Well, which is it?

[Scuba]

[lame54]

1. I think it's John AND Fugelsang

[BainsBane]

2. Nothing pisses off

the online right wingers more that citing biblical passages about caring for the poor.

[MynameisBlarney]

6. Which is why I do it as often as I possibly can

[BainsBane]

7. me too!

[MynameisBlarney]

8. haHA!!

We rock!

[rhett o rick]

15. There isnt much in the Bible that they do like, to be honest. nm

[timdog44]

21. Leviticus? nt

[marble falls]

16. Or the passages about visiting and encouraging prisoners. Or forgiving or killing. Actually, ....

there's very little about Christianity a lot of these "Christians" seem to like or embrace.

[SamReynolds]

17. It's sad.

Because so many self described 'Christians' are anything but. I know this from personal experience. My ex-husband was a 'devout Christian'. He was one person in public, and something else entirely at home.

[BainsBane]

20. I wonder if religions that place

a particularly high emphasis on piety create greater levels of disparity between one's public and private behavior.

Welcome to DU!

[marble falls]

23. Its the ones that claim three things:

1. Everybody is in the station of life that G*d is rewarding them with in proportion to their "worthiness".
2. I'm going the heaven and you're not.
3. By doing certain actions, they will bring about certain conditions that will bring about Christ's return, usually having something to do with Israel. And a lot of these folks may be functionally pro-Zionist they also sometimes seem anti-Semitic.

Lots of situational ethics, too.

I say that as an almost retired Lutheran. I have to say I heard a couple of surprising sermons from the Methodist pastor at my wife's church. He once told a story about professor at a university class disputing G*D, challenging G*d to knock him off his podium. A returned veteran walked up to the lecturn and back handed the teacher off the podium.

That really bothered me when the correct answer was, "G*d doesn't perform pallor tricks.."

[BainsBane]

25. The good thing about Catholicism

one of the few, is you don't hear that stuff at all. My mom was telling me of an archbishop would was ex-communicated when she was a girl (she's in her 70s) when he starting talking about how only Catholics would go to heaven.

So I don't think your criteria is universal. There are hypocritical religious people who don't adhere to those particular beliefs.

[marble falls]

28. And yet Catholic nuns and priests participated in the Rowandan genocide. And Lutherans were SS and..

and Gestapo. Good Baptists lynched. Its not the religion. That criteria works just fine here in central Texas, Tea Party central with Cruz (a source for shame for a lot of us) as our Senator, and a lot of folks with much "easy" money that they didn't earn. I suspect a lot of them feel so guilty about it that they have to think G*d gave it to them out of their worthiness because they didn't earn it though their parents or grand-parents may have. Check "Pastor" Hagee sometime.

[ReRe]

18. Beck calls caring for the poor...

"socialism."

[marble falls]

27. Well he would. I'd call his moral desolation mind wreaking.

[Initech]

19. The one thing I do remember from the few times I took Bible studying: Jesus hated hypocrites.

There's a passage where he says something along the lines of "My disciples, be not like the hypocrites who preach on street corners or in synagogues."
They should heed his warning.

[spanone]

3. k&r...

[rustydog]

4. I'm pretty sure when Jesus did the whole water into wine and fishes thing

and after raising Lazarus from the dead, he demanded a pee test.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. And you can bet that there was a substantial copay when he healed the sick.

[sheshe2]

9. K&R

[gateley]

10. K&R -- He's such a good guy.

[Dryvinwhileblind]

11. The widdle faeries sitting on their burdened shoulders...

...watching and judging every move. If those geniuses "believe" THAT tripe, there is absolutely NO chance of ever talking sense to these frogs. Only by action will We turn this around, and that better be RIGHT SOON, like yesterday.

[Scuba]

12. Dems need to take control of the moral high ground. And welcome to DU, Dryvinwhileblind!!

[Dryvinwhileblind]

14. Cheers

[Hamlette]

13. i love this

I'm typing a copy and putting it on my door at my very republican office.

[Nye Bevan]

22. Paul Ryan's Christ is a little more.... shall we say.... Old Testament.

Kind of like the "Sisters of Mercy" (sic) who used to beat me with a stick at Catholic school.

[Zax2me]

24. So, you want a govt based on Christian values?

[Kalidurga]

26. Brilliant...

It's funny too. Or rather ironic maybe. I would like a government that takes care of the sick and poor, yet I don't want one based on Xian values.