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February 22, 2015
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Governor Scott Walker says he doesn't know if Barack Obama is a Christian. Which brings up the question: Is Scott Walker a Christian? Which of his policies and practices are Christian?
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Anonymous
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Being a follower of any patriarchal religion with one true god is just the excuse for the harm done to the world by patriarchy and its violence.
And just what do we know about this “Scott” guy? He sports a name that is certainly not a 'christian' name, but merely denotes someone who spoke a foreign language. A language of a country that has shown contempt to England and Ireland, both of whom are closely aligned with historic, political, and philosophical values cherished here in the United States of America. Also, recently, this country narrowly avoided a split with England. Are they Commies or something??? Has anybody looked into just where this guy is from. I'd like to see his birth-certificate, although I might be inclined to look at it with a jaundiced eye – and not just because Wisconsin has such a high volume of beer drinking.
And what about “Walker”. A “walker”... come on, just what is he hiding. Another “Walker”, from Illinois, became Governor of that state and later was convicted of bank fraud. OK, OK... Dan Walker in IL was a Democrat, but three other Illinois governors also got into trouble – Otto Kerner Jr., George Ryan, and Rod Blagojevich. And in Wisconsin, Scott Walker seems closely aligned with somebody named Paul Ryan... a coincidence? Or a Cabal? Although, I'm sure Scott Walker isn't in a cabal with somebody named Kerner, and odds are - not with a Blagojevich.
Seems to me that if Barack isn't 'christian', we should examine weird names on the 'other side of the isle' also.
This could be just another case of a “Scott calling the President Barack”.
Hey Scott Walker AND Obama - Why don’t you take a test to see if you or your america has been on the same side as god. It is easy to say you are godly, and god is on your side, but how’s your record?
How many times did you murder the innocent? – the indians who saved your lives and taught you to grow corn who you massacred – the striking mining families you burned alive in their holes in the ground homes – the vietnamese you slaughtered for their resources –
What is god seeing in his little black book?
How many faces of the poor did you grind today?
To be a Christian, it is not enough to say i am a christian and give your heart to jesus and sing songs in church regularly – you have to love – how well did you love? To love, you have to give when you see need when you have means – how many times did you give when you saw need when you had means?
Be perfect even as your Father is perfect – been perfect lately? Have you even tried to be perfect? Do you do anything that entitles you to the name Christian? How is your heart? God sees hearts not labels – hearts not churches – hearts not songs – seek and you shall find – how much seeking have you done? Have you sought anything lately? Have you really sought the truth about life? – or have you rested on the laurels of the Bible?
Have you said in your heart: i am christian because i go to church and therefore that makes me superior? Going to church doesn’t make you Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a car. Have you loved your enemies? Have you loved others as yourself? Have you acted toward others exactly as if they were you?
Proud of being a Christian nation, are you? Proud of being Christian? Think you are good because you are nominally christian? How many satanic people have been high up in the churches? How many monks have burned people alive?
What is your record? How many points can you give yourself as a Christian? By every test of what a Christian is, how well do you rank?
How vigilant have you been to ensure that your country acted in a Christian manner? – or did you just assume: it’s our country, so it must be good? Did you look at your country’s sins and fear the wrath of God, the condemnation of God?
‘test everything and hold on to what is good’ – did you obey this biblical injunction? – did you once in your life ever think of obeying this biblical injunction? Did you keep any eye on how much your country took and how much it gave, and whether it stole or plundered, and exhort it to return the plunder lest it burn in hell?
How is your country doing? – does it look as though it is heaven-blessed? – is there sweetness and light, or ugliness and bitterness? – is your country floating near heaven or is it burning in hell?
Did you grapple with the contradictions in the bible and strive to pierce them to understanding? – if god exists, and is right, and is love, then obedience to him is happiness, is peace and joy and safety and the love of other nations
Is justice a virtue? – is justice part of godliness? – did you establish what is justice in pay and strive to keep your country on that path of justice? – did you ever worry about the range of pay in your country and other countries? – did you worry about the amount your country stole by stealing people from Africa? – did you move towards full just compensation for the robbery? – did you work out how much slave labour gave to america and pay it back?
Did you suspect that there might be overpay when people got a million times the average hourly pay, although they were not, could not, have worked a million times harder per hour than the average – could not have worked even twice as hard per hour as the average?
Did you look at liberty, equality and fraternity on one side, and look at your country on the other, and see some difference, some distance?
Did you ponder why the founding fathers first thing passed laws to limit fortunes, to prevent concentration of wealth? – did you meditate the relation of concentration of wealth and injustice, and the relation of injustice and disobedience to god? did you pay the slightest attention to the causes of happiness and unhappiness, peace and violence, in states?
Did any of your presidents say: my fellow americans, it is very worrying, we have wealth and poverty, although people are working equally hard – we have people working harder and getting little and people working less hard and getting heaps – this is injustice – the purpose of govt is justice, because without justice there is no peace and happiness – we have to correct this – we are grinding the faces of the poor, we are becoming an unchristian nation – we will all go to hell if we continue injuring so many people
Did you obey the golden rule? – did you earnestly strive to do no injury? – did you see that injustice in pay was a great injury? – did you fear for your place in heaven if this injury to the underpaid continued?
No – you bathed in the glory of being christian, of being good, of being noble and great and wonderful, without ever testing yourself against christian standards – you put on a mask of being christian, by going to church and priding yourself on your greatness and goodness, and your soul and your country continued to sink into hell
... God is not proud of you – he leaves you to the fate you have chosen – you are a child that has gone ever downhill, from worse to worse, all the time raising your head higher and higher in pride and vanity
You cannot hear and you cannot see what you have done – ‘they dont know what they are doing’
God is love, so his commands make you happy – and even with that, you did not make a list of all the commands and check yourself weekly against them
Did you obey the command to lower the proud and raise the meek? – have you ever once thought of obeying that command?
Not once! Did your preachers ever preach any of these things? No, you have never heard such things before - not once!
6 comments:
Being a follower of any patriarchal religion with one true god is just the excuse for the harm done to the world by patriarchy and its violence.
And just what do we know about this “Scott” guy?
He sports a name that is certainly not a 'christian' name, but merely denotes someone who spoke a foreign language. A language of a country that has shown contempt to England and Ireland, both of whom are closely aligned with historic, political, and philosophical values cherished here in the United States of America. Also, recently, this country narrowly avoided a split with England. Are they Commies or something???
Has anybody looked into just where this guy is from. I'd like to see his birth-certificate, although I might be inclined to look at it with a jaundiced eye – and not just because Wisconsin has such a high volume of beer drinking.
And what about “Walker”. A “walker”... come on, just what is he hiding.
Another “Walker”, from Illinois, became Governor of that state and later was convicted of bank fraud. OK, OK... Dan Walker in IL was a Democrat, but three other Illinois governors also got into trouble – Otto Kerner Jr., George Ryan, and Rod Blagojevich. And in Wisconsin, Scott Walker seems closely aligned with somebody named Paul Ryan... a coincidence? Or a Cabal? Although, I'm sure Scott Walker isn't in a cabal with somebody named Kerner, and odds are - not with a Blagojevich.
Seems to me that if Barack isn't 'christian', we should examine weird names on the 'other side of the isle' also.
This could be just another case of a “Scott calling the President Barack”.
-DaTheorist
Hey Scott Walker AND Obama - Why don’t you take a test to see if you or your america has been on the same side as god. It is easy to say you are godly, and god is on your side, but how’s your record?
How many times did you murder the innocent? – the indians who saved your lives and taught you to grow corn who you massacred – the striking mining families you burned alive in their holes in the ground homes – the vietnamese you slaughtered for their resources –
What is god seeing in his little black book?
How many faces of the poor did you grind today?
To be a Christian, it is not enough to say i am a christian and give your heart to jesus and sing songs in church regularly – you have to love – how well did you love? To love, you have to give when you see need when you have means – how many times did you give when you saw need when you had means?
Be perfect even as your Father is perfect – been perfect lately? Have you even tried to be perfect? Do you do anything that entitles you to the name Christian? How is your heart? God sees hearts not labels – hearts not churches – hearts not songs – seek and you shall find – how much seeking have you done? Have you sought anything lately? Have you really sought the truth about life? – or have you rested on the laurels of the Bible?
Have you said in your heart: i am christian because i go to church and therefore that makes me superior? Going to church doesn’t make you Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a car. Have you loved your enemies? Have you loved others as yourself? Have you acted toward others exactly as if they were you?
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Proud of being a Christian nation, are you? Proud of being Christian? Think you are good because you are nominally christian? How many satanic people have been high up in the churches? How many monks have burned people alive?
What is your record? How many points can you give yourself as a Christian? By every test of what a Christian is, how well do you rank?
How vigilant have you been to ensure that your country acted in a Christian manner? – or did you just assume: it’s our country, so it must be good? Did you look at your country’s sins and fear the wrath of God, the condemnation of God?
‘test everything and hold on to what is good’ – did you obey this biblical injunction? – did you once in your life ever think of obeying this biblical injunction?
Did you keep any eye on how much your country took and how much it gave, and whether it stole or plundered, and exhort it to return the plunder lest it burn in hell?
How is your country doing? – does it look as though it is heaven-blessed? – is there sweetness and light, or ugliness and bitterness? – is your country floating near heaven or is it burning in hell?
Did you grapple with the contradictions in the bible and strive to pierce them to understanding? –
if god exists, and is right, and is love, then obedience to him is happiness, is peace and joy and safety and the love of other nations
Is justice a virtue? – is justice part of godliness? – did you establish what is justice in pay and strive to keep your country on that path of justice? – did you ever worry about the range of pay in your country and other countries? – did you worry about the amount your country stole by stealing people from Africa? – did you move towards full just compensation for the robbery? – did you work out how much slave labour gave to america and pay it back?
Did you suspect that there might be overpay when people got a million times the average hourly pay, although they were not, could not, have worked a million times harder per hour than the average – could not have worked even twice as hard per hour as the average?
Did you look at liberty, equality and fraternity on one side, and look at your country on the other, and see some difference, some distance?
Did you ponder why the founding fathers first thing passed laws to limit fortunes, to prevent concentration of wealth? – did you meditate the relation of concentration of wealth and injustice, and the relation of injustice and disobedience to god?
did you pay the slightest attention to the causes of happiness and unhappiness, peace and violence, in states?
Did any of your presidents say: my fellow americans, it is very worrying, we have wealth and poverty, although people are working equally hard – we have people working harder and getting little and people working less hard and getting heaps – this is injustice – the purpose of govt is justice, because without justice there is no peace and happiness – we have to correct this – we are grinding the faces of the poor, we are becoming an unchristian nation – we will all go to hell if we continue injuring so many people
Did you obey the golden rule? – did you earnestly strive to do no injury? – did you see that injustice in pay was a great injury? – did you fear for your place in heaven if this injury to the underpaid continued?
No – you bathed in the glory of being christian, of being good, of being noble and great and wonderful, without ever testing yourself against christian standards – you put on a mask of being christian, by going to church and priding yourself on your greatness and goodness, and your soul and your country continued to sink into hell
You completely failed at being christian
You are not christian
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God is not proud of you – he leaves you to the fate you have chosen – you are a child that has gone ever downhill, from worse to worse, all the time raising your head higher and higher in pride and vanity
You cannot hear and you cannot see what you have done – ‘they dont know what they are doing’
God is love, so his commands make you happy – and even with that, you did not make a list of all the commands and check yourself weekly against them
Did you obey the command to lower the proud and raise the meek? – have you ever once thought of obeying that command?
Not once!
Did your preachers ever preach any of these things?
No, you have never heard such things before - not once!
Verbose?
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