[Vision2020] Merry Christmas

[Tom Hansen]

God is coming back and she is pissed!

 

Tom Hansen

I'm straight, but I'm not narrow.

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of keely emerinemix
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:58 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; auntiestablishment at hotmail.com; Tbertruss at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Merry Christmas

 

I don't think Jesus Christ would have been asked to address the GOP
convention, and I think his biggest detractors, if he were here today, would
be the religious right.  Further, I think Jesus was a liberal in the social
sense and wouldn't recognize -- certainly not approve of -- the politics of
some of his most vocal followers.  Above all, and what I've been trying to
say, is that he wouldn't do what he did because of adherence to a
philosophical point on the spectrum; he transcends these things and has left
us to wrestle with whether we want to be right, left, or on the
50-yard-line, OR if we want to be righteous.

 

And my testpoint for that is:  how does it affect the "least of these" in
society, and does it glorify God in spirit and in truth?

 

Nope.  The Bush tax cut just didn't . . . cut it.

 

keely

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Keely et. al.

What stand would Christ take on the huge tax cuts of the Bush administration
giving billions back to the ultra-rich while working single mothers with
children can barely "survive" on minimum wage ($5.15 hr.) jobs?

And if your answer is that he would have wanted to give some of those
billions to the hard working deserving poor, rather than back to the
ultra-rich, and/or raise the minimum wage, I don't care what path Christ
would have taken to shed "labels," the Religious Right in the USA would
plaster him with a big sign declaring him a "tax and spend liberal."  Well,
that is, unless they knew who he was, or who he was claiming to be, in which
case they might label him a fraud, or actually be shamed into facing their
betrayal of Christ's values.

If your answer is that Christ would have approved of the Bush administration
tax cuts, and all they imply, and/or that he would not advocate raising the
minimum wage, I am wrong.

Ted Moffett

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