... you know what I think?
I think if Jesus wept over his love for Lazarus and the loved ones he left behind, he'd be crying buckets of tears over the hatred and bigotry and twisted logic of those currently using "religious freedom" to enact legislation to endorse state sanctioned discrimination.
Although it might be that he'd be more like Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam (as in ... "all cried out") seeing as how institutionalized religion has been behind so much death and destruction over the many years where civilization has made a mockery of the first part of that word.
And you know who'd join him in the crying game? A certain little prophet known the world over (whose name I won't mention to avoid a fatwa) who is being used as inspiration for evil like hasn't been seen in centuries.
Or maybe he'd be alone, offering up a sermon atop Hoosier Hill (the highest point of elevation in Indiana ... according to the interwebs), like his classic diatribe against the religious holier-than-thous of *his* day -- a la Luke 12's characterization of the Pharisee phoniness and how you can't hide behind a religious mask forever without it slipping at some point to reveal your true nature.
Not to get all Scorsese on the subject, but I could also see the pissed-off-Jesus who destroyed the temple marketplace teaching the representatives in the chambers of the Indianapolis state house a thing or two about using the Lord's name to accomplish what is most certainly not the Lord's work.
By the way -- I am not anti-religion. I think individuals should be encouraged to explore a personal relationship with the higher being (or beings, if you were born into a polytheistic culture). But I also think that individuals who gather together in His name are all too easily led astray once money and power and influence enter the equation.
And I think if your goal is to hate, then at least be firm enough in your convictions to announce your intentions outright ... and let's keep Jesus and other religious figures out of it.
Cowards.
TURNS OUT HE WEPT MORE THAN ONCE:
http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-wept.html
THE SERMON FOR HOOSIER HILL:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+12&version=MSG
NO WONDER WE'RE ALL "OVER" INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION:
http://religions.pewforum.org/reports
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