{"id":3006,"date":"2012-06-21T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2012-06-21T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:41:35","slug":"jesus-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Jesus For President!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Jessica over at the FriendlyAtheist<\/a> wrote about how there is a crazy website<\/a> promoting a write-in campaign for Jesus. I thought it would be fun to talk about all the reasons why Jesus can\u2019t be President.<\/p>\n

For starters, it is unlikely that Jesus was even a real person. Despite even Bart Ehrman\u2019s claim that Jesus was a real person he has stated in a recent debate:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the entire first Christian Century, Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s assume that Jesus was a real person. He still couldn\u2019t be President on account of the fact that he would be dead!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say for the sake of argument that Jesus lives forever as the Holy Spirit. According to the Christian \u201cscholars\u201d Jesus was born about 4 CE and died in the year 33 CE. Let\u2019s do the math there. If we carry the 5, we are left with Jesus\u2019s human age at 29 years. In order to be President, you must be 35 years of age. So Jesus isn\u2019t old enough to be President.<\/p>\n

Okay, you want to start at his birth age and continue it to today? Fine! What country was Jesus born in? Oh, he wasn\u2019t born in the United States? Well guess what? He can\u2019t be President of the United States unless he was born here. Just ask Donald Trump. I want to see his birth certificate<\/a>!<\/p>\n

With all that said, I want Bill Keller of votingforjesus.com<\/a> to go forward. Please, tell all your Christian right friends to vote for Jesus. Direct them to the website<\/a>. While I have made it clear that I don\u2019t think Obama is nearly as progressive as I like, I want to see Christians wasting their vote on an imaginary candidate that even fictionally can\u2019t hold office. I must admit though that I secretly want Jesus to win so that when he fails to come to the swearing in ceremony we can all point and laugh. More evidence that God is imaginary; he wouldn\u2019t even let his son take office.<\/p>\n

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