 masbury says: "So from Sarah Palin today, I heard rampant super-patriotism, an uncritical support for everything military, a scurrilous attack on any notion of how government might serve the common good, an effusive defense of guns, and a completely backwards biblical theology of the haves and have-nots. So why, as an evangelical Christian, am I supposed to like her?" hey! i clipped the same thing monte! brilliant little piece by jim wallis, huh? made me laugh and want to thump my head on the desk at the same time  What is there to like? There is an overwhelming religious mandate that is often ignored by fundamentalists to alleviate the plight of those who are in need. One out of sixteen verses in the New Testament, one in ten in three of the Gospels, and one in seven in the Gospel of Luke referred to the poor. It is clear the proper treatment of the poor should be an extremely high priority among those who shape American policies. Over and over again Jesus lays it on the line. By reaching out to help the poor, you are also racking up points with someone else very important. So Sarah can preachy her belief that poverty is just a matter of bad faith and negative thinking, but our mission on Earth is to imitate Christ by ... Preach it, sis! "God helps those who help themselves" doesn't appear anywhere in the bible, not even in the Old Testament. In fact, it is in direct opposition of just what being a Christian is. It says clearly in the bible that God helps those who help other people, so if America is supposed to be a "Christian" nation as nutbars like Sarah contend, then all Christians have a mandate to make America into a Socialist nation. Or you could just let it be a secular nation, as the US founding fathers founded it to be, and let it become a Socialist nation like the majority of secular citizens wish it to become. Looking at my own calculations, based on the prophesy in the Book of Revelations, Sarah Palin just may be young enough to be the Antichrist. "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." I mean Matthew 9:13 is so clear and famous. Those who are 'righteous' (and there are many on CM, we know, because they keep telling us how righteous they are) presumably follow Christ's mission to love the sinners, the despised, the 'low'. To berate and look down on the latter while extolling one's own purity and virtues is such a blatantly antichristian thing to do that it is a sign indeed of grace that so many show contempt for these righteous prigs. Good point - in fact, the contention that eventually led to Jesus' death was part of this very thing: religious people who were more concerned about minding the p's and q's of their faith rather than showing mercy. It's not just non-Christian, it's an anti-Christian view that Palin espouses. |
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