Does Mitt Romney really believe in the Gospel?

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Re: Does Mitt Romney really believe in the Gospel?

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ajax18 wrote:The ten commandmets translated properly is, "Thou shalt not murder."


So how do you translate "Turn the other cheek”.?
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DoubtingThomas wrote:
ajax18 wrote:The ten commandmets translated properly is, "Thou shalt not murder."


So how do you translate "Turn the other cheek”.?


Arthur C Clarke was right. Christianity died the moment Luther nailed up his 99 thesis. Lay people are not capable or qualified to interperet scripture.
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Re: Does Mitt Romney really believe in the Gospel?

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It's kind of like asking if George Soros really believes the 1% should pay higher taxes than they do now. If so, why does he have to wait for legislation to be enacted to pay higher taxes?

Or one could ask if the Hollywood elites really believe that man made global warming is an urgent crisis. If so, why do they continue to contribute so heavily to the carbon footprint via air travel, owning SUVs etc.?

One could say they just don't practice what they preach. But I think it's more a case of saying one thing but secretly believing another.
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ajax18 wrote:It's kind of like asking if George Soros really believes the 1% should pay higher taxes than they do now. If so, why does he have to wait for legislation to be enacted to pay higher taxes?

Or one could ask if the Hollywood elites really believe that man made global warming is an urgent crisis. If so, why do they continue to contribute so heavily to the carbon footprint via air travel, owning SUVs etc.?

One could say they just don't practice what they preach. But I think it's more a case of saying one thing but secretly believing another.
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pointed out to our racist White separatist that if he really believed this BS he spews he’d trade in precious metals for goods and services. He’s such a damned garbage piece of crap who hates our federal government so much he accepts its medicaid and medicare, on federal notes, and all the other associated benefits of social services, programs, and everything in between when it all really boils down to a thinly veiled distaste for non-WASPs. This absolute damned piece of garbage posts this BS about Libs being hypocritical when he himself is so mired in hypocrisy he could never unsuckle from the government’s teat, the very government he hates so much, because it has the audacity to be pluralistic.

I don’t know in what world he thinks living in a ‘separate but equal’ NatSoc state in the Appalachia would be amazeballs, but here we are. The level of abject retardery it takes to not only entertain that more for than a few moments, but actually traipse around the Internet with the handle AJAX-14-88 and act like he’s anything but a racist is so beyond dense he’s almost at risk of becoming a singularity.

But. Whatever. Here we are. We interact with a guy who hopes for a rahowa and the dissolution of the country that feeds and protects him. Go figure.

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ajax reminds me of the scene in Godfather 3 when the cardinal is telling Don Corleone that even though rocks have been in the water for centuries, they are still dry on the inside.

Like the water with the stone, facts, logic and common sense cannot penetrate ajax's thick skull. He's happy living in his dishonestly constructed world. He's the poster child for willful ignorance, and To be honest, I'm not sure he's smart enough to recognize his own hypocrisy (a hypocrisy obvious to everyone else).
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ajax18 wrote:It's kind of like asking if George Soros really believes the 1% should pay higher taxes than they do now. If so, why does he have to wait for legislation to be enacted to pay higher taxes?

Careful. Someone might think that you’ve been trying too hard to dodge reality in the midst of regurgitating right-wing talking points, because you missed the part where Soros donates piles of cash to support the sorts of things that you would object to being taxed to support.

From 2017:

George Soros just gave most of his wealth to his charitable organization, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The billionaire philanthropist transferred $18 billion to Open Society Foundations, a sprawling international group of charities that works in more than 100 countries on projects focused on refugee relief, public health and many other topics.

The $18 billion figure amounts to almost 80 percent of the financier's total net worth. Before the transfer, Soros had a net worth of $23 billion, according to a Forbes tally Tuesday. The site ranks him as the 29th wealthiest person in the world.

The donation catapulted Open Society Foundations to the front ranks of American charities based on total assets, the Journal reported, citing 2014 data. The only American charity larger than Open Society, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is also funded by a famous billionaire.

Soros began his charitable giving in 1979, nine years after launching Soros Fund Management, the hedge fund that would propel him into America's ultrawealthy. He has given away $12 billion in the four decades since, according to his official biography, available on his website.

His first charitable work involved providing black South Africans with scholarships during the country's apartheid. During the Cold War, he provided photocopiers to people living in eastern Europe in order to reprint texts banned by communist governments. He has also underwritten the largest effort to integrate Europe's Roma, according to the biography available on his website.

Soros and the Open Society Foundations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/10/17/phi ... arity.html
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Canpakes,

The only thing they’ll see is another Jew subverting stable societies.

- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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canpakes wrote:From 2017:

George Soros just gave most of his wealth to his charitable organization, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The billionaire philanthropist transferred $18 billion to Open Society Foundations,...

Open Society...founded by George Soros and the chairman is George Soros.
Seems like a legit transfer....proceed with your defense there cannypakesy.
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