tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post1372527773088610237..comments2023-12-03T02:23:12.272-06:00Comments on BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com: Today's Bible Verse: "Listen, You Rich People, Weep And Wail Because Of The Misery That Is Coming On You"Marc McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-60277869690841004172011-12-18T15:02:26.437-06:002011-12-18T15:02:26.437-06:00The Bible is not a bigoted book. When it speaks ag...The Bible is not a bigoted book. When it speaks against homosexuality it does so on holy and righteous grounds not bigoted grounds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-1750331036669278202011-08-10T01:02:36.380-05:002011-08-10T01:02:36.380-05:00some rich people have the tendencies to take advan...some rich people have the tendencies to take advantage of the needs of beings not privilege enough.i believe its a challenge for wealthy men to extend financial assistance or somehow be an instrument of Gods love by being a provider to one's basic needs.rimefashionhttp://rimefashion.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-37616229424401844142011-07-05T00:05:29.387-05:002011-07-05T00:05:29.387-05:00Hi WageslaveZ, thanks for your comment.
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>&g...Hi WageslaveZ, thanks for your comment.<br />re:<br />>>You seriously think the moneyed<br />>>power brokers believe in God?<br /><br />No I don't. But they do, of course, believe in using religion to keep the proletariat down.<br />And for that to work, they need to cynically re-write what the Bible says. They've managed to turn Christ's message of love, peace and forgiveness into a religion of bigotry, hate, and intolerance.<br />It's no mystery why GOP bigot Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," didn't spend ANY time taking a look at Christ's message. The whole two f*cking hours was nothing but sick, twisted violence porn---but not one word about Christ's actual teachings.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-82508948248116742592011-07-04T10:53:46.541-05:002011-07-04T10:53:46.541-05:00You seriously think the moneyed power brokers beli...You seriously think the moneyed power brokers believe in God? Ayn Rand didn't, and she's the Mohammed-like hero to all these ultra-right-wing, profit mongering, kill-the-poor lunatics that are grinding us peasants into the dust. God to them is just a tool to get the Bible Thumper vote to keep their corporate lobbyist agenda in office. Sorry to say it, but Jesus was a Progressive, not a Republican. That's why all these Repukes try to avoid the 2nd Testament with all that helpful, charitable, compassionate stuff and whip out the Old Testament social Darwinism. I think of Jello Biafra when he said the rich would kill us with neutron bombs if they could, but then who'd work for rock-bottom wages and pump out more wageslaves for them to exploit?<br /><br /> -WageslaveZ-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-81615927433138611072011-06-27T09:27:08.745-05:002011-06-27T09:27:08.745-05:00Thanks for this. The religious right-ish people ap...Thanks for this. The religious right-ish people apply "right to life" to exactly and only one issue. To confront them with more unified Bible application is a tough sell. Upon reading this verse they universally salivate "well, that is James' rich he's talking to, not ours" and move on.xulonhttp://xulonjam.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/capitalism-and-the-attack-on-the-imago-dei/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-29329780649982996582011-06-27T00:14:46.541-05:002011-06-27T00:14:46.541-05:00Hi Talking Dog, I appreciate your comment.
Good po...Hi Talking Dog, I appreciate your comment.<br />Good point. I strongly suspect that the likes of Rush and GWB only cynically view "Christianity" as a tool to distract the ignorant masses. They're about as sincere in their "Christianity" as P.T. Barnum was in ensuring his customers got their money's worth.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-21644383330679149902011-06-27T00:03:27.102-05:002011-06-27T00:03:27.102-05:00Hi Jack, thanks for your comment. I'm convince...Hi Jack, thanks for your comment. I'm convinced that if Jesus came back today, he'd be condemned by the wingnuts as a pinko commie. It's just as impossible to argue with these deluded types as it is to reason with a Kool-Aid-drinking Rush listener.<br /><br />Hi Mud Rake: you make a good point. The Web site, The Skeptic's Bible, does a good job of illustrating just how much bullsh*t is in the Bible.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-8507590652839406002011-06-26T17:05:50.470-05:002011-06-26T17:05:50.470-05:00This will be a tough sell, because in their hearts...This will be a tough sell, because in their hearts, the real elite of the Republican establishment, like their real ideological forbear, <i>Ayn Rand</i>, don't really believe in God to begin with, as Dave Johnson brilliantly suggests here [for a bonus noting that their seemingly psychopathic streak has a basis in Rand too]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/concern-over-republican-e_b_875233.html <br /><br />Sure, the electoral legions the Republicans are counting on to win elections actually do take their Bible seriously (which is why a Mike Huckabee does better among rank and file, but is utterly anathema to the corporatists), but the unholy alliance between business elites and God-fearing poor Whites... has to do with that very, very last word there (between "poor" and "has"...) the potency of a movement that quite literally gets the peasants to storm the castle demanding more privileges for the aristocracy, because the aristocracy has brilliantly convinced them that their interests are pitted against darker skinned peasants. <br /><br />Of course, as noted, the "other party" has pretty much been captured by the corporatists as well. <br /><br />Perhaps the James passage is right, and God will sort all this out; I wouldn't count too much, however, on the government for that.the talking doghttp://thetalkingdog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-11823440848399349342011-06-25T06:47:21.128-05:002011-06-25T06:47:21.128-05:00One of the great political mysteries to me has alw...<i>One of the great political mysteries to me has always been how on earth the money-worshipping, screw-the-poor Right Wing in today's America have somehow managed to convince many people that the Bible supports their twisted beliefs.</i><br /><br />Mystery? Perhaps not at all. The BS that they spew becomes easily intermingles with all of the other BS in the Bible and so it is hard to distinguish one horse's ass fro the other.mud_rakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786611698569598023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-33669427833774967472011-06-24T11:03:50.112-05:002011-06-24T11:03:50.112-05:00Bravo, Marc, for a post well done! What you say is...Bravo, Marc, for a post well done! What you say is absolutely true, and scripture tells us that the conservative Republican way of penalizing the poor and showering the rich with even more cash is actually ANTI-Bible and ANTI-Christian. For, in examining the teachings of Christ and by following His example, it is easy to see that Jesus Christ was a LIBERAL!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465017098355576489noreply@blogger.com