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geardaddy

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Thu Apr 3, 2014, 05:24 PM Apr 2014

Wonkette: Tea Party Jesus Likes Income Inequality Just Fine, Says Wingnut

And the Lord said, "Get a job ya bum!"

Well here is a big change! Tea Party Unity head man Rick Scarborough is talking about something other than buttsex! This is unusual, because he really likes to talk about buttsex. But instead, he — or rather, his guest on a Tea Party Unity webcast, former California state Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian, talked about Jesus and how the Prince of Peace is opposed to reducing income inequality, because it says so right in the Bible. Kaloogian explained this a bit further:

I think it’s clear that God has a position on many of the things we deem political today, from life to theft to the doctrine of covetousness, which by the way seems to be the promotion of the left. You know, they talk about “income inequality,” well what is that but covetousness? So how could somebody support that cause if they’re biblical believing Christians?

It’s so true! The poors might start coveting $10 an hour, and then where would we be? It’s just like that time when Jesus told the multitude, “Damn you, stop coveting my loaves and fishes! Get out! MINE!” Heaven knows that there’s nothing covetous about simply wanting to pile up more and more wealth for yourself — we just dare you to find Jesus saying a single word about that.


Read more at http://wonkette.com/545636/tea-party-jesus-likes-income-inequality-just-fine-says-wingnut#GaKa6hio8e8hesic.99
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Wonkette: Tea Party Jesus Likes Income Inequality Just Fine, Says Wingnut (Original Post) geardaddy Apr 2014 OP
Dear Mr. Scarborough gratuitous Apr 2014 #1
Well said. geardaddy Apr 2014 #2

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1. Dear Mr. Scarborough
Thu Apr 3, 2014, 05:47 PM
Apr 2014

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the Bible, despite your claims.

"The plunder of the poor is in your houses." Any idea who said that? And why?

"As it is written, 'The person who had much did not have too much, and the person who had little did not have too little.'" Do you know who wrote that Mr. Scarborough, and what he was quoting? Because it looks to me like precisely an argument against income inequality.

Shouldn't biblical believing Christians support the Bible?

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