What Would Jesus Do?

It's been a long time since I've written something here, on this blog. Not that my mind has been absent thoughts on politics, economics, theology, ethics, etc. That stuff is usually scrambled around my brain amidst my time playing Left 4 Dead 2 with my brothers, movies, reading some cool books, and making lattes. I just haven't had any "new" thoughts I regarded worthy of submitting for your review. Until recently.

At this discussion I went to a couple of nights ago where a group of guys talk about politics, theology, stuff, an attendant in the meeting had a unique twist on the story of the Widow's Mite. We were talking about why some churches are inclined toward a more liberal, "Social Justice" bend on the basis of Jesus's own "social activism." The man at this meeting, a lawyer, said that if Christianity and/or Jesus is inclined toward voting Democrat or Liberal, than how things turned out in the story of the Widow's Mite would have turned out differently. If Jesus wants us to regard larger government as the answer, especially taxing those with more resources, than instead of extolling the widow for giving all she had, even though it was very little, he should have run up to her and said, "No, no, no! You don't have enough to do that. Here, these rich men ahead of you will pay your temple donation and this centurion over here will see to it that it's done."

Now of course there are many levels and themes to the story as told in scripture, but I thought this man's hypothetical take an interesting one.