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Posted on 06/05/2010 6:04:48 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist
Jim Wallis is a heretic.
Ping-a-ling
Amen.
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!!
Jim Wallis is a marxist as surely as Obama.
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.
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.
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.”
Excellent disassembly. Thanks for the ping!
Jim isn't interested in honest answers.
The only answers he's interested in are: Yes, and No.
government also plays a role in God’s plan and purposes.
true of the great imitator also:
government also plays a role in Satan’s plan and purposes.
Crap like this why I really ignore theologians, churches, etc that step outside their area of expertise.
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.
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...
rite on
thank you - well said
This is the weirdest of Wallis’s 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 it’s beyond me how Wallis could refer to this as a preference for the strong over the weak.The Libertarian preference for the strong over the weak is decidedly un-Christian.
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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