ajax18 wrote:I'm not sure how you got from what I said that I was making Jesus out to say it's ok to blow off the poor. I think one can still be Christian and charitable without ascribing to forced government wealth redistribution.
Would you PLEASE stop pretending that you are opposed to government wealth redistribution! You are only opposed to it when it is redistributed in the opposite direction from which it is now flowing--namely from the impoverished and powerless to the extremely wealthy, who already have more wealth than they know what to do with!
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
ajax18 wrote:I'm not sure how you got from what I said that I was making Jesus out to say it's ok to blow off the poor. I think one can still be Christian and charitable without ascribing to forced government wealth redistribution.
Would you PLEASE stop pretending that you are opposed to government wealth redistribution! You are only opposed to it when it is redistributed in the opposite direction from which it is now flowing--namely from the impoverished and powerless to the extremely wealthy, who already have more wealth than they know what to do with!
Or if it flows into his pocket when doing office work in his Hush Puppies. The hypocrisy is staggering.
- 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.
ajax18 wrote:I'm not sure how you got from what I said that I was making Jesus out to say it's ok to blow off the poor. I think one can still be Christian and charitable without ascribing to forced government wealth redistribution.
Would you PLEASE stop pretending that you are opposed to government wealth redistribution! You are only opposed to it when it is redistributed in the opposite direction from which it is now flowing--namely from the impoverished and powerless to the extremely wealthy, who already have more wealth than they know what to do with!
I doubt ajax is actually capable of telling the truth. He has never demonstrated that he knows what the truth is in the first place, nor has he shown an interest in deriving reality. Pretty much everything he posts is premised on BS that must somehow be comfortable for him (which says it all for his character).
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Perfume on my Mind wrote:I doubt ajax is actually capable of telling the truth. He has never demonstrated that he knows what the truth is in the first place, nor has he shown an interest in deriving reality. Pretty much everything he posts is premised on BS that must somehow be comfortable for him (which says it all for his character).
I agree. It becomes increasingly obvious with every thread he participates in that he literally doesn't want to know any truth that conflicts with what he is already determined to believe. It's like backfire effect on steroids!
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Gunnar wrote:from the impoverished and powerless to the extremely wealthy
Poor people (a.k.a. "the impoverished") do not have money...so how does this economic theory of your actually manifest itself in reality. Malt liquor price gouging?
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Gunnar wrote:from the impoverished and powerless to the extremely wealthy
Poor people (a.k.a. "the impoverished") do not have money...so how does this economic theory of your actually manifest itself in reality. Malt liquor price gouging?
... asked a multimillionaire CEO to his minimum-wage-earning employee. ; )