Jesus wouldn't have a prayer among the far right

[OneBlueSky]

a couple of years old, but even more relevant now . . .

By Erik V. Williams
Amarillo Globe-News
January 29,2003

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If the right-wingers really studied the matter, they'd find they have more in common with Muhammad than with Jesus. Muhammad was a merchant, a businessman and entrepreneur - a capitalist. Before Jesus walked off his job, he was a carpenter, a common laborer - and with his talk of brotherhood, no doubt would have been a union man.

He hung out with the dregs of society: the poor, prostitutes, tax collectors, and finally thieves. Not exactly the kind of person to whom you would entrust your most precious and eternal possession: your stock portfolio.

Jesus revealed his anti-business agenda as soon as he threw the money-changers out of the temple. To the orthodox for whom taxation is government organized theft, Jesus' clear advocacy of paying taxes by "rendering unto Caesar" is a complete abomination. Scholars are still divided over whether the raising of Lazarus was to escape the death tax or an intent to pay it twice

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Jesus mollycoddled the poor and went out of his way to condemn the rich. His warning that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy man to get into heaven was typical socialist blather. The affluent have had to devote themselves to breeding smaller camels and building larger needles ever since.

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1. I was just thinking this today

the right wing IS not better than islamic sharia law extremism.

From what I can gather everything they say they are is the equivelent of "healthy forests" where it actually means they tear down the trees, rape the land, kill the forests.

When they say liberty, they mean incarceration.
when they say for family values, they mean the degeneration of family values
love is hate
war is peace

you get the picture.

But don't ever for get this one.
when they say "God" they actually mean "Satan"

So just take what they say, realize the actally mean the opposite. Becaue to them, telling the truth, means to LIE.