Quotations From Chairman Jesus Review

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(More customer reviews)Like the other two reviews, I remember reading this in those days. You have to understand the country was TOTALLY torn apart by the vietnam war in that era. To put the vietnam war in perspective, I was a little kid in fifth and sixth grade and every night I'd watch the "war news" at ten o'clock. I went all the way through school, graduated, and they were then trying to draft me and send me TO THAT SAME WAR. That's how long it went on.
One other anecdote--when I was in jr. high we had two young guys who were the football coaches. I remember sitting on a wall by the field and watching them run a football practice on a bright, autumn day. BOTH OF THOSE GUYS WERE DRAFTED AND KILLED IN VIETNAM. And that was in a small, obscure southern town. That's how many people were killed in vietnam.
What I remember about this book was it started with a poem writeen by daniel berrigan, a radical catholic priest who was a radical pacifist, radically antiwar. That aside, the poem blew me away. It was great.
This book is still relevant because of all the people who--God knows how--believe Jesus was a republican. I can only believe these blow-hards have never taken the time to sit down and read the New Testament. This was a man who told his disciples when they went out on a trip to carry the message to not even carry a coin purse. Not even a coin purse! He said to them, if you have an extra coat, give it to the poor. The body is more than clothes, life is more than food. Does that sound like a stock portfolio loving conservative republican to you?
These people only want the sanitized Jesus Christ, not that radically pacifist, radically anti-materialist who didn't even particularly have an interest in the rich, they were too far sunk in materialism he thought, almost a waste of time.
But please, don't take my word for it. Buy this or just read the four gospels of your local Gideon Bible. It's all in there in black and white. One other thing--Jesus wouldn't want you to spend three hundred bucks on this, there's a cheaper one offered here on amazon so keep poking around and find it.
by, now. And if you ever do meet this Jesus guy on the road don't expect to be comforted as much as disturbed by the encounter.

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