What Would Jesus Drive? He'd Ride The Bus

21 January 2003 - 6:00am

In response to a letter suggesting white-collar crooks be forced to live in public housing and ride public transit, the author says riding the bus is a privilege, not a punishment.

"Americans value risk-takers, whether on the playing field or in business ventures. But, curiously, the risk of human contact is not one we are very comfortable with. It asks too much of our tolerance, pushes too hard on our buttons, breaches our self-imposed boundaries...[Jesus would] take the bus, of course. Not because public transit saves hydrocarbons or slows global warming, though those are worthy reasons.No, he'd be on the bus because that's where the humanity is."

Source: The Oregonian, January 18, 2003
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.