Posted on 05/18/2019 3:52:15 PM PDT by McQ444
Media sensation Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has landed herself in another bucket of hot water. This time she tried to mock conservative Christian, and completely botched Bible scripture.Daily Wire reported that Pastor Mark Burns noted Ocasio-Cortez’s claims were not accurate, highlighting that she lacked key context about scripture.“In context, usury in the Old Testament was when a fellow Jew would charge interest to a fellow Jew. There was no requirement set for interest on a loan to those outside the household of faith,” Burns said. “For example, after the Babylonian captivity, the Jews were rebuilding their homes and needed money. There were wealthy Jews who allowed their brothers to borrow money yet charged them interest, which was forbidden in the law God gave Moses. Thus, Nehemiah and Ezra informed the lenders they must remove the interest charges, which they did.”
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“News Thud”????
What are you, a posting bot for every goofball blog out there?
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“This would be similar to a son or daughter borrowing a thousand dollars and the mom or dad charging interest,” Burns continued. “It is something that most families would never do. This is the same principle God established for the Jews among their brothers. They were all in a covenant family.”
“Even Christ said in a parable to take money and invest it to have more income and thus use interest or gains from profit to your benefit,” Burns added. “It is normal, however, if there is interest charged on someone who is an associate that borrows for his business. This also assists in motivating the borrower to pay back the loan back as delayed payments can increase the charges.”
On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez attacked Republicans’ Christian beliefs, calling them “far-right” and “creepy.”
“What angers me about the GOP’s attempts to turn the United States into a far-right Christian theocracy is how dishonest they are about it,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “At least be forthright about your desire to subvert and dismantle our democracy into a creepy theological order led by a mad king.”
You may recall last year, AOC attacked Israel, and then afterwards, admitted she was actually ignorant on the issue.
This woman is emblematic of the Democratic Party. She is a neo pagan feminist. Feminism at its core is an anti fertility cult. Unfortunately the majority of people in her district are uneducated and government dependent. She will be reelected despite her blatant stupidity and ignorance. She does not exist in a social or political vacuum.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that the area that she represents has noone with an I.Q. above room temperature....
She can’t decide: first, she says Christianity is creepy. Then she says all Americans should do the Christian thing and not charge interest because Bible.
What she really means is, “My two muslim BFFs Ilan and Rashida say that shari’a doesn’t allow interest, so... and besides, interest is part of capitalism that we want to destroy.”
I doubt that cortez ever read a bible. If she did, she didn’t understand it.
I doubt that cortez ever read a bible. If she did, she didn’t understand it.
AOC is a barking @sshole!!!!!!!!!
LOL!!
bkmk
Remember that half of all the people you meet are of less than average intelligence.
We call those people “Democrats”.
Actually, if you are going to loan your kids money and want to stay out of hot water with the IRS, it behooves you to charge your kids interest.
Whenever my mom lent us money, it was strictly business. And we've done the same with our kids.
The nice thing about a personal loan like that, is that we are not going to come and repossess if they are a little late in paying us.
They do it as they can and it works for us.
But then again, we raised them to be pretty financially responsible.
She’d probably react to the Bible like Dracula would to a cross.
How much longer can the Democratic party survive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
There are many Christians in the Democratic party and also many anti-Christians. Everyone got along fine because no Democratic Congressperson has ever, until now, stood up and publicly attacked Christianity. Thanks to AOC and her recent anti-Christian diatribes, along with the fact that no pro-Christian Congresspersons have spoken up to oppose her, the Democratic party can now be considered anti-Christian.
Similarly, the Democratic party became known as the party of anti-Semitism after two Muslim Congresswomen made statements attacking Israel and the Jews and the Democratic Congress refused to approve a resolution condemning those who made the statements.
What’s next? Everyone knows that large segments of the Democrats hate men, hate White people, hate America; however, until AOC and the Muslim sisters came on the scene Democratic hatreds were not exposed to the extent of defining the Democratic party. A typically mean, over-the-top public attack on men now from the lips of AOC which no Democratic men stood up to oppose would officially brand the Democrats as the Anti-Men party. The sooner the better.
I read this far...
“There are many Christians in the Democratic party”
and came to full stop. No need to read further.
Maybe back in the days of Truman there were Christians in the democrat party. After voting God out at their national convention, and an endless string of anti-Christian, anti-Bible positions they have taken, it is impossible for any true Christian to exist in the dim party.
Almost Occasional Cortex has difficulty with simple things...
Intelligence testing for candidates is called for...
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