How Would Jesus Vote?

How Would Jesus Vote? By Mark Stucky Would Jesus vote for striking others’ cheeks in tweets? Would Jesus vote for grabbing others’ genitals? Would Jesus vote for separating children from parents? Would Jesus vote for ceaseless scandals and lies? Would Jesus vote for prideful arrogance and bragging? Would Jesus vote for juvenile insults and name-calling? Would Jesus vote for tantrums and narcissism? Would Jesus vote for alienating national allies… while coddling dangerous demagogues? Would Jesus vote for enabling the rich to get richer… while the poor become ever more impoverished? Would Jesus vote for following false profits and prophets? Would Jesus vote for a president twice-impeached? Would Jesus vote for a peer-convicted felon? Would Jesus vote for immunity from justice? Would Jesus vote for insolence and insurrection? Would Jesus vote for revenge and retribution? Would Jesus vote for ends justifying the means? Would Jesus vote for devotion to deceptive idols? Would Jesus vote for destroying our democracy? Would Jesus vote to make America hate again? On the ballot, what would Jesus do? We should all surely vote that way too. (See also my related poems “The Art of the Devilish Deal,” “The 2023rd Psalm,” and “Tweeting the Truth in Love.”) (Image by Edmond Dantès on Pexels.com.)