Posted on 08/25/2003 1:24:15 AM PDT by goldstategop
Doug Powers
22 Things About The Bible That Drives The Left crazy
Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion," about the last 12 hours of Jesus' life is months away from release, and is already controversial. We've also got an Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice facing fines or jail time for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from the courthouse, and people continue to try to get the words "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. Just what is it about the Bible that drives left-wingers crazy?
When I say "left wingers," I'm speaking specifically about the far left. Those who spend inordinate amounts of time analyzing what you believe in, and not a single second on introspection. The people who try to eliminate any mention of God or Jesus in public places, but think it's perfectly fine to try and tell us that "Jesus was a liberal" via a sticker on the bumper their sloth-paced, battery-powered "savior of the ozone" vehicles – on public roads no less.
These are the kind of people who will burn thousands of gallons of jet fuel to fly to an environmental summit meeting, and "it takes a village" types who will gladly torch "the village" if they find out "the village" is using rabbits for medical research. The folks who decry violence in all of its forms, and yet are fully prepared to go on a hunger strike if the government doesn't give Ted Kaczynski his stuff back.
The way left. Terminal campus-dwelling know-betters with THC-clogged neurotransmitters who actually think Phil Donahue is kept off the air because of an organized conspiracy. Those leftists who sacrificed the better part of their lives just to get the FDA to have nutritional information put on the wrapper of a Snickers bar, and are positive that the real reason the dinosaurs became extinct was coconut oil. Those people.
A quick glance at the Bible, and it's not difficult to see why the tight sphincter of the left further asphyxiates that bug up their tuchis. The Bible is full of nightmares for leftist red-tape mongers and professional rule-imposers. Take these examples:
1. Moses parted the Red Sea without first performing an environmental impact study.
2. Jesus gave a Sermon on the Mount where he talked of giving to the poor, and spoke out against greed, and all without charging attendees $300 per ticket. (Barbra Streisand only).
3. The term "The Three Wise Men" is insensitive to the intellectually challenged. That should be changed to the "Trio of educationally advantaged amateur astronomers."
4. Instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh, they should have brought hummus, incense and a representative from Child Protective Services.
5. The Virgin Mary didn't first meet with consultants from Planned Parenthood.
6. Ten plagues and still not a single person thought of nationalizing health care?
7. Adam didn't ask Eve for verbal as well as written consent before touching her.
8. Of course Cain killed Abel. He was obviously suffering either from bipolar disorder, low blood sugar, emotional abuse as a child, or societal neglect.
9. "The trials of Job" were nothing. Try getting a job with nothing but a masters degree in Norwegian Art History – that's a test!
10. Too bad Greenpeace didn't have their own ark so they could have rammed Noah's Ark. You just know that, after the flood, Noah sold those animals to the circus.
11. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah could have easily been prevented if they would have passed hate-crime legislation sooner.
12. Jesus is one of the greatest teachers in history, but isn't a member of the National Education Association. In other words, God uses scab labor.
13. David slew Goliath for simply because he was unfortunate enough to have been stricken with gigantism.
14. "The Last Supper" didn't offer an option for people on gluten-free diets, and the fat content on the food was not labeled.
15. The part about Jonah and the whale becoming entangled in tuna nets is conveniently passed over in the Old Testament.
16. God should have spent the seventh day not resting, but rather going around putting warning stickers on all potentially dangerous, really pointy things.
17. What's the big deal about Nebuchadnezzar spending seven years ingesting grass? Heck, Woody Harrelson's done it longer than that.
18. The Bible mentions nothing about obtaining the necessary permits to build the Tower of Babel.
19. People lived to be hundreds of years old without prescription-drug coverage? I don't think so.
20. Jesus turned water into wine, which was not very mindful of those who happened to be teetering on the brink of plunging down the stairs of their 12-step program.
21.Of all the wealth possessed by King Solomon, the amount he donated to environmental causes: $0.
22.And the thing about the Bible that drives the left the most crazy? People can find salvation without their assistance.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08534a.htm
Year of Jubilee (Hebrew)
According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year is the year that follows immediately seven successive Sabbatic years (the Sabbatic year being the seventh year of a seven-year cycle). Accordingly, the Jubilee year takes place at the end of seven times seven years, i.e. at the end of every forty-nine years, or the fiftieth. Hence, the institution of the Jubilee-year system is but an extension or the working out of the Sabbatic-year legislation, viz. that as at the end of every six years there succeeds a Sabbatic year, so at the end of each seven Sabbatic years there succeeds a Jubilee year.
....(snip)...
The legislation concerning the year of Jubilee is found in Leviticus, xxv, 8-54, and xxvii, 16-24. It contains three main enactments:
* rest of the soil;
* reversion of landed property to its original owner, who had been driven by poverty to sell it; and
* the freeing or manumission of those Israelites who, through poverty or otherwise, had become the slaves of their brethren.
Now the sabbatical year says
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13289a.htm
Sabbatical Year (Shenath shabbathon, "Year of rest"; Septuagint eniautos anapauseos; Vulgate annus requietionis). The seventh year, devoted to cessation of agriculture, and holding in the period of seven years a place analogous to that of the Sabbath in the week; also called "Year of Remission". Three prescriptions were to be observed during the year (Exodus 23:10-11; Leviticus 25:1-7; Deuteronomy 15:1-11, 31:10-13):
*The land was to lie fallow and all agricultural labor was to be suspended....The prescribed rest was for the land, not for man. Hence work other than agricultural was not forbidden, nor even work in the fields which had no direct connection with raising crops, such as building walls of enclosure, digging wells, etc.
*No crops being reaped during the sabbatical year, the payment of debts would have been a great hardship, if not an impossibility, for many. Hence the creditor was commanded "to withhold his hand" and not to exact a debt from an Israelite, though he might demand it of strangers, who were not bound to abstain from agricultural pursuits (Deuteronomy 15:1-3, Hebrew text). The Talmudists and many after them understand the law to mean the remission of the debt; but modern commentators generally hold that it merely suspended the obligation to pay and deferred the creditor from extracting the debt during the year.
*During the sabbatical year the Law was to be read on the Feast of Tabernacles to all Israel -- men, women, and children -- as well as to the strangers within the gates, that they might know and fear the Lord, and fulfill all the words of the Law (Deuteronomy 31:10-13).
*The law concerning the release of Hebrew slaves in the seventh year (Exodus 21:2 sqq.; Deuteronomy 15:12 sqq.) is wrongly connected by some writers with the sabbatical year. That there was no special connection between the two is sufficiently shown by the requirement of six years of servitude, the beginning of which was not affixed to any particular year, and by the law prescribing the liberation of Hebrew slaves in the year of jubilee, which immediately followed the seventh sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:39 sqq.).
So that must be where I got the seven year cycle from - you served seven years for debts you could not pay, starting from the time of sentencing, not from the beginning of a sabbatical year cycle.
But the point mainly was that there was no prison system - people were either executed or forced into servitude to learn to WORK. Which isn't all that bad.
Saves a lot of cash rather than have people sit and rot in jail.
Preserves a little more of human dignity, IMO.
What's the matter? Prayed to God for something and he didn't come through?
Ain't that the truth!
Slavery isn't condoned by the Bible, it is merely acknowledged. And advocacy is a puny word. Homosexuality was noted to be perverse and a confusion of God's order to things. It is an abomination. But those with no respect for life or God would'nt much understand that.
It's been sold as a 'natural happenstance.' So natural is it that people must convince others to follow the lifestyle - thus the modern problem with kids being preyed upon by Homos. That coupled with the lies that had to be spread while the insidious perversion tried to gain ground and match the numbers lied about.
The term 'out of the closet' is telling. It isn't abuse or chastising that keeps one in the closet, it's shame. Shame is a matter of conscience - that part of a person that is their moral compass. It's also that part of a person that liberals, including gays and lesbians, are conned into suffocating. Once conscience is gone, they become emboldened in their error. But error nonetheless is what they espouse, just as your error in assuption and verbage..
Human conduct has to be judged from a moral standpoint. Absent that, there is no sure rule - none. It boils down to a peeing contest or a blame albert symposium: "Albert got by with it so I should too..." It is why Europe is such a mess. And it's why the liberals are. What's right and wrong to them is determined by the whims of the popular people around them. If they don't like you tomorrow, you're out - whether that means out of favor, ridiculed or stretched at the end of a good piece of hemp rope.
Certain things are a right in this country. You have the right to pursue happiness so long as that doesn't infringe on others or violate the norms that have been put into law. You have the right to be Stupid; but, I have the right not to put up with you. See how that works. You can do whatever you choose so long as you accept the responsibility for it. The problem is that no one wants to accept responsibility for anything they do. So it's mean that the poor serial killer should go to death row. And it's just awful that those poor kids have to suffer in court after killing their parents.. The mindset that irresponsibly comes to these conclusions is lazy and unburdened by good sense or any moral direction. If you want to defend that mindset, have at it. I'll excercise my right to ignore.
BTW, It used to be so obvious in this country that certain things were just morally wrong. Liberals have attacked the moral fabric of this country for decades with the tool of Politically correct greyness. They have confused and obfuscated and been willing dupes to comunism and socialists who willingly use them to undermine this country. I for one have had enough.
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