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A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and a psychotherapist in Berkeley.
1 posted on 04/17/2010 11:53:09 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian

As far as I recall the only way to God was through Jesus.


2 posted on 04/17/2010 11:56:09 PM PDT by GeronL (Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
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To: Brugmansian

I do not think Jesus would teach us that it is a virtue to be generous with other people’s money.


3 posted on 04/18/2010 12:00:20 AM PDT by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com--I've gone rogue!)
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To: Brugmansian
a psychotherapist in Berkeley

I'll bet he stays busy...

4 posted on 04/18/2010 12:01:14 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Brugmansian

Jesus never took anything from anyone and gave it to someone else.


5 posted on 04/18/2010 12:15:43 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Brugmansian
Their efforts having failed miserably (about 80% of all Americans still identity as Christian), so they turn to plan B: Contaminate the Word of God.

There is a plan C, almost as old as Creation, so we know their playbook. Contaminate Creation itself. It's happened before. It'll happen again, heralding the end of the age.

As in the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

6 posted on 04/18/2010 12:17:31 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Brugmansian
Was Jesus a libertarian?
7 posted on 04/18/2010 12:22:34 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Brugmansian

I hope this writer’s not implying Obama could be Jesus.


8 posted on 04/18/2010 12:25:48 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: Brugmansian
So many of the "Social Justice" crowd focus on just a couple of verses and evolve their entire theology from this.

The Bible tells us that Jesus is the Word. Which means the Old Testament also.

The Old Testament tells us that a good parent leaves an inheritance for their children.

It tells us to pursue wisdom and flee from folly.

By wisdom a house/home is built.

By wisdom prosperity is made.

Foolishness or folly lead to ruin and dispair.

The wise man built his home on the rock, the fool on the sands. That when the storms came, the fools house was swept away, but the wise mans house was safe.

The Bible teaches us that there are consequeces, good or bad, for our actions.

The Bible tells us the all good gifts and blessings are from God. If God were marxist, would he not bless all equally?

The Bible tells us that if we live a certain way, he will bless us, which means if we don't live that way he won't bless us. Again that inequality thing.

The Bible talks about money or possesions more than any other single thing. It tells how to aquire it, and what to do with it.

Proverbs 31 tells of a dillegent, virtuous woman. She gets up early to prepare food for her family and servants. NEXT she considers a field and buys it. Then she plants a vineyard. AND YET she's already fed her family and servants, and still she buys a field and plants a vineyard FOR MORE? Then it tells us her and her family wear fine clothes.

The Bible teaches ANYTHING BUT marxism, and has nothing to do with todays "Social Justice".

10 posted on 04/18/2010 12:34:07 AM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Brugmansian
Was Jesus a Marxist?

What can I say? Of course Jesus was here to preach the gospel of Karl and Marx. Of course Jesus was here to promote the superiority of the state over God. It's beyond question that Jesus wanted the state to enforce it's own morality as determined by the political wind and rob man of his free will to serve God of his own accord rather than being compelled to do so by central planning for the purpose of wealth redistribution. I heard it on ABC, NBC and CBS donchaknow?

14 posted on 04/18/2010 12:57:47 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Social justice? Why who can be against justice? But the so-called “social justice” clap-trap is just the old “social gospel” tarted up and anxious for a new beau.
Call it the Being Good by Doing Good philosophy.

The great problem with such a philosophy is that those who practice it try to choose what “good” they will do and how they will do it.

Jesus defined the priorities of Christian justice and those who touted their powerful works in his name were rejected as “lawless” while others gave their tenth of the mint and the dill and the cummin but disregarded the weightier matters of the Law such as justice, mercy and faithfulness.

Was Jesus a Marxist? It was Micah's prophecy that under Christ's rule each would sit under his own vine and fig tree not one rented from the state.

15 posted on 04/18/2010 1:01:28 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Priests who preach “social justice” are like government bureaucrats and politicians. They don’t work in the real world. They have a secure salary which comes from a vast entity. There is little chance that they will lose their jobs, so they can afford the luxury of lofty thoughts. Like aristocrat philosophers, they think they can solve all the world’s problems from the comfort of their armchairs.


16 posted on 04/18/2010 1:07:48 AM PDT by giotto
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To: Brugmansian

No, Jesus was not a Marxist. The distinction may be made by a discussion of Marxist vs Christian altruism. Ayn Rand made such a distinction in regard to free nation-states emphasizing support and celebration of individual endeavors, rather than the group only endeavors demanded by Marxism. Jesus and Christianity focus on the individual and his right and duty to be charitable in and of himself, with the personal, reward of self-satisfaction, not compelled by group pressure and thus devoid of human dignity and joy of having been expected by others to something good and being judged by them. An excerpt from an article:

“Altruism, on the contrary, requires each individual to live for the sake of the group, trusting that his or her own needs will be provided for. Altruism typically holds that individual fulfillment occurs through service to others; most religions openly state this, and it is a driving force in socialism and communism, too. Altruism places the survival of the group ahead of the survival of any individual, and this is what enables the repression and slaughter common to extremely altruistic societies. Stalin is generally regarded to have had killed more people than Hitler, and both did it in the name of the group.”

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-1205-Egoism_and_Capitalism_vs_Altruism_and_Communism.aspx


19 posted on 04/18/2010 1:40:04 AM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan eet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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2 Timothy 2:4 “No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer.”

Social justice is “getting involved in civilian affairs.” What does our Commander want?

1 Timothy 6:11-12 “...pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”

If we feed and clothe but do not speak of Jesus, we aren’t serving God, our true CINC. Feeding and clothing is great, but we need to focus on the much greater spiritual war. That includes myself, who often spends more time concerned about politics, i.e. civilian affairs, than spreading the Word—may God forgive me.


20 posted on 04/18/2010 2:11:26 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Governor Palin backs RINO extraordinaire Juan McPain (and that just sucks!))
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To: Brugmansian

No, He beleived in God.


21 posted on 04/18/2010 3:02:00 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (i)
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Jesus would not be considered political in any way by today’s standards, because He taught forgiveness and to “go your way and sin no more”.


23 posted on 04/18/2010 3:10:31 AM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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Goal #27 of the 47 goals that the Soviets wrote to take America over, with communism, from the inside:
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

24 posted on 04/18/2010 3:21:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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Jesus wasn’t a Marxist but Judas Iscariot was...”ought not that box of perfume had been sold and the money given to the poor” he said in criticism of a prostitute who poured perfume onto Jesus’ feet. Judas was a thief who liked to steal from the money box that he kept for the group; just like a typical Communist apparatchik and the criticism he used was typical of communist reasoning!


25 posted on 04/18/2010 4:18:55 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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Jesus was not a Marxist. Marx was born almost 2,000 years later.


32 posted on 04/18/2010 9:15:57 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (The Tree of Liberty ....)
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Jesus is a royalist.


35 posted on 04/18/2010 11:15:25 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Brugmansian

Nonsense - Was Marx a Christian?


36 posted on 04/18/2010 11:21:27 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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