politicized religion

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/jesus-the-homeless-sculpture-rejected-catholic-churches_n_3085584.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jesus-homeless-finds-home-article-1.1321038



whilst reading the article it talked about how the sculpture could not find a home and was rejected by some churches as being controversial or to vague

well last time we checked there was no official picture of jesus only artistic impressions and artistic twists

but what also came to mind is that people were not used to this kind of portrayal
and this seems to have motivated some churches against the sculpture

mark 2 v 17
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

New Living Translation (©2007)
When Jesus heard this, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor--sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."

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matthew 19 v 24

Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy

matthew 6 v 19

which was confirmed when i told them jesus was for the poor 

he ate and conversed with sinners 

the people at the bottom of social ladders and castes

and was against materialism

and even pointed out that it will make it harder for you to get to heaven

yet there are some churches whose sermons revolve around the monetary issue

and the divisions in christianity have lead some to have skipped out on their history and how political and powerful it was 

and it was for the opposite of who you picture as faces of it now

with phrases as the meek shall inherit the earth 

got me thinking how many meek people do i find 

mattthew 18 v 21 to 22

²¹ Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

²² Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

with that much forgiving how could anyone wage war in the name of christianity

which brought me to the fact most people do not read 

i will leave you with this 

some may say blasphemy 

http://goodmenproject.com/in-good-faith/six-things-that-arent-literally-in-the-bible/

I hope to see these gangsters acting like teachers: aka prison is not the end

When some think of gangsters

this is what comes to mind^^

and some people brush all people who are in prison as gangsters or good for nothing

there are numerous films of different than your average ending up in prison


so i decided to find a number of people who went to prison or spent time in a cell


mlk spent time in a cell evidence of his mug shot but that has not diminished who or what he was

mandela spent time in prison yet went on to become a leader of a nation

also socrates was in prison yet that series of events went to spur on a movement
as well as a recount of the ordeal called the apology

yes that is right for those christians out there jesus went to prison or a cell
yet that was not the end of him or his legacy

and for some not as famous people

and he published his memoirs on the topic

that is right one of the most famous philosophers sartre was a prisoner

then there is wittgenstein
some call the father of logic the philosophical slash numerical  kind
one of the most famous intellectuals
and often labelled genius
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
this is his fabled masterpiece and here is a link to an excerpt of his life
http://www.wittgen-cam.ac.uk/biogre6.html


sade marquis de sade
intresting fact the word sadistic is homage to him
some of you are like what homage is that
but on another note there is a film about him i will review soon called

Quills (2000) - IMDb

leon trotsky 

a leader of the communistic rebellion before stalin and his memoirs can say the rest

lastly we get to malcolm x which i will cover in the next installation

honorable mentions

rosa parks

the catalyst or the straw that broke the camels back 

of the bus boycott

huey p newton

founding member of the black panther party 

whilst in their struggle for liberation 

they concocted the most dangerous of schemes

providing free meals for the kids in their community

paraphrased from documents of the president hoover

muhammad ali 

world famous boxer went to prison for not wanting to go to war

stripped off his title and managed to win it back

prison was not the end of him

Gandhi

we kinda know about this guy

so prison is not the end 

you may follow up on these people and 

conclude the duration and varying entries into prison life

and that some of them  immediately died in prison 

but this post is more than for the would be gangsters

because i am not glorifying prison

but challenging the view of prison being the end

for if we take muhammad ali 

he lost his title that he fought for 

and going to prison was harder than losing your morals and yourself 

fighting an injust war

and for some people aka the prisoners of war like sartre 

wittgenstein and co 

they may have been thinking i am not going to leave this place

and at sometimes in western history it would of been weaker of you shying away from prison

than going to it 

like mlk and mandela

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison

then there is this prison 

nicknamed the evin university for its number of intellectuals