Take This Prosperity Gospel and Shove It

Our guest columnist is a Seventeenth Century writing committee. President Obama quoted the last line — Luke 12:48 — at this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast.

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

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nojo
1:47 pm • Thursday • February 2, 2012
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JNOV is like, Peace?

7:31 pm • Thursday • February 2, 2012

Clothing rent asunder is fun. Stripes, not so much.

“By his stripes we are healed.” Errrr.

Dodgerblue

8:47 pm • Thursday • February 2, 2012

I bought a couple of “widow’s mites” when I was in Jerusalem and gave one to my assistant, a devout Christian. I figure that ought to shave a few years off my sentence in Hell.

SanFranLefty

10:07 pm • Thursday • February 2, 2012

I’m not religious or raised in any religion, but I’ve always been a big fan of Matthew 25:34-45, and especially 25:45 for whipping out against self-proclaimed Christians who shit on the poor, furriners, prisoners, etc.:

I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.

DElurker

10:59 am • Friday • February 3, 2012

Jesus Christ
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

Jesus Christ was a man who traveled through the land
A hard-working man and brave
He said to the rich, “Give your money to the poor,”
But they laid Jesus Christ in His grave

Jesus was a man, a carpenter by hand
His followers true and brave
One dirty little coward called Judas Iscariot
Has laid Jesus Christ in His Grave

He went to the preacher, He went to the sheriff
He told them all the same
“Sell all of your jewelry and give it to the poor,”
And they laid Jesus Christ in His grave.

When Jesus come to town, all the working folks around
Believed what he did say
But the bankers and the preachers, they nailed Him on the cross,
And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

And the people held their breath when they heard about his death
Everybody wondered why
It was the big landlord and the soldiers that they hired
To nail Jesus Christ in the sky

This song was written in New York City
Of rich man, preacher, and slave
If Jesus was to preach what He preached in Galilee,
They would lay poor Jesus in His grave.

Take This Prosperity Gospel and Shove It

Obama: Jesus would tax the rich [Politico, via Political Wire]

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