"Legend has it that two thousand years ago President Bush's favorite philosopher dodged the treason bullet by giving a group of Pharisees his honest opinion on the separation of church and state." 
 
Say whuh? Last I remember, the best remembered part of that story was how the Pharisees nailed him for something anyway.  
 
Now what was it...oh yeah, I remember, it was him giving his honest opinion that the existing government and clergy had gotten corrupt and stupid, using 'God' as a weapon of convenience with which to bludgeon the masses into fear and compliance, putting tradition above sense.  
 
Well...and for fixing things that the rest of the clergy either couldn't or wouldn't. (would the lame or the possessed still have been lame or possessed if the old priests could heal them?)  
Showing up the old guard for a fool tends to anger them. 
 
...just ask Obama, who is himself already twenty years older than Jesus was when Jesus started his ministry.

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