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NavyDoc
MOMof3
reply to post by NavyDoc
He did not tell anyone what to do. He gave choices. Two. Heaven or Hell. "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life". All of His teachings directed us to have love and forgiveness for one another. You moneychangers can try to rewrite the meaning but it won't change the Truth. As the evidence is now in after 30 years of rampant greed and policies.
And where is taking from one to give to another one of the choices presented?
"You moneychangers?" How stupid. I'm fairly certain I have given more to charity, in money, materiel, and service in the last decade than you have done in your entire life. Ever hear of operation smile?
What Christ encouraged, and I agree with, is personal giving and charity. What he did not encourage nor even mentioned, was socialism and wealth redistribution and coercive "charity." The selfish are not those who wish to keep the fruits of their labor. The thieves are not those who want to give to whom and how much and when they choose. The selfish thieves are those who want to take from one to give to another to satisfy their warped notions of "fairness" and "social justice" and they are every bit as hypocritical as the Pharisees and every bit as greedy as the moneychangers in the temple. They just cloak themselves in self righteousness which is even more disgusting.
C.S. Lewis talks about your ilk: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
MOMof3
reply to post by NavyDoc
What is stupid is attributing Christ with your human flaw of greed and politics. You should read the words of Jesus. Where did he leave out love and forgiveness, attributes unattainable by political conservatives.
MOMof3
reply to post by NavyDoc
What is stupid is attributing Christ with your human flaw of greed and politics. You should read the words of Jesus. Where did he leave out love and forgiveness, attributes unattainable by political conservatives.
MOMof3
reply to post by ketsuko
I have made my choice and have always given because I embraced the teachings of Jesus at nine with a child's heart. He said to enter the Kingdom of Heaven we must turn around and become as children. Mt.18
MOMof3
reply to post by ketsuko
I have made my choice and have always given because I embraced the teachings of Jesus at nine with a child's heart. He said to enter the Kingdom of Heaven we must turn around and become as children. Mt.18
bjax9er
Why are the poorest countries around the world socialist?
Why do socialist countries all throughout history murder millions of their own citizens? Like nazi germany.
Isn't the pope from Argentina? A socialist hell hole.
Once the second wealthiest country in the world.
Now after all out socialism their GDP is $500 billion.
Hey jackwagons, utopia is an impossibility.
Capitalism is BOSS!!!
bjax9er
Why are the poorest countries around the world socialist?
Why do socialist countries all throughout history murder millions of their own citizens? Like nazi germany.
Isn't the pope from Argentina? A socialist hell hole.
Once the second wealthiest country in the world.
Now after all out socialism their GDP is $500 billion.
Hey jackwagons, utopia is an impossibility.
Capitalism is BOSS!!!
MOMof3
reply to post by NavyDoc
You misunderstand my point. If more believed the true teachings of Jesus and acted like it, there would be no need for government. You and I cannot solve the problem of the poor alone.
How can anyone deny that since the Crash of '08, all the subsidies have benefited the rich. What in the name of God is wrong with tilting the scales just a little for the less fortunate? And forgive them for being failures.
but it was capitalism that made electricity available to everyone, including the poor.