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Statue Of A Homeless Jesus Startles A Wealthy Community [NPR goes for class warfare]
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| April 13, 2014
| John Burnett
Posted on 04/13/2014 11:32:14 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
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To: Alter Kaker
Other than lining the pockets of the sculptor what,exactly, do they think this is going to accomplish?
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:36:54 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: Alter Kaker
iirc Jesus WAS homeless...
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:37:04 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Alter Kaker
They can go to any major city and see homeless people. Why pay $22,000 for a fake one.
Heck, for a couple hundred they could rent a bus and bring fifty homeless people right to their own town square and enjoy the real thing.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:37:22 AM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Alter Kaker
Jesus was poor, not destitute. He was itinerant, not homeless. He was a God, come among us, not a sinful human.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:38:09 AM PDT
by
amihow
To: Chode
He was only homeless because he left his home to preach. He was a skilled laborer in Nazareth prior to his public ministry.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:38:30 AM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Alter Kaker
this is very silly - especially since the resurrected Jesus is depicted.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:39:37 AM PDT
by
jtal
(Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
To: Alter Kaker
Seeing Jesus as a humble man who denied himself of worldly comforts is a good thing.
But trying to align the character of Jesus with the common day bum is wrong.
Bums who come off the streets, drugs and alcohol...and who also find Jesus...do not inhabit park benches.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:41:00 AM PDT
by
Awgie
(truth is always stranger than fiction)
To: Alter Kaker
That theme has been done before that I have seen, not in a statue but in a prayerbook where they might show someone poor and say “Jesus Falls the First Time” as in going up Calvary. I do believe that we are commanded to love the least of our brothers and in reason I try to do that. That doesn’t mean to let people off the hook for fallen lifestyles. Some of your homeless perhaps can’t help themselves.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:41:37 AM PDT
by
BeadCounter
(Without the C, there is no need for the Coexist bumpersticker.)
To: Alter Kaker
Carpenters I. Those days are solid middle class and donkeys were for the wealthy elite
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:41:47 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Jim from C-Town
Why not use the $22,000 to feed the homeless? It’s telling that political points score higher on the charity scale for this church than real people do.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:46:29 AM PDT
by
DPMD
To: Jim from C-Town
that's my point... he was traveling and spreading the word of his Father for most of his life so i fail to see what point they are trying to make, i guess there isn't one, especially if it is supposed to be POST crucifixion, then he did have a home, and went there
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:46:59 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Alter Kaker
Jesus was a carpenter, not an envious, lazy, taker, nor a mentally disabled person, nor someone with a dysfunctional immediate and extended family, and he and His family had many good and societally functional friends who would have given Him work to do to earn His keep if He weren’t capable, but He was a capable, competent, perhaps excellent carpenter because Joseph, his mentor, and foster father, would have taught Him very well, not only to be a carpenter but to manage His resources.
THis is class envy and complete ignorance. And, BTW, envy is a deadly sin - Every time, not just under certain circumstances. Envy causes death. It causes inc\action and lack of resources.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:48:02 AM PDT
by
stanne
To: Alter Kaker
Jesus gave His life for the world and gave the ultimate. There are ways of giving that do not involve money and giving can take place in such ways as:
Giving of one's time.
Giving of one's talent.
Serving the elderly.
Doing any kind of good deed for another.
Praying for others.
Visiting the sick.
Visiting prisoners.
Doing work for others for free.
Giving food.
Giving clothing.
And the ways in which people can give are endless. Most often people think in terms of giving money as if giving money is a form of "Holiness". Having compassion for other human beings is a vital part of following Jesus Christ and Christ had this to say in Matthew 25: "Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungry, and you gave Me meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: Naked, and you clothed Me: I was sick, and you visited Me: I was in prison, and You came unto Me.
Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink? When saw we you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and clothed you? Or when saw we you sick, or in prison, and came unto you?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto Me."
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:48:09 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be," -Epitap)
To: amihow
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:48:24 AM PDT
by
353FMG
To: Alter Kaker
Jesus didn’t beg for money.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:49:43 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: Alter Kaker
Too bad it wasn’t a homeless Mohammed
To: stanne
THis is class envy and complete ignorance. And, BTW, envy is a deadly sin Probably the most deadly one of all......100 million deaths in the 20th Century from Communism is proof.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:50:02 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Alter Kaker
I’ll bet that church never put up a Christmas creche there.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:50:50 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: DPMD
“Why not use the $22,000 to feed the homeless?”
Uh, because when you “feed” homeless, they are hungry again. I am not justifying how $22K is spent, but feeding homeless and other wealth re-distribution schemes are liberal masturbatory hallucinations.
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posted on
04/13/2014 11:56:23 AM PDT
by
sagar
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