USA Today has an article titled: Could you live like Jesus for a year? The Rev. Ed Dobson decided to devote a year to living like Jesus after reading “The Year of Living Biblically,” A.J. Jacobs’ best-selling account of obeying Bible commands as literally as possible. If a non-religious Jew could do it, Dobson decided, so could a practicing Christian. His conclusion? Being Jesus is tough.

What I found interesting was this:

The retired megachurch pastor and one-time architect of the religious right has spent the last year trying to eat, pray, talk and even vote as Jesus would.

So who did he vote for?

Jesus’ troubling teachings influenced him to vote for Barack Obama — his first vote for a Democrat for president. Though disagreeing with Obama on abortion, he said, “I felt, as an individual, he was closer to the spirit of Jesus’ teachings than anyone else. (Obama) was a community organizer, so he was into the poor, the marginalized, the oppressed, which Jesus is very much into.”

Finally, in Dobsons word:

If you get serious about the Bible, it will really mess you up.

Very interesting article, very interesting path on behalf of Dobson and most interesting the vote. You had Bible Spice preaching up a storm, you had the “Maverick” also trying to stand by the Religious Right and here is the conclusion that Dobson came to, “Jesus was very much into the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed.” Has he perhaps managed to point out the PHARISEES of our time?

So the Holy See announced yesterday that they will not follow Italian law. I wonder if this is following scripture? I mean does the bible say anything about government? Order? or how about, Submission to Authority?

Throughout history, the Vatican has had some kind of deals made with FASCISTS. Mousullini and Franco to mention two. The Vatican gets power and authority from them, the Vatican endorses them, and then looks the other way when people are killed. Perhaps this is what they are looking for, some kind of deal? All of a sudden he has been on a rampage about the culture and how it is failing, specifically against homosexuality. Perhaps he wants to exterminate us all?

Now my question is, what are the rest of the Catholic Church around the world supposed to do? Are they not a church of order? Shouldn’t the rest of them follow the Holy See’s lead?

I wonder if the Holy See is familiar with Romans 13:1-7:

13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

How did he come to this decision? Did God send him an e-mail? Did God call him? I mean, I would like to see the e-mail God sent him with this order. Perhaps if it was a phone call, the Holy See was wearing that heavy looking hat and misunderstood HIM?

God is a God of order, and this to me sounds like ANARCHY.