Pat Oliphant for December 15, 2011

Oh, Pat. Since when would it be possible to equate the Holy Family as socialists? Your vision is beyond wrong.

You are your brother’s keeper is certainly socialist….works for Him, works for me…now lets see how that would work if we all actually put it into practice….ah ha….almost heaven.

Free health care, sharing everything… Jesus certainly was a socialist.

Notice how Callista’s hand is on newt’s?

You can define just about anything as ‘socialist.’ Public schools, police, public roads, even a govn’t run military. The far right uses it so much it’s lost all meaning.

Responsible folks woulda guaranteed their reservation with a charge card.Eh, Newtie?

Jesus must not have had health insurance worth bragging about, considering he died so young……..

Brilliant, as usual.

Pat has Newt and Calista’s likenesses nailed.

I scoffed at the folks on FOOD STAMPS when I was younger,,,,,then one day I had to apply for FOOD STAMPS,,,,,then one day I had to eat out of a garbage can…..then one day I WOKE UP!

I like the tiny Christmas tree to match his tiny Christmas spirit.

For those of you who don’t think Christianity is compatible with socialism, I suggest you read Acts and note carefully how the first Christians behaved based on Christ’s teachings.

the reason they had to travel was gov taxes and joseph was willing to pay for lodging

Lest we forget, Jesus WAS a Jew, and yes socialist. Now as to our only “friend” in the Middle East, may we consider kibbutz and the fact that eastern block communists were the real founders, movers and shakers in that little “operation”? I love it when righties condemn socialists with one hand, and support them without question with the other.

What’s the difference between Newt Gingrich and God? God doesn’t think he’s Newt Gingrich.-——http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/whats-difference-between-newt-gingrich-and-god

“And what I would like to know from the Conservatives is why welfare destroys initiative, makes people lazy, and makes them dependent on the givers but charity doesn’t.”

Don’t you get it? The purpose of Charity is to give good Christians opportunities to improve their souls’ standing. That there must be a recipient for the Charity is therefore necessary, but frankly beside the point. If social Welfare programs actually do what they’re designed to do, it deprives Christians of their chance to earn that Merit Badge. Christians need an ample supply of poverty the same way Boy Scouts need little old ladies, and streets to help them cross. “The poor will be with you always” isn’t just an unfortunate truth, it’s a necessary market condition for what they’re selling.

After all, before there were Food Stamps, subsidized housing, and Medicare, nobody was ever hungry, homeless, or sick; the Christians had it all under control before Big Gummint butted in.

If Christ was anything, he was a socialist as He cared for the masses and prayed for the egomaniacs of the right.

Newt the Grinch is equivalent to Caesar at his best; therefore if Newt is nominated and elected, the knowing, the caring, and the compassionate are left with little hope for the future.

It’s the same rationale by which Christians need to be persecuted (or at least feel that they are), since that allows them to be martyrs.

Jesus’ purpose on earth was not to give universal health care, but to give us a chance for salvation through grace. It’s free, all one has to do is accept. Otherwise the choice is Hell, something he mentioned about 13 times in the Bible alone.

“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. For 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, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“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. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I 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.’

“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?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Matthew 25:34-45

Salvation: It’s not just WHO you know, it’s WHAT you know.

It’s also interesting how many things Jesus said about caring for others, was said hundreds of years earlier by the Buddha. Of course it’s also interesting that many of the myths in the bible appear nowhere else, yet many others are based on what was even then centuries old myths from prior “civilizations”. I guess, “What goes around, comes around”?

dtroutma, there’s not an ounce of truth on your post.

“When they tell me that Jesus taught a gospel of love, I say I believe it. Plato taught a gospel of love before him, and you deny it. If they say, Jesus taught that it is better to bear an injury than to retaliate, I say, yes, but so did Aristotle before Jesus was born. I will accept it as the statement of Jesus if you will admit that Aristotle said it too. I am willing that any man should come before us and say, Jesus taught that you must love your enemies, it is written in the Bible; but, if he will open the old manuscript of Diogenes Laertus, he may there read in texts that have never been disputed, that the Greek philosophers, half a dozen of them, said the same before Jesus was born.”– Col. Thomas W. Higginson

“It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith”- John Stuart Mill, Liberty

So, SABRSteve, how are YOU going to be celebrating Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, the Birth of the Unconquered Sun, this December 25th?

Well, I’d list Conservative Christians, Replicants, and the followers of Ayn Rand (assuming the last two groups are not coterminous).

For instance, pschearer’s idea of compassion for the poor is a quick kill…