Imagine being responsible for hurting so many people and turning around and think you're a good Christian quoting Bible crap. I wish Jesus was real and coming soon, so he could slap you in the face. This is not what he meant (or the writers of what he said about loving each other, anyway).
Work Reform
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
If Jesus was real and did come back we'd probably never know because he would get deported and die in a Salvadorian torture prison.
Or put back on a cross. To paraphrase the comic about aliens asked about knowing Jesus, "Yes, he always comes back around to visit every year or so. We gave him donuts. What did you guys do?"
You know, I don't recall Medicaid being mentioned once in the bible.
I do seem to remember something about giving all of your possessions to the poor though. But maybe I am imagining that.
The socialism that Jesus taught would carry over to cover medical care that simply didn't exist at the time. It's funny how "socialism" is used by some as a bad thing...there is nothing wrong with society taking care of the citizens, it's sort of the point of having it.
It’s weird how Christian dominionists never mention the Jubilee. You’re supposed to forgive all debts every seven (edit: 7 sets of 7, 49) years, and you can’t really own land - God does.
The only parts they read in Leviticus are the ones about killing gays though.
They certainly skipped 18? 19? where it directs people to treat foreigners in your land like the native born.
Then why doesn't this guy get a real job?
He "make a hard d'cision"
Like CEOs
Jesus famously didn't give bread and fish unless you'd been working real hard that year.
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”
"luckily, I have 50, so this doesn't apply to me."
Constitutionally, your Bible is irrelevant.
Puritanical work ethic bullshit coming from the mouth of someone with hands that have never known callouses.
Fuck his shitty religion; he can shove that fairy tale book up his ass. I don't give a fuck what "biblically" we are supposed to do.
Don't you just love this fucking bullshit dripping from the mouth of a parasite who's never seen hard times?
I do actually agree with the core of this idea. Most people are not happy in a state of long term indolence. Most of us need 'work' to be happy. However, that 'work' might be carving sculpture, teaching children, breeding plants, or theoretical physics.
How many Albert Einsteins and George Washington Carvers died of blacklung from the mines this parasite inherited?
Yeah sure. It also says we are supposed to be stewards of the earth and take care of each other as if we are brothers and sisters. Yet they push legislation to destroy the earth under our "biblical" care and treat others like criminals and garbage. But please go on with your corperate bullshit. The Bible says not to take the lords name in vein. That doesn't mean shouting "god fucking damnit" when you stubborn your pinky toe. I means using your diety as the reason for entirely unbiblical bullshit. So, basically, go fuck yourself dude.
"Don’t rob the poor just because you can, or exploit the needy in court. For the LORD is their defender. He will ruin anyone who ruins them."
Proverbs 22:22-23
Who the fuck cares what the Bible says? I'm under no obligation to live my life guided by fairy tales someone else believes in. If you want to be dumb enough to fall for that, be my guest, but don't use it to justify immoral behavior.
Does this person think managing a household with the bare minimum cash flow isn't work? Perhaps he can put himself on the streets with the clothing on his back, $20 and no access to his or family money, phones, electronics, for a month and survive, then come back and tell us how it's not working.
James 5:1-6, NRSV
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure during the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
Any politician who publicly states that their religion should be the basis of any law should immediately be [redacted] multiple times in the face with a 12 gauge [redacted]
yeah and "biblically" we're supposed to be feeding, clothing, washing, and housing the homeless as Jesus commanded. We're supposed to be taking care of the ill, as Jesus commanded. We're supposed to "love thy neighbour" and treat everyone, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, equally as Jesus commanded.
But of course we're not doing any of that and according to the Bible and Jesus that's an instant ticket to "Hell".
If Heaven exists it must be a fairly empty place.
Former billionaire
One down, 900 to go.
Biblically, this man should be stoned to death for wearing cloth made of differing fibers.
Wait wait wait wait. You're telling me, a bunch of poor rural white people elected an out-of-touch billionaire who never worked a day in his life, and it's news that he doesn't give a flying rat's ass about those he represents?
Well fuck me sideways.
What was it again with rich people getting into heaven and the camel/rope and the needle?
A scripture so inconvenient that they had to spend a good chunk of the last 2,000 years contorting an explanation for why the obvious reading must be wrong.
Cool, so he follows the bible and is saying people should be working just as much, or little, as him, right? RIGHT!? What a joke.
I remember hearing about journalists as a kid, the ones who would actually ask questions and investigate. Not just reguritate whatever word vomit these troglodytes spew.
if only these people didn't pick and choose excerpts from an adult fiction novel in order to justify ruining other peoples' lives.
Maybe a religious text isn't a good basis for a government
I'm a Christian, and I have no clue what he is talking about.
Great, then he should have no problem voting to strip himself and his fellow congressmen of their 100% government funded healthcare.
I would point out how the old testament also talks of owning slaves but since the reds are mask off fascists, that is unironically their goal as well.
Biblically, slavery was acceptable and part of the gospel.
You say that as if that's not what the regressive actively want to return.
Legally, you're supposed to do your fucking job and get America such good healthcare it makes Europe blush. Not die on camera in the middle of a photoshoot before your mouth can fully form your war crimes.
Biblically, this man is going to hell.
Biblically you shouldnt hoard power and wealth and yet that taint of a human does.
Luke 12:27-28
27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not [a]arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
That bible?
Biblically, we are supposed to be relaxing and taking care of our home.
Work is a divine punishment. I am no Buddhist but this dude didn't read the Quran properly.
Jesus Christ, famously against feeding and healing the poor.
Obviously he misspoke. He meant to say “you”.