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| Friday, February 11, 2011 3:59PM | | | | The unChristian Right | Tags: poor, sick, undocumented, prayer, charitable deeds, enemies, divorce, homosexuality, taxes, fear
| | | | When Jesus announced his mission on earth he declared that he had come to bring good news to the poor (Luke 4:18). The Christian Right brings bad news to the poor. You are poor because you were born in the wrong place, to inferior parents, of an unblessed color, lacking a superior IQ, devoid of desirable skills, and lazy. If God favored you, you would not have been denied prenatal care, health care, endorsed diets, equal education, equal opportunity, entitlement to a lavish inheritance. If God didn’t like you, why should those whom God favored like you?
Jesus asked his followers not to pray in public (Matt. 6: 5, 6). The Christian right demands prayer in schools and other public places.
Jesus told his followers to do... | | | | | | | Sunday, May 3, 2009 9:54AM | | | | Neil Gaiman: Books and Imagination | Tags: graphic novel, boundaries, boycots, homosexuality, freedom, libraries, rules
| | | What wit! from his boots to his expressive face and anecdotes, Neil Gaiman is surely one of the most entertaining of performers and well as writers. I loved his telling about his reading while walking along as a child (of course we all did that) and bumping into a lamp post to which he would apologize (we didn't think of doing that, alas). And about the local librarians worried that he would let on he was a feral child entirely raised by them: they would get used as a day care center.
He enjoyed, said he, writing comics, because they had only been around 100 years instead of 3000, so there were no rules, and he was therefore free. The ultimate compliment paid... | | | | | | | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:52PM | | | | David & Bathsheba | Tags: marriage, homosexuality, adultery, murder, war
| | | | If you’ve seen the movie you know that King David was a mighty warrior, a great king, a great lover, and his great love was Bathsheba.
If you attended the Sunday School classes I did you also knew that David committed a great sin. He allowed himself to be seduced by a temptress.
The men and women of the Bible were a sorry lot. The women were wanton, the men helpless to a woman’s smile. Adam ate whatever Eve gave him to eat. Lot’s daughters got him drunk so that he was unable to avoid incest. Samson allowed Delilah to trim his hair. Hebrew bucks were seduced into idolatry by Moabite women. And King David was taffy when he saw Bathsheba.
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