Republican lawmaker: The Bible says the jobless should starve

[workinclasszero]

Republican lawmaker: The Bible says the jobless should starve
Posted By: Nathan Wellman March 31, 2017

A recently-elected Republican congressman just said that according to the Bible, unemployed people do not deserve to eat.

Rep. Jodey Arrington’s (R-Tex.) comments came during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on SNAP benefits, after one of the hearing’s expert witnesses quoted the book of Leviticus.

“In Leviticus, we are commanded to leave the corners of our fields and the gleanings of our harvest and vineyards for the poor and the stranger,” said Josh Protas, Vice President of Public Policy MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. “This commandment is a clear expression of our collective responsibility for each other.”

Arrington has repeatedly cited his faith as one of his main motivators, even going so far as to hold a prayer dedication service during his first week in office.

Maybe, eventually, one of these gatherings might teach him some new verses.

Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, for the Lord will take up their case and will exact life for life. — Proverbs 22:22-23

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. — 1 John 3:17


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[delisen]

1. Must be some secret devil worship bible he is reading. He needs one of those christian

interventions to save his soul.

[workinclasszero]

2. Republicans real god is Ayn Rand

That's why they hate the poor, the sick, the old and the outcast.

[delisen]

6. Republicans fantasize they are John Galt-a man who would stomp on babies to achieve

his destiny-not in anger or because he hated babies but because they were in the way of his individual objective

Ayn Rand wrote Romance Novels for teenage and young adult men-fascinating that so many of her fanboys are destroying our government.

[workinclasszero]

17. That's right

The republicans are merciless bastards for sure.

[dchill]

11. +1000

[NutmegYankee]

3. Probably a complete misunderstanding of 2 Thessalonians 3:10

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."

The back story - Paul is writing to the Thessalonians after hearing that some of them have decided to not plant crops because they believed that Jesus was returning in days and they didn't want to waste the effort. Paul was asked to get them to plant crops to avoid a starvation event.

[Docreed2003]

4. So whenever you want to drive a fundamentalist crazy...show then this quote.

These nutters love to bastardized the Bible without understanding it's meaning. They are hypocrites, the spelucre Jesus spoke of.

Anyway, here's my go to verse exposing their hypocrisy, especially in regards to issues of homosexuality:

"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."

Ezekiel 16:49

[Initech]

5. Is it wrong that part of me...

Really badly wants these scumbags to get horrible, incurable diseases? I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this way.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. LOL. I hear ya! - nt

[LOL Lib]

13. You are not the only one!

There are good christians and I don't wish them ill, but these assholes that use the Bible to justify bigotry, intolerance, and lack of compassion need to die a miserable death. The jesus I was taught about was exactly the opposite of these nutters.

[icymist]

7. Another Christian justification for sadomasochism, torture, and greed.

[Warpy]

8. The foul mouthed knittes are all over this guy

Deuteronomy 10:18-19 – “For the Lord your God…loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

Proverbs 14:31 - He that oppresses the poor blasphemes his maker, but he that is gracious to the poor honors God.

Psalm 82:3-4 - Defend the poor and the orphan; deal justly with the poor and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Isaiah 58 - Share your bread with the hungry, and take the wretched poor into your home. When you see the naked, clothe him, and do not ignore your own kin.

Deuteronomy 15:11 - For there will never cease to be needy ones in your land; therefore I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kin in your land.

Those are just a few of the verses and "fucking hypocritical shitstain" is the kindest thing he's been called.

The OT has so much about supporting the poor and absolutely nothing about kowtowing to the rich, save defining the proper conduct of a slave toward the master, who owes a hell of a lot more to a slave.

[warmfeet]

9. I don't care what the bible says.

I will help anyone I can, regardless of what some book says.

[stopbush]

12. The Buy-bull is make believe.

What's his point?

[meow2u3]

14. Republican lawmakers all deserve to starve

*

2 Thessalonians is one of many letters that St. Paul wrote to early members of the Christian church. The verse is referring to early Christians who were neglecting the Lord’s work because they believed the apocalypse was coming soon.

“The sin is sloth, indolence, inactivity,” said Al Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. “This is not an issue of inability. I don’t think it has been, in the history of the church.”

This verse should also apply to cold, heartless, fake Christians who use the Bible as a lame excuse to justify starving the unemployed, elderly, disabled, and children because the right-wing lawmakers will not work for the people of the United States.

*Notice that the Bible verse says "for even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: if a man will not work, he shall not eat." The verse did not say those who cannot work shall not eat!

[sinkingfeeling]

15. I guess I don't understand what any Bible verse has to do with a

program being funded by taxpayers. Why not quote Shakespeare instead?

[Ilsa]

16. They are so worried that the poor

will become dependant or not be grateful enough.

Nowhere in the Bible does Christ say to decrease charity if the giver deems the recipient insufficiently ungrateful.

[sarcasmo]

18. Republican Jesus using the "good book" to spin hate.

[sharedvalues]

19. Conservatives have rewritten the bible to serve GOP ends before:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/03/22/mischief-follows-in-partisan-bible-translations/

"The New American Standard Bible translated this passage that same way up until 1977. But something changed between 1977 and 1995 — something that had nothing to do with scholarship, language, accuracy, fidelity or readability.
American politics had changed between 1977 and 1995. It had polarized and radicalized millions of American Protestants, rallying them around a single issue and thus, as intended, rallying them behind a single political party.
In 1977, the sort of American Protestants who purchased most Bibles couldn’t be summed up in a single word. But by 1995, they could be: “abortion.”
And for anti-abortion American evangelicals, Exodus 21:12-27 was unacceptable. It suggested that striking and killing an unborn fetus was in a separate category from striking and killing a “person.” Strike and kill a free person, you get the death penalty. Strike and kill an unborn fetus, you get a fine.
And so in 1995, like those earlier translators who invented and inserted “Junias,” the translators of the NASB reshaped this passage. “She has a miscarriage, yet there is not further injury” would, in consideration of the changes in American politics since 1977, henceforth be transformed into “she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury.”
Politics — specifically, the political desire to control women — shaped the translation of that text. The translators changed the words of the Bible to make it seem like it supported their political agenda. They changed the words of the Bible so that others reading it would not be able to see that its actual words challenged and contradicted their political agenda."