Seems lots of Christians were trained wrong... if they read the Bible they would know that Jesus said to buy a sword, that the lazy can go hungry, that the rich man decides where his money goes, that if a rich man wants to be PERFECT he can give his money away, that God rewards the good investor and takes away from the one not reinvesting his funds, that one is to follow the laws of the land, that as enemy forces are approaching, if you refuse to raise an alarm you are as guilty as those enemy forces of betraying your fellow countrymen, that FAITH in God and not good works is what saves a person, etc.
In all these matters, Trump shines.
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Also, Gandhi was a psychotically violent British collaborateur, Cleopatra was a sheltered nun, Lincoln was a cannibalistic serial killer hunting both escaped and active slaves, Nero was a good Christian, Pope Alexander VI. Borgia was a very chaste man who would never dream of getting involved in wordly affairs, Wilhelm II. was the most competent German Emperor, Hitler was a pacifist, Moses was a Satanist, and Mr. Spock will have a goatee.
The Bible cannot even keep it's "facts" straight for two chapters, and The Gospels are no exception. Fundementalists and moderates alike would be wise not to place too much stock in how the Bible views Jesus, lest the bias of each of the Gospels authors become our own.
"if you refuse to raise an alarm you are as guilty as those enemy forces of betraying your fellow countrymen"
So, not guilty at all? I mean they didn't betray your countrymen, so their amount of betrayal can be said to be 0. You are as guilty as they are of this, so your betrayal must equal 0 since theirs does, too.
@AuraTwilight
Slight correction, it should be "easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven."
Was your Bible a version edited by Michelle Bachmann? I bet that God approved of usury in your version.
@Saywhat?:
Seconded. This is practically an example of a Hollywood conservative Christian trying to excuse their promotion of greed and disdain for the poor.
I notice some of those points come from the way Jesus sets up a parable, describing a situation, with nothing to do with the moral payoff. It's like reading Little Red Riding Hood and taking from it that wolves should eat grandmothers.
@ Say what?
I submitted this post and I also had my suspicions, so I checked back through this guy's postings a long while. Regrettably, he seems to be genuine.
This is the new Christianity. Get a bunch of guns, fuck the poor, amass as much wealth as you can, and adopt an us-vs.-them attitude. All brought to you by the religious right.
"In all these matters, Trump shines."
You can shine a turd, but it's still a turd.
I've read through the Bible and, no, it does not say the poor can starve and nor does it specify that people must own swords.
The apostles were armed when Jesus was arrested and he told them to put away their swords. He also told them at various times to give what they had to the poor, that what they did to "the least of these" it is as if they had done it to their God.
(The Old Testament told people with farmland not to harvest all their crops but to leave the corners and whatever fell from the sheaves for gleaners - poor people who needed to gather food, whether the landlord knew them or not - to collect. Does wlrpaul tithe a tenth of his gross income or cancel debts to those who owe him after a certain number of years have elapsed?)
Jesus wasn't a military leader (nor an absolute pacifist, either). He did, however, tell people to do to others as they'd have others do to them.
I can only assume that if wlrpaul becomes disabled or falls on financial hard times for some other reason that he'll want people to tell him top fuck off and starve rather than to help him. Either that or, shockingly, wlrpaul is a flaming hypocrite.
So you're the kind of Christian who thinks there should be no welfare and that anyone unemployed is just lazy.
I want to kill you. I want to murder you in numerous horrible, but very protracted, ways. You are the exact person Jesus was talking about when he said not everyone who claimed to follow him really did. Your vicious classism shows you serve your own greed, not Jesus.
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