What would Jesus Do…?

Arianna Huffington acrimoniously asks “What would Jesus do… with Tom Delay?” and then fatuously answers her own question:

Would Jesus strong-arm lobbyists to pay for his golfing trip to St. Andrew’s in Scotland? Would Jesus let a lobbyist pay for him to stay at the Bethlehem — I mean, London — Four Seasons?

Would Jesus, were he to smoke, and were he to be smoking on federal property, and were he asked politely not to, then reply: “I am the federal government.”

Would Jesus say, “Judges need to be intimidated. They need to uphold the Constitution… We’re going to go after them in a big way.”

If DeLay and his pious pals had been around for the Sermon on the Mount, perhaps the most famous line about humility ever spoken would have been given a rewrite:

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth… unless the pushy hire Jack Abramoff at 750 shekels an hour; then the meek (and the Indians) are screwed.”

Oh, why not? I’ll have a go at it. Of course, I’ll just use one example – actual words of Jesus – as He might have responded to Arianna Huffington and her rock-wielding circle of friends:

If any of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.(John 8:7 NIV)