necessarily right. But let’s not verbal Jesus. I mean, he’s not here to defend himself.
Tony Abbott, conservative Christian, leader of the Liberal party and the federal Opposition (HT to the Vulgar Marxist)
9 April, 2010
Quote of the day: Jesus and Asylum Seekers
Posted by stalinsmoustache under politics | Tags: asylum seekers, Tony Abbott, xenophobia |[6] Comments
9 April, 2010 at 9:09 pm
i also love the preceding few lines where he actually says:
“Jesus wouldn’t put his hand up to be the leader of the liberal party, or the labor party for that matter!”
…thus being both prophetic (the smartest thing he has ever said actually) AND damning himself in one fell swoop
9 April, 2010 at 9:34 pm
OMG, does that mean he is not doing God’s will by leading the Liberals?
9 April, 2010 at 9:49 pm
As Comrade Muntzer says, “The tares have to be torn out of the vineyard of God at harvest-time”
9 April, 2010 at 9:33 pm
separation of church and
state, anyone?
10 April, 2010 at 12:31 am
I much prefer to roll everything:
“the criticism of Heaven turns into the criticism of Earth, the criticism of religion into the criticism of law, and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics.” (Marx)
no separation. all go to the threshing floor i say.
10 April, 2010 at 12:55 am
ah, the inspiration for my titles in the Criticism of Heaven and Earth series …