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6th December 2011, 11:33
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I love that Thom Hartmann points this out. It most certainly is blasphemy if your ARE a christian and use christianity, Christ, or God for material gain, for any christian its discusing. In fact the ONLY time Jesus ever got violent was to drive out people from the temple doing the same thing.
I think its very important for leftist christians to be vocal about this, its not only missinterprating the Gospel what the right wing does, its not ONLY twisting tiny parts of different parts of the bible (they rarely use the gospel) to promote hate and disdain, it is actual blasphemy, its just as immoral, as the religious leaders in Jesus time, who said in the end "We have no king but Caesar," in the end that is what the religious right is, when it comes between buisiness and Christ, they say "We have no king but Capitalism." The fact that they are so quick to support the commercialization of christianity (something that would make a real christian sick to his stomach). Not only is it inconsistant with christianity, even the very basic form of it (agape love), its blasphemous.
BTW, his use of the parable of the farm workers is comical at best. He said the Kingdom of heaven IS AS a man traveling and so on, its interpereted by almost everyone to mean that christians should use their time and energy in furthering the gospel or giving back to the kingdom of heaven, NO WHERE in any of those parables is it talking about how to run society, economics, or even how one should actually act within economics or society, its all about mans relationship with the kingdom of heaven.
If your gonna take these parables (Which by definition are not supposed to be taken literally), then according to Mathew 20:1-16 everyone should be the same wage, or according to Like 11:5-8 we should annoy the shit out of our neighbors at night and wake them up, or according to Luke 7:36-50 we should give debt amnesty accross the board, or Luke 16:1-13 tells use we should steal from our Boss, or Mathew 22:1-14 says that bounces should enforce dress codes.
I mean the whole point of parables was to talk about deeper spiritual issues in simple terms by using things that are of everyday knowledge, if you take all of them literally your totally missing the point.
Of coares this AFR douchbag knows that the parable was'nt to be taken literally, (Its as stupid as saying that when Jesus said we should be like children it's not talking about humility, its talking about playing with toys and pissing your bed,) but he's purposefully using christianity and blaspheming to support big buisiness, its discusting and reprehensible.
I love that Thom Hartmann points this out. It most certainly is blasphemy if your ARE a christian and use christianity, Christ, or God for material gain, for any christian its discusing. In fact the ONLY time Jesus ever got violent was to drive out people from the temple doing the same thing.
I think its very important for leftist christians to be vocal about this, its not only missinterprating the Gospel what the right wing does, its not ONLY twisting tiny parts of different parts of the bible (they rarely use the gospel) to promote hate and disdain, it is actual blasphemy, its just as immoral, as the religious leaders in Jesus time, who said in the end "We have no king but Caesar," in the end that is what the religious right is, when it comes between buisiness and Christ, they say "We have no king but Capitalism." The fact that they are so quick to support the commercialization of christianity (something that would make a real christian sick to his stomach). Not only is it inconsistant with christianity, even the very basic form of it (agape love), its blasphemous.
BTW, his use of the parable of the farm workers is comical at best. He said the Kingdom of heaven IS AS a man traveling and so on, its interpereted by almost everyone to mean that christians should use their time and energy in furthering the gospel or giving back to the kingdom of heaven, NO WHERE in any of those parables is it talking about how to run society, economics, or even how one should actually act within economics or society, its all about mans relationship with the kingdom of heaven.
If your gonna take these parables (Which by definition are not supposed to be taken literally), then according to Mathew 20:1-16 everyone should be the same wage, or according to Like 11:5-8 we should annoy the shit out of our neighbors at night and wake them up, or according to Luke 7:36-50 we should give debt amnesty accross the board, or Luke 16:1-13 tells use we should steal from our Boss, or Mathew 22:1-14 says that bounces should enforce dress codes.
I mean the whole point of parables was to talk about deeper spiritual issues in simple terms by using things that are of everyday knowledge, if you take all of them literally your totally missing the point.
Of coares this AFR douchbag knows that the parable was'nt to be taken literally, (Its as stupid as saying that when Jesus said we should be like children it's not talking about humility, its talking about playing with toys and pissing your bed,) but he's purposefully using christianity and blaspheming to support big buisiness, its discusting and reprehensible.