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In reply to the discussion: Pic of The Moment: GOP Congressman Says Children, Elderly, Disabled Should Work If They Want To Eat [View all]raging moderate
(4,618 posts)"Pure religion and undefiled is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress."
James 1:26
"Come, you that are blessed by my Father, and enter my Kingdom! For I was hungry, and you gave me food: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you welcomed me; I was naked, and you gave me clothing; I was sick, and you cared for me; I was in prison, and you visited me. Truly, as you did it unto the least of these my brothers, you did it unto me."
Matthew 25:34 - 40
"What doth the Lord require of you, but to do justice, LOVE mercy, and walk humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8
"What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the faces of the poor?"
Isaiah 3:15
"This was the sin of Sodom: She had her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."
Esekiel 16:49
"Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbors work for nothing and does not give them their wages."
Jeremiah 22:13
"For the scripture says, You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain, and the Laborer is worthy of his pay."
Paul, in 1st Letter to Timothy, 5:18
"But the fruits of God's Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and SELF-control."
Paul, in Letter to Galatians, 5:2
These people think they have read the Bible, but they have mostly slid through most of it with blah blah blah in their minds, pausing to gather ammunition for the hatred that smolders always in their hearts, against anyone who dares to question the actions of their thieving ancestors in any detail, or to question their own right to further increase their already obscene store of riches by more and more redistribution of wealth out of the hands of those who labor to produce it into the hands of those who sit in air=conditioned offices devising wicked schemes against the poor and needy. And yes, the Bible also condemns that practice.