A few words from the Bible for Bush and his fundamentalist friends...

[rockymountaindem]

From Deuteronomy, Ch. 15:

"7. "If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;
8. but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.
9. "Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, `The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,' and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you.
10. "You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.
11. "For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, `You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.'
12. "If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free.
13. "When you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed.
14. "You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.
15. "You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today."

So, let's stop with the tax cuts for the rich and benefit and aid cuts for the poor. The Bible does not say "God helps those who help themselves". Rather, it commands us to help those in need. God reminds us that there will always be poor people. It does not say that "all those people wouldn't be poor if they would get a job, have no pity on them". The Bible says that we should have pity and charity whether these people "deserve" it or not. We all deserve it. Those who are blessed with plenty should not keep the blessings for themselves, but rather show their thanks by sharing their blessings with those who are less fortunate.

That's my sermon this Labor Day. Thanks for attending :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Good sermon! *wave*

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Amin!

and Amen.

[sakabatou]

3. Amen

[BlueJac]

4. Amen

[Katidid]

5. Ah men

Thanks for the sermon, RockyMD
:hi:

[rockymountaindem]

6. Hey! Somebody recommended me for the greatest page!

That's never happened to me before! Thanks :toast:

[amandabeech]

7. Isn't there something in the New Testament that has Jesus saying

"What you do to the least among you, you do unto me?"

I wish that I could give the citation, but my Bible is at my Mom's a thousand miles away, and it's been too long since I was in Methodist Sunday School.

Those words, or ones like them, really stuck with me even though organized Christianity didn't.


On Edit: But then, * and his fundie friends aren't really into the New Testament. Too much love and not enough smiting.

[rockymountaindem]

8. Yes, there is.

That verse is frequently cited here on DU. If you want to look for it, you can search on bible.com like I did for my post. I've never used that site before but it seemed pretty good from the few minutes I spent there.

I knew exactly what I was looking for because this is the part of the Torah we read in synagogue this week on the yearly rotation. We're getting to the end now (Deuteronomy) because the new year is only a month away.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. It appears in Jesus' own description

of the Last Judgement, in Matthew 25: 31-46, the only description of it in the whole of scripture. It is very beautiful in my view.

[greekspeak]

9. I think this is redacted from the Authorized Fundivangelical Version (AFV)

The AFV ignore this. The verses that really matter are the ones that allegedly condemn gays, and that contain a wrathful deity.

[leftyleftist]

11. Yes and thanks for posting this

[DemocracyInaction]

12. I realized long ago that these people are not about Christ nor

religion even if they hang crosses around their neck and slap fish symbols on their cars. They are about HATE. In so many of the churches it's a place to go to segreate oneself from the minorities. It's a place to confirm you are superior and they deserve to be dead. It's a place to worship greed (God is blessing us 'cause we are goooood). Their time is coming and they are going to receive it at the hands of the same butchers who brought us the "let 'em drown" killing fields of New Orleans.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. They've used Jesus to establish and maintain their following

They are the lowest form of scum. I'd vote for a flatworm before I voted for a Bushit.

[rockymountaindem]

13. Kick for the nite crowd.

n/t

[Mend]

15. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers

for thereby some have entertained angels unawares" Hebrews 13-2

[rockymountaindem]

16. Oooooohhhh- good one.

Thanks for posting that.