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I had never paid the slightest attention to the Old Testament
prophets, figuring that they were the most fanatical of the
patriarchal, misogynistic authoritarians.
But, to my surprise, the ex-activist Minister in my UU Church
quoted Amos today.
DUers, the next time some fundie comes after you, try this
stuff out on him:
Amos 2:6-7
....These are the words of the Lord:
....For crime after crime of Israel
....I shall grant them no reprieve,
....because they sell honest folk for silver
....and the poor for a pair of sandals.
....They grind the heads of the helpless into the dust
....and push the humble out of their way.
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Amos 5: 9 -12
....These are the words of the Lord to the people of Israel:
....You turn justice to poison and thrust righteousness to the ground,
....you hate a man who brings the wrongdoer to court
....and abominate him who speaks nothing less than the truth:
....for all this, because you levy taxes on the poor and
....extort a tribute of grain from them,
....though you have built houses of hewn stone, you will not live in them.
....For I know how many are your crimes, how monstrous your sins:
....you bully the innocent, extort ransoms, and in court push the destitute out of the way.
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Amos 8: 4-7
....Listen to this, you that grind the poor and suppress
....the humble in the land while you say,
...."When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain?
....When will the sabbath be past so that we may expose our wheat for sale,
....giving short measure in the bushel and taking overweight in silver,
....tilting the scales fraudulently, and selling the refuse of the wheat;
....that we may buy the weak for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals?"
...The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I shall never
....forget any of those activities of theirs.
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This goes right up there with the rebuttal to homosexuality as a stoning offense.
"they sell honest folk for silver"
"in court push the destitute out of the way"
"grind the heads of the helpless into the dust and push the humble out of their way"
Somebody ought to use these as campaign slogans.
And this is just the OLD testament. How can any Christian stomach the thugs
in the GOP?
arendt
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