Who Would Jesus Kill?

by Stephanie Ernst · 2008-12-27 12:57:00 UTC
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Forgive the light posting today, friends. Today is the first of several days of my move from one house to another, and my computer chose this afternoon to freeze up too.

But luckily for me (and for you), I still have something interesting for you to read today. Pattrice Jones--activist, academic, founder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center, and author of the blog SuperWeed and the book Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies, among other roles and endeavors--linked on Christmas Day to an excellent essay she wrote six years ago titled "Who Would Jesus Kill?" I hadn't read it before, so I'm glad she directed SuperWeed readers' attention to it. Pattrice explained in this more recent post,

"Who would Jesus kill?" That’s the question I rhetorically asked myself on Christmas day in 2002, as the nation debated whether or not to attack Iraq. The resulting essay is, in my view, too heavy on didactic argument and too light on lively imagery but turned out to be very popular.

Go find the answer to that 2002 question--who would Jesus kill?--in Pattrice's essay.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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