Jesus For President, Moses for Speaker of the House

Josh Dies, vocalist for the band Showbread, has invited people to the band’s paid forum (for free) for a reading and discussion of the book Jesus For President, by Shane Claiborne. It’s not a new book, but it has caused some waves because of its somewhat controversial politics and visual design (I don’t know how something so design-heavy could possibly offer a coherent, complete political statement, but that is secondary).

I don’t think I’ll read it, at least not now, but it will be interesting to follow the discussions. From what I know of the book it’s encouraging American Christians to lean less towards Moral Majority Christianized politics to welfare state Christianized politics. I wonder if anyone in the discussion group will undercut the premise that, instead of using the state’s armed, coercive power to enforce moral law and unnecessary warfare, Jesus would want the church to use it to accomplish a zero-sum-gain wealth redistribution (“pay us or go to jail”). I’m guessing not a lot, if any.