Barky's apostates play the Jesus card.

Wow. The pods are nuts. The new meme is Jesus was a community organizer. And Pontius Pilot was a Governor. Also, in case you missed it, Buddha was a U.S. Senator, Moses was the President of the Harvard Law Review, and Zoroaster was the Democratic nominee in B.C. 144.

The fabulous actress and political idiot Susan Sarandon blithely repeated this remark and then blithely moved on. It apparently started on an Obama blog or from a POD on the floor of the House - does it matter? Is their a discernible difference other than one has chairs and one doesn't? Tom Brokaw, no doubt upset that Mr. Chicago is not doing so well, saw fit to bring this ridiculous yapping point up to Giuliani.

What does this freakishly stupid talking point mean? In the shallow brain gym where Matt Damon and Susan Sarandon exercise their political muscles, I think it means Obama is Jesus and Palin is Pontius Pilot. Other than the truly rotten theology of high priestess Sarandon...it is remarkably bad politics. Whatever one thinks about Jesus approximately 5 gajillion voters have slotted him in as their Lord and Saviour. Having Jesus compared to Obama, and worse, downgrading him to "community organizer" goes over with many Christian folks like a loud fart in a stuck elevator. Let's see the Obama people think my Saviour lead voter registration drives...
There goes another million votes. Give or take.

Now, the fishes and loaves may have been the world's first food bank. But I am not sure I'd say Jesus organized it. He just sort of created a bunch of fish sandwiches one afternoon - this being his prerogative as the Son of God. It's not like it happened again at dinner time.

As for the half ass insulting theology...I suppose in a sense one could read the New Testament and even the Gnostic gospels and come away with "Hey, that Jesus guy gathered a community. He sort of organized those 12 guys and one of them started a church!" But if that is all one comes away, one is an idiot.

In no particular order ( I wish no offense.) I'd say from my very lay perspective "community organizer" does not rate a mention on Jesus's resume.Jesus's resume looks something like this:

Carpenter, itinerant preacher, healer, miracle worker, Son of God, redeemer, occasional rabble rouser, dinner host, teacher specializing in parables, willing martyr, sometime status quo upsetter, sometime staus quo champion (Give Cesar what is Cesar's), Man with ability to both raise the dead and come back from it, metaphysician, gadfly, and finally: one of the most interesting people to ever live.

Of that list only itinerant preacher is something BHO might qualify for. But only when he's using his pretend southern accent at a black church.

As a person who is forever trying to circle closer to the God of my understanding I suppose I should be offended by the promotion Obama gets with this meme and the demotion Jesus gets...but...really...I've been studying Obama all year and tonight my disgust is tapped out.

Next week: Obama parts the waters of Lake Michigan and conjures 3000 hoagies out of thin air - and as a special treat he'll turn your diet cokes into apple martinis!