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Wallis: How Christian Is Tea Party Libertarianism?
The American: The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute ^
| Jay Richards
Posted on 06/05/2010 6:04:48 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist
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Jim Wallis is the activist preacher and editor of the leftwing Christian magazine Sojourners. (FYI for those who didn't know).
To: Christian_Capitalist
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:07:07 AM PDT
by
DarthVader
(That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
To: rabscuttle385; bamahead; Extremely Extreme Extremist; Dr. Eckleburg; Theophilus
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:07:51 AM PDT
by
Christian_Capitalist
(Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
To: DarthVader
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:08:01 AM PDT
by
Christian_Capitalist
(Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
To: Christian_Capitalist
Jim Wallis only cares about social justice.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:09:39 AM PDT
by
Grunthor
To: Grunthor
Jim Wallis only cares about social justice."Social Justice" = It's perfectly moral to steal Other People's Money, as long as you vote to do it!!
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:13:43 AM PDT
by
Christian_Capitalist
(Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
To: Christian_Capitalist
Jim Wallis is a marxist as surely as Obama.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:14:42 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Christian_Capitalist; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; ...
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:15:52 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Christian_Capitalist
Christ’s call to help our neighbors, to feed the poor, to aid the suffering, to care for widows and orphans, to love one another, etc. was NEVER addressed to governments, but rather to INDIVIDUALS.
Read his words in context.
Christianity is a call to personal faith and behavior.
Christ was pointedly apolitical. His disciples were from radically opposing political viewpoints — a tax collector for the occupying Romans, a radical Zealot, etc.
These continuing calls for Washington to fulfill our spiritual duties is absurd and sickening.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:16:02 AM PDT
by
Jedidah
To: Christian_Capitalist
Perhaps instead of starting with “how Christian” the Tea Party is we can start with how Christian the democrat platform is. Wallis wouldn’t know a Christian if he stepped on one.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:18:00 AM PDT
by
highlander_UW
(Education is too important to leave in the hands of the government.)
To: Christian_Capitalist
This entire discussion should not occur. The principles of the “tea party” are those of The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. The movement is no more openly Christian than those documents. Anyone who wants to go down this road will weaken the movement. I believe that is the agenda here.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:18:14 AM PDT
by
outofstyle
(Anti-socialist)
To: Christian_Capitalist
Alinsky Rule #4...
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:18:15 AM PDT
by
griswold3
(Barack Obama’s First Law of Leadership: “I just work here.”)
To: Christian_Capitalist
Excellent disassembly. Thanks for the ping!
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:18:15 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Christian_Capitalist
But is an undercurrent of white resentment part of the Tea Party ethos, and would there even be a Tea Party if the president of the United States weren’t the first black man to occupy that office? It’s time we had some honest answers to that question.Jim isn't interested in honest answers.
The only answers he's interested in are: Yes, and No.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:19:04 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(When buying and selling are legislated, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.)
To: Christian_Capitalist
government also plays a role in Gods plan and purposes.
true of the great imitator also:
government also plays a role in Satan’s plan and purposes.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:23:05 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Christian_Capitalist
Crap like this why I really ignore theologians, churches, etc that step outside their area of expertise.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:23:32 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Christian_Capitalist
As David Boaz explains it, libertarianism is committed to the non-aggression ethic: No one has the right to initiate aggression against the person or property of anyone else. One could raise criticisms against this idea, but its beyond me how Wallis could refer to this as a preference for the strong over the weak. Well, as liberals (and way too many Christians) see it, anything that is not actively weakening the self-motivated (and therefore, selfish) individual is an act of favoritism toward them.
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:24:55 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
To: Christian_Capitalist
Uh...Jim wallis?
Isnt he Obama’s “spiritual advisor”?
Gee...what would obama’s spiritual advisor be doing bearing false witness???
And as a chrisitan.....This is pure BS...
You ARE NOT your brothers keeper....free will is paramount and a GIFT from God you are supposed to use it once and a while.
I have no right to impose on my brother against his free will.
Christianity isnt collectivism or communism as the leftists would have you believe...
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:25:36 AM PDT
by
Crim
(The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
To: Jedidah
rite on
thank you - well said
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posted on
06/05/2010 6:28:01 AM PDT
by
aumrl
(let's keep it real Conservatives)
To: Christian_Capitalist
The Libertarian preference for the strong over the weak is decidedly un-Christian.
This is the weirdest of Walliss complaints. The whole drift of Libertarianism is to maximize the freedom and rights of individuals, to resist and prevent centralizations of power, in government especially, but also in big business, which tends to collude with the government and mobs, which can do violence to individuals and minorities of all sorts. As David Boaz explains it, libertarianism is committed to the non-aggression ethic: No one has the right to initiate aggression against the person or property of anyone else. One could raise criticisms against this idea, but its beyond me how Wallis could refer to this as a preference for the strong over the weak. Journalism is inherently critical. "If it bleeds, it leads." Journalism is propaganda power, and in a system of government which has democratic principles, propaganda power is power, period.
People who love power either become journalists or politicians whose principles are limited to going along and getting along with journalists.
Calling the politically weak "strong" is the easiest way to use your propaganda power to exploit them.
And that is the sum of what Wallis is doing.
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