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A 3 page paper which examines how Thoreau’s beliefs as expressed in “Civil Disobedience” were similar to those of Jesus Christ. No additional sources are used.
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looked to Jesus Christ - an aristocratic society that served the few rather than the many. Both were places where politicians spoke eloquent rhetoric about democracy and equality, while
at the same time citizens were living as slaves. Although Thoreau regarded himself as more of an atheist than as one of Gods flock, he ironically shared many of
the same beliefs as Jesus Christ. After all, in his time, Christ was not revered as the religious icon he is today. In fact, he was regarded by
the social mainstream as a blasphemous radical because his teachings were contrary to the prevailing government system, the Rome of the assassinated emperor Julius Caesar. Like Christ, Thoreau did
not believe in preserving a government simply for its own sake. If it was no longer attending to the needs of all citizens, Thoreau, ever the anarchist, believed it
should be abolished. Quoting theologian and philosopher William Paley (1743-1805) in his essay, which is now known as "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," Thoreau wrote, "So long as
the interest of the whole society requires it, that it, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconveniencey, it is the will of God...
that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also preaching to his followers to break with their present government in favor of establishing a kingdom of
God. Both Henry David Thoreau and Jesus Christ believed strongly in the concept of justice and refused to compromise it in any way. Many of Christs teachings
were about seeking justice as envisioned by God. Thoreau questioned what the nineteenth-century American government championed as justice in "Civil Disobedience," when he observed, "Unjust laws exist: shall we
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