The American Spectator

AT THE END OF HIS speech, Winkler got theological. “Jesus Christ, if not a pacifist himself, would certainly resemble Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King in terms of his political strategies,” Winkler declared. “Like Gandhi and King, Jesus understood power and like them he built a power base. That’s why the Romans executed him.”

There, in a capsule, is the Religious Left notion of Jesus: a savvy organizer who had “political strategies,” “understood power,” and “built a power base,” for which he suffered capital punishment by the regime of His day. This notion of Jesus more resembles Salvador Allende than the Savior of the world recognizable to most Christians, who recall that Jesus, who carefully avoided political statements, was killed for His audacity in claiming deity for Himself.

“The war ON terror is a war OF terror,” Winkler cleverly concluded his Bush impeachment talk. It would be tempting to call the ostensibly “prophetic” Winkler a false prophet, but false prophets at least had audiences. The President may indeed have many worries ahead, but denunciations from bureaucrats of his own denomination should not number among them.