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Recent comments in the Opinion Section:

Yes travelah the antichrist, it is better that people learn from people who actually understand the concepts, and considered your convoluted, tortured rationalizations, it certainly isn’t you. You keep saying that he said, this, but he really meant that. No travelah, when he said that it is impossible for rich people to get to heaven, that’s what he meant. When he said that you cannot serve God and wealth, that’s what he meant. There was no right-wing extremist addendum about how he really meant that it’s just dandy to be wealthy. When he overturned the moneychanger’s tables, he made no bones about it.

Jesus didn’t hang out with beggars? Are you out of your f*cking mind? You have sunk to a new low.

by entopticon on 11/20 at 07:51 PM
TOPIC: America must confront its own fu…

No, Jesus did not hangout with “panhandlers” and he never condemned wealth. Having a coin found in a fish’s mouth or taking a handful of loaves and fish to feed a great multitude is not the hallmark of a panhandler. The condemnation is that found in Paul’s epistle to the Romans.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Ro 8:1 AV)

The point of the comment you keep referring to (and can never understand as one who rejects Christ)is that one cannot serve both the desires and trappings of wealth and serve God at the same time. That does not mean that wealth is evil or even undesirable. It means that one must steward their resources in a manner that always glorifies God rather than exalting men. It is why the love of money and not money itself is the root of all evil.

These are not ideas you can fathom and based on the vitriol that is revealed in every one of your replies, it is better others learn from those who actually understand the concepts.

by travelah on 11/20 at 07:21 PM
TOPIC: America must confront its own fu…

Seriously travelah, are you drunk? There are plenty of wealthy characters in the bible. That does not change the fact that as I proved beyond question, Jesus, who hung out with panhandlers openly condemned wealth over and over again. Considering the fact that panhandlers were his chosen people, it is pretty safe to say that he certainly wouldn’t approve of your twisted beliefs about wealth.

Why do you go on with your paranoid delusional nonsense about statist fundamentalists when I just rationally, and incontrovertibly proved that that is completely absurd? Again, for me to be a statist fundamentalist, I would have to believe in complete control and infallibility of the state. I have never advocated anything even remotely like that, nor would I. It is all in your paranoid-delusional imagination, and that’s why you are completely unable to support your arguments with anything beside smokescreens and diversions.

The jump from being in favor of universal healthcare to a fundamentalist belief in the infallibility of the state is absurd to the point of insanity, even for you.

There are no communists and immigrants hiding in your bushes travelah. Nancy Pelosi does not have a secret plan to destroy healthcare. Obama is not a Kenyan Islamic mole. Homosexuals are not conspiring to force you into compulsory gay marriage, and they are not part of a Satanic plot. Black Panthers do not eat babies. It’s all in your head travelah, and there may be medications that can help you. For real.

by entopticon on 11/20 at 07:02 PM
TOPIC: America must confront its own fu…

I personally am looking forward to your revelation of your experience with the liberal aspects of Antartic Pigmies.

Abraham was a wealthy man but of course there is no need for logic to prevail among the Statist Fundamentalists. As for all that time with the Mennonites, I should suppose you were an intruder for it is pretty certain none of their good character seems to have rubbed off.
Mennonite speech and attitudes are generally peaceful and they are pacifists to a fault (at least in outward appearances). They are not a derogatory people with regard to other sects even though they have a history of being persecuted. One thing they are for certain are conservative envangelicals. Another thing for certain they are not are religious fundamentalists.

by travelah on 11/20 at 06:44 PM
TOPIC: America must confront its own fu…

What a modest proposal Mr. Swift ;)

by lilith on 11/20 at 06:14 PM
TOPIC: Say and eat what you want