Is that blasphemous? Or a compliment? What if the title had read ‘Mohammed was a Nazi’? Or a member of the BNP? Does anachronistic politicising serve any purpose?
Mehdi Hasan, the New Statesman’s Senior Editor (politics), certainly thinks so: to him, Jesus was ‘much more left-wing than the religious right likes to believe’.
.... In Christ (that is, in the Jesus of the New Testament, which Mr Hasan believes to be corrupt), there is neither political left nor right, but the consistent exhortation to all to recognise the rule of God in their lives and exalt righteousness in the nation.
That, Mr Hasan, may be the honest, sincere and noble pursuit of all believers, however they cast their vote. [Archbishop Cranmer] Read more
