Comments on: The Bible 2.0, now with more smiting! http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:42 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: SunnyNobility http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991218 SunnyNobility Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:05:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991218 <p>Thanks Attaturk, et al. To laugh or to cry, that is the question.</p> Thanks Attaturk, et al. To laugh or to cry, that is the question.

]]> By: Legion303 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991217 Legion303 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:41:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991217 <p>Try quoting Matthew 6:5-6:6 to street preachers sometime. They fucking HATE it.</p> Try quoting Matthew 6:5-6:6 to street preachers sometime. They fucking HATE it.

]]> By: KayInMaine http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991215 KayInMaine Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:40:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991215 <p>Jesus will become a hedgefund manager in the bible now! Just terrific! Spit.</p> Jesus will become a hedgefund manager in the bible now! Just terrific! Spit.

]]> By: formidable http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991213 formidable Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:46:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991213 <p>This is the C Street gang’s agenda . . .</p> <p>No more of that old New Testament love thy neighbor crap — it’s Old Testament eye for an eye beat the shit out of anyone who disagrees with you stuff.</p> <p>It’s the same sermon Deacon Tom Coburn preaches from the pulpit — biblical capitalism and fascist methods all rolled into one neat evangelical authoritarian theocracy package.</p> <p>Their next move will be a violent overthrow of the government. They’ve already vacated their C Street digs and have gone undercover.</p> This is the C Street gang’s agenda . . .

No more of that old New Testament love thy neighbor crap — it’s Old Testament eye for an eye beat the shit out of anyone who disagrees with you stuff.

It’s the same sermon Deacon Tom Coburn preaches from the pulpit — biblical capitalism and fascist methods all rolled into one neat evangelical authoritarian theocracy package.

Their next move will be a violent overthrow of the government. They’ve already vacated their C Street digs and have gone undercover.

]]> By: Peterr http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991212 Peterr Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:44:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991212 <p>Great post, Attaturk! I saw it this morning and have been laughing all day.</p> Great post, Attaturk! I saw it this morning and have been laughing all day.

]]> By: Becca http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991210 Becca Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:07:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991210 <p>And yet these are the same yahoos who, if asked whether the Bible is “the literal word of God” will answer in the emphatic affirmative. (But don’t confuse ‘em by bringing up all the different versions and translations… most of ‘em think the Bible is and always was in King James English, and that it’s also what Jesus spoke.)</p> <p>They’ve got willful ignorance, doublethink, and cognitive dissonance down to an absolute art.</p> And yet these are the same yahoos who, if asked whether the Bible is “the literal word of God” will answer in the emphatic affirmative. (But don’t confuse ‘em by bringing up all the different versions and translations… most of ‘em think the Bible is and always was in King James English, and that it’s also what Jesus spoke.)

They’ve got willful ignorance, doublethink, and cognitive dissonance down to an absolute art.

]]> By: robspierre http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991209 robspierre Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:02:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991209 <p>Biblical revisionism comes easily to the Conservative, because he has usually read very little of the book and that mostly in extracts and pamphlets. I am always amazed how quickly a supposedly God-fearing Christian Conservative can be routed and reduced to muttering by a few accurate quotations from memory. </p> <p>While waiting for a healthcare townhall, I was challenged by a small knot of these people who could not tell me what two principles contained the whole of the Jewish law, according to Jesus. When told that the second of these was “love your neighbor as yourself”, they said that you had to love your family first. When asked what Jesus had to say about family first, they didn’t know–and wouldn’t believe me when I told them. When they tried to say that the neighbors that they had to take care of were poor members of their own splinter congregation, I brought up the Good Samaritan. Never heard of him. </p> <p>At that point I gave up. It just wasn’t fun anymore. Their god is their belly and serving Mammon pays better.</p> Biblical revisionism comes easily to the Conservative, because he has usually read very little of the book and that mostly in extracts and pamphlets. I am always amazed how quickly a supposedly God-fearing Christian Conservative can be routed and reduced to muttering by a few accurate quotations from memory.

While waiting for a healthcare townhall, I was challenged by a small knot of these people who could not tell me what two principles contained the whole of the Jewish law, according to Jesus. When told that the second of these was “love your neighbor as yourself”, they said that you had to love your family first. When asked what Jesus had to say about family first, they didn’t know–and wouldn’t believe me when I told them. When they tried to say that the neighbors that they had to take care of were poor members of their own splinter congregation, I brought up the Good Samaritan. Never heard of him.

At that point I gave up. It just wasn’t fun anymore. Their god is their belly and serving Mammon pays better.

]]> By: hychka http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991207 hychka Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:38:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991207 <p>You can get on the wingnut page from here….</p> <p><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page</a></p> You can get on the wingnut page from here….

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

]]> By: Jo Fish http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991186 Jo Fish Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:59:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991186 <p>Attaturk,<br /> Don’t know if you went to the actual retard-o-pedia page with this dreck on it, but the project is being driven off it’s conservative cliff by the spawn of long time Uber Maitre d’Wingnut Phyllis Schlafly, Andy. Go figure. I guess that it’s not enough to be all about wrecking the Constitution, now that family is gunning for the Bible. </p> <p>What is it with wingnut genetics? That might be a Nobel-worthy study right there… the Goldbergs, Schlafly’s, Kristols…etc. Is there a chromosome deficiency that makes them somehow unable to see past their own self-interest?</p> Attaturk,
Don’t know if you went to the actual retard-o-pedia page with this dreck on it, but the project is being driven off it’s conservative cliff by the spawn of long time Uber Maitre d’Wingnut Phyllis Schlafly, Andy. Go figure. I guess that it’s not enough to be all about wrecking the Constitution, now that family is gunning for the Bible.

What is it with wingnut genetics? That might be a Nobel-worthy study right there… the Goldbergs, Schlafly’s, Kristols…etc. Is there a chromosome deficiency that makes them somehow unable to see past their own self-interest?

]]> By: Becca http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991176 Becca Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:46:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/06/the-bible-20-now-with-more-smiting/#comment-1991176 <p>“Accept the logic of Hell”? Yeah, because eternal, unimaginable torment without hope of redemption ever is completely just and proportional punishment for the witless mistakes of a brief and limited human life.</p> <p>And if you were virtuous but happened not to be converted to Christianity… you STILL go to Hell! Forever! That is so incredibly fair & equitable!</p> <p>(end disgusted snark…)</p> “Accept the logic of Hell”? Yeah, because eternal, unimaginable torment without hope of redemption ever is completely just and proportional punishment for the witless mistakes of a brief and limited human life.

And if you were virtuous but happened not to be converted to Christianity… you STILL go to Hell! Forever! That is so incredibly fair & equitable!

(end disgusted snark…)

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