Response: Political Traditions

In response to Dania Guadalupe's post "What Would Jesus Do?" (February 23, 2012):

I would agree that Jesus would have supported discrimination on the basis of baptism or anything else.  However, it is helpful to remember that just because Jesus would not have supported it, it is not necessarily bad.  Many religions have changed over time to reflect changing political and social situations, and many of the changes are good things.  This one practice in particular, I think, may not be a good thing, but this is not true of all changes.  In fact, I doubt that Jesus would have wanted people to keep Christianity (or a modified form of Judaism, as it was when he was alive) in a static state just in order to strictly follow what he said; he probably would have recognized that changing times call for changing practices if one hopes to keep a religion alive.