i was thinking along the same lines as the other rb.
the only version of jesus that i find to be interesting is the one developed by liberation theologians----the one whose primary message concerns the dignity of the poor--the political implications of that message extended to the development of base communities, which were autonomous patterns of economic and social organization.
so that jesus would have probably been something on the order of an anarcho-syndicalist.
and we cant have that.
when john paul 2 came into being, among his first actions was to dispatch his ideological hatchetman cardinal ratzinger--who is now the this character called benedict---to silence the liberation theologians and erase the work that they had done.
so i dont think that jesus would have had anything to do with conventional politics, which are affairs of socio-economic elites.
you should read the brazillian writer da cunha's "rebellion in the backlands"
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/nfitch/...b/amnesia.html
which outlines a probable scenario: that jesus would have been portrayed as a nutcase or worse and would have been hunted down like a dog and murdered. the big difference between the details of that scenario and what would happen now the americans would have trained and armed the rightwing paramilitary that would kill him---in the name of christianity of course..
nietzsche was right.