Balls and Walnuts
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Sunday Sermon
I think the best sermons are the ones which stir us to be better people.
Devilstower: With God on Our Side.
When you’re too busy trying not to lose, you may win elections now and then, but you rarely advance those causes you’re supposed to care about. Â We’ve reached the point where Republican voters can claim the philosophy of absolute greed.
“I make a great deal of money through my own hard work. Â I don’t want to pay for someone else’s child to eat breakfast at school anymore.”
Get that? Â She makes not just enough money, but a “great deal of money.” Â How dare anyone take it away for something so frivolous as feeding a poor child? Â And yet Republicans, through their actions in blurring the lines between church and state, have become the “party of faith.” Â Because they say so. Â Because they are bold in their actions and snarling in their defense.
We need to be just as adamant. Â We need to not hide behind any abstraction or evasion. Â We need to be unafraid to address this voter and say “I am going to take some of your money, and give it to that poor kid, because it’s more important — both to the child and to society — that he eat, rather than that you have an extra week in Cabo.”
Sure it’s political. But politics is just personal morality (or immorality) on the grand scale, right?
D.
And yet, the Democrats seem to be running away from any sense of morality whatsoever… What kind of moral high ground can we claim? I’m not a believer in any sense of the term, but there are times when I think the Bible verse “For what does it profit a man” should be branded on the forehead of every elected official in the nation. In mirror script.
I know, I know, I know. But to effect change, what viable alternative do we have?
There’s always Canada . . .
Um…
I can’t find the quote – “I make a great deal of money through my own hard work. I don’t want to pay for someone else’s child to eat breakfast at school anymore.†– anywhere EXCEPT in places that quoted from Daily Kos (and that Daily Kos article itself). It’s certainly not in the ‘absolute greed’ article that was linked.
Ooooh. It’s AUDIO.
answer: Yup.
Now comes the really, really uncalled for observation. The thing that would rightfully get me banned from blogs–I bet the woman who said that calls herself a Christian.
What is it about the basic tenets of Christianity that don’t get through to so many of its followers says the Pastafarian? (I’ve taken to listing FSM as my religion because I can)
and why can’t I fucking write coherent sentences any more? I’m going to sleep. And when I wake up tomorrow I’ll blame the lack of coffee.
last comment. Dude.
How come you didn’t celebrate your half-millionth visitor??? Look at your sitemeter!
I’d be a Pastafarian too, Kate, but the carb load is too high, and I get a sore throat saying Arrrrrr.
I’d be in that too, but I’m touchy about the size of my light sabre.
I, too, need to get one of those Pastafarian fishies for my car.
I think I commented on 500,000 on one of my other threads? Anyway, how should I celebrate? Have another contest, perhaps?
This, if anything, is what is going to sink single-payer healthcare in the US, that stubborn portion of the population that has got theirs, and doesn’t want to share. Fuck everyone else.
Really? You don’t want to feed a child? A CHILD? You could have picked a better example of the evils of socialism (which, as everyone knows, is kissin’ cousins with Godless Communism). You could have said that you didn’t want to pay for a fat person’s heart bypass. Or that you didn’t want to pay for rehab for some addict. It’s easy to get people to ignore those people. But a child?
You really don’t want to pay for someone else’s child to eat? Your self-centered greed stretches that far?
I should make it clear that I am addressing the anonymous person that is quoted in the article Doug links above. Was it clear? I hope it was clear.
Yes, Dean, clear as can be 😉