You Got to Watch What You're Doing

In the news, regarding protesters at a church service due to ICE connections:

" A Sunday morning church service in the Twin Cities interrupted by anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters is the latest flash point in escalating tensions between the Trump administration and demonstrators in Minnesota.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who oversees the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, announced an investigation within hours, calling the protesters’ actions “desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.” "

These protesters better be careful. It's this kinda shit that got Jesus killed.

"On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and

began driving out those who were buying and selling there.

He overturned the tables of the money changers

and the benches of those selling doves*, and

would not allow anyone to carry merchandise

through the temple courts.

And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and BEGAN LOOKING FOR A WAY TO KILL HIM,

for they feared him,

because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching."

*NOTE: The gospel ("good news for the poor and marginalized") writer specifically notes that Jesus picked specifically the benches selling doves. THE "dove offering" was the offering that the poorest people offered at the temple. Wealthier folks offered goats, etc. What happened, I've read, is that the poor people would bring their own meager doves to offer as a sacrifice - which was required by the religious leaders for them to be "right" with God - and the "inspectors" at the temple (the merchants) would say, "Oh wait, YOUR dove doesn't meet minimum requirements required by GOD. You'll have to buy one of OURS."

It was a scam fleecing specifically the poor (and others). THIS is what outraged Jesus so. THIS is what led to Jesus' execution by the state.