{"id":1587,"date":"2007-12-28T10:57:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T10:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/12\/whom-would-jesus-hang-with.html"},"modified":"2007-12-28T10:57:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T10:57:03","slug":"whom-would-jesus-hang-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/12\/whom-would-jesus-hang-with.html","title":{"rendered":"Whom Would Jesus Hang With?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Chicago Daily Herald <\/em>recently asked <\/a>random celebs\u2019 \u201cWhich person, living or dead, would you most like to spend the day with?\u201d the no. 1 answer was \u201cJesus,\u201d though, frankly, the Good Lord has spent time in better company than the crop of B-listers who answered the Herald\u2019s <\/em>phone call.<\/p>\n


\nThose who wanted to hang with the Christian Messiah included Rick Tramanto, a lesser light in that ever-softening category of \u201ccelebrity chef\u201d; actress Linda Evans; Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes; and rocker George Thorogood (of the Destroyers). Not exactly Moses and Elijah. (The next most popular answer, from Bill Cosby, Weird Al, actor Fred Savage and guitar hero Ted Nugent, was \u201cmy wife.\u201d Now that’s a bunch I could chill with!)
\nMore dispiriting yet was the fact that Thorogood wanted to meet Jesus only for the historical bragging rights, and seemed to have an anti-Christian agenda. “He’s arguably the most famous person in history, and as a history buff I’d be interested in meeting him,” said the former leader of the Destroyers. “But I’d also like to say to him, “Take some advice. Keep your religious beliefs to yourself.” Uh, George, wouldn’t that kind of put a crimp in Jesus’s historical value?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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