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Sep. 2nd, 2006 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaAw crap! Another one where God spends pages and pages saying 'Don't be a Republican'
Deut 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
That's the most to the point bit of it, but there are a dozen paragraphs around it that restate it in other ways.
I wish there were some way I could force a right-winger to write down their version of the bible without looking stuff up just to see what exactly it is they are reading because it sure isn't this book.
Deut 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
That's the most to the point bit of it, but there are a dozen paragraphs around it that restate it in other ways.
I wish there were some way I could force a right-winger to write down their version of the bible without looking stuff up just to see what exactly it is they are reading because it sure isn't this book.
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Date: 2006-09-03 03:16 am (UTC)Oh, yes. That'd definitely be something we could use. Heck, we'd have to lock a whole convention-load of them together to agree on something - and then they'd kill each other off rather than compromise.
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Date: 2006-09-03 03:16 am (UTC)"He who does not work, let him also not eat."
"The poor you will have with you always."
And also: It's not the government's job to give handouts. Churches should handle charity.
Those are the usual arguments
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Date: 2006-09-03 04:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-03 04:44 pm (UTC)Check that out, makes for good reading on this topic. Very interesting points.
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Date: 2006-09-03 11:11 pm (UTC)