Amazing response written on another blog--must read

Posted by: Trainwasher on November 21, 2005 at 07:27pm

I knew this was a multi-headed beast, but reading this scares the shit out of me. I was hoping we could take back the government by peaceful means, but it may take blood in the streets to kill this beast. I consider myself a Christian because I try to follow the walk of Christ. But I am not a turn-the-other-cheek christian, I am a flog and throw them out of the temple christian.

When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

For years the right wing-nuts have used this to warn against the welfare state, but that is not what is bankrupting this country. It is the Military-industrial complex. It is the wealthy who are robbing from the working class of this and generations to come. They use the religious right-wing nuts as their soldiers because they never question what they are told. They follow mindlessly. If they read the bible they would know Matthew 25: 31 to 46 which reads:
Matthew 25:31-46 (New International Version)
The Sheep and the Goats
31"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
Guess who is going to heaven and who is going to burn in hell with the Bushies?

As always one who is still sane.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/the-texas-observer-_b_10990.html

:shrug:

Thanks for posting this. He has a consistently clear, wonderful, and intellectually ravishing perspective. He's a Christian who truly understands and sees. He knows the difference between the Bible and the buy-bull.