Vetting the Pre-Gospel Jesus

Vetting Jesus
the Political Satire for the Obama Skeptics

In NO WAY is this to compare the personage of Obama to the one many hold as the Christ. But since the integrity of Obama's message has been questioned due to his past associations, then we could investigate the satire of vetting Christ's childhood and adult associations before his ministry began.
In the Gospel Christ spoke to this when he was asked about John the Baptist. Christ chided the present generation that dismissed John for the idosyncracies of his ministry out in the wilderness, while at the same time deriding Jesus for his associations with wine bibbers and publicans.

Let us delve further into the associations of this "Prince of Peace". Who were those who spoke disparingly about the Samaratans and other non-Jews. Who were those of his associates that cursed and damned the Romans or still held bitterness and resentment against the Egyptians. And who were those who had heard about the Zoarastrians of Persia and their pagan dependencies on the stars. Or those Hellenistic heathen-Greeks whom the Maccabees defeat of them is gloriously celebrated in the Festival of Lights. Those slaves and people from the Dark Continent with their equally pagan and heathen ways received derogoatory commentaries, most likely, in light of the fervent religous traditions of the Jewish people.
What of all those groupings of people in that maelstrom of cultural and political dynamics of Judea at the time of Augustus and Tiberius Caesar? Were his rabbis and scholars men of temperance and rectitude. Were they people of passion and indignation for their people, their beliefs, and their culture.

How could Jesus be believed that he could rise above all that was the status quo of his time. Perhaps Judas' prime motivation was knowing the mileu, organic and intellectual, from which Jesus came. Thus, Judas cynically believed that Jesus was capable of being the sword of retribution that Israel had been waiting for as their Messiah.
Such cynicism and skepticism is age old as our hopes are awashed in our fears and doubt in crawfish like syndrome of dragging others down to the level of our limitations so that we can feel justified in the darkness of our own inertia to improbable idealisms of change.

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It will take the courageous few to undo the degradations of the boldy callous

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