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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:13 PM Original message |
Who Would Jesus Deny Healthcare For? -- Obama Evokes Religious Leaders To Support HCR |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm guessing maybe the people who nailed him onto that cross, at least. |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I don't think Jesus would deny even those people healthcare |
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polmaven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Exactly... |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
61. ROFL, even Bill Oreilly agrees. |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 07:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
63. Jesus healed the slave of a Roman centurion. |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. Evil liberals, selfish gays, stupid "journalists," non-whites in America |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why should they support a pro for-profit bill w/o a PO? |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I wish DUers weren't so uninformed. The current bill has a PO. Obama has said there will be. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Fantastic! Can you please post links that verify that in an absolute sense? Thanks |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Look for yourself: |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Thanks!...and no sarcasm was intended. I keep hearing opposite data... |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Sounds more promising, but I'm not reading anything that sounds like the PO is beyond "negotiation" |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
11. In Matthew 15, Jesus refused to heal the Canaanite woman because she wasn't a Jew. |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. But he did heal her after she conviced him to. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Yep. After she groveled at his feet, he relented and healed her daughter. |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Total misrepresentation of the story. Please keep your interpretation to yourself |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Why should I keep my interpretation to myself? |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:36 PM Response to Reply #17 |
28. What about all the sick and lame hanging out at the "angel pool" in John 5:1-19 ?? |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. What? That's not the story at all. Thanks for misquoting the Bible while slandering Jesus |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. First off, you cannot "slander" a fictional being, and Jesus was by all accounts fictional. |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 07:14 PM Response to Reply #20 |
62. so sad, do we believe this account? if you so, definately raises questions of one's |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
57. Do you get a call or, like, a bat symbol whenever the word Jesus is used here? |
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stuball111 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. Makes sense.. Canadian Universal Health care was started by... |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
16. lepers, for one |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. LOL! That's funny. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. His throwing the moneylenders out of the temple might give us an indication. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. And if Obama meant it when he calls reform a ‘Moral Obligation’ |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:35 AM Response to Reply #22 |
64. I absolutely agree. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Setting aside the fact that the "non-violent" Jesus made a whip and beat people |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:37 AM Response to Reply #25 |
65. Methinks thou dost protest too much. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. No, I think that people automatically cut religious figures a ton of |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 01:08 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Not being religious, you're not going to bother me. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #68 |
70. The contradictions don't bother me as much as the basic message |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
23. Didn't Jesus get into trouble for healing someone on the Sabbath? |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Yeah, right here John 5:1-19.... As usual though there's more to the story.... |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Again, I love how people read stuff that isn't there |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Let's check it out and see..... |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:20 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. A more troubling aspect of this tale are Jesus' words to the man: |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Or, maybe he cured him of syphilis, which would make the |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:27 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. If one believes sex is sinful. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #40 |
48. Back when this was translated in the Middle Ages they |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #48 |
58. To "sin" means to miss the point, or , "mark". |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #48 |
66. Making up impotent? That's the word used in the verse as cited above. |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #37 |
60. Translation: keep doing stupid things and your life will get worse. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:01 PM Response to Reply #32 |
47. And no religious leader or common believer ever reads anything into the Bible? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. You only have to read this thread to see all kinds of made up stuff. n/t |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
24. Jesus was a non-profit health care provider. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
26. Deleted message |
texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:20 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Why are you on this board? |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
46. Point of order: |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. Well, the Bible was put together by politicians so what do you expect? |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:43 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. don't mind me...... |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:46 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. I have a Master of Divinity from the oldest Protestant graduate school of theology in the US, |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. 1. You don't know Jesus |
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DemsForWin (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Feeble minded people resort to insulting those with.... |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #39 |
52. Again do your homework, Sparky. |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:09 PM Response to Reply #39 |
54. People are entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. |
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Engineer4Obama (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #39 |
56. Funny You use Michael Moore's home town and |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. Did you read the same NT I did? |
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DemsForWin (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. That is false........ |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:57 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. I think the 'works alone' should be a big hint. He did expect 'works', too.n/t |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:57 PM Response to Reply #41 |
59. Here's a good one: |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. Jesus and his disciples were a bunch of freeloaders. |
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dustbunnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:42 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. I have to stop reading your posts. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:51 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Well, at least you get that religion is something to be laughed at. |
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dustbunnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #44 |
53. And you do! |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #26 |
51. Do your homework because people here are too smart to fall for your |
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Engineer4Obama (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
55. Jesus: |
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kctim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
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