just what "bible" the freeps are reading. The Old and New Testaments are chock-full of lessons and admonitions regarding remembering one's duty to the poor.

Oh, wait.. that's right... they don't read. They just nod their heads and repeat whatever Faux or some scallawag preacha tells them to repeat. No need for thought, introspection, or any of that hard reedin'-stuff.

It seems to me that right wingers are exactly the sort of people who'll trespass into your backyard and steal the sheets off your line and the wood off the side of your shed. Then they'll go burn a cross in the yard of someone they don't know and beat them with a bible they don't read.

Shit. The safety net is biblical.

Oh wait ...

Even in the Old Testament there was the policy of gleaning for the poor and travelers, the concept of hospitality to house the traveler and the year of Jubilee reverting lands to their original owner..also every 7 years debts were forgiven.

NT: food the hungry, give water to thirsty, visit the captives, clothe the naked
The Beattitudes: blessed are the poor.

Every major progressive denomination as a statement on poverty.
The Methodist Church had the first social creed 1908

Roman Catholics 1891 Rerum Norvarum "Dignity in Labor"

RC National Conference of Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter on the Economy
reminded folks of Christ's Preferential Option For the Poor

Unitarians: 1964 Statement on the economy

1989 ELCA (Lutherans): statement condemning poverty and not helping the poor)

2004 PCUSA (Presbyterians): Staterment on poverty and responsibility to help the poor.

I don't think they ever have.

PPACA will get "S" on medicaid - every family (even families of one) - who are up to 133% of poverty - will qualify for medicaid.

But still - if the "Religious Right" are stating that the safety net is un-biblical, they have obviously not read the Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 10, verses 25-37. Otherwise known as the parable of the Good Samaritan. I say the government acting by providing a safety net *is* biblical, because the priest (a.k.a. the "religious right&quot passed by the person in need.

and then we have these Republican assholes candidates vowing to get rid of PPACA as soon as they become pwesident. I was on a town hall meeting call with Mittens (long story short is we have a registered Repub at our house who never changed his registration address when he moved and we get all the calls). Mitt repeatedly said he will sign an executive order allowing the states to opt out of the health care law if he is elected pwesident. Gingrich has said the same thing.

He can't come back, because he's spent the last 2,000 years crying over what's been done in his name.

that might be something Christ would do...

ridiculing the teachings of modern American Christianity and those who follow them. Dishonest, bloated, jingoistic, self-serving, praying loud in the market place, sanctimonious bunch of Pharisees and moneychangers. Corrupt tools. AND those who stand by them silently without condemning this vicious bunch might as well join them because they are part of the denigration of true humanistic teachings at the core of teachings this faith is based upon.

and James 1: 27 and Micah 6: 8 and Luke 16: 19?

Helping those in need is unBiblical?