"But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
--Luke 19:8
It is time for some serious restitution from the rich in America to oppressed groups throughout the world and manipulated workers in America.
"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and he who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty." --Proverbs 22:16
God here speaks not in literal terms that eventually if we sit around long enough, this person will become poor in the tangible sense. It is a play upon words to undermine the conventional terms of what it means to be "wealthy" so that those that are wealthy and exploit the poor are actually morally bankrupt, and thus have come to poverty.
May 19, 2005
May 16, 2005
That't our home state :-( ...
I did not get to learn evolution in high school thanks to the Kansas BOE, and it did not help me in college. In grade school, at my Environmental Magnet school, we had very old fossils to prove how old life was and how Kansas used to be underwater. My point is that as a third graders, I had more intelligence than the Kansas school board. Unfortunately, most future students will not:
The way to get creationism into school science curricula used to be by trying to make creationism look like science by calling it "intelligent design". Now there is a second approach: redefine science:
The Kansas school board's hearings on evolution weren't limited to how the theory should be taught in public schools. The board is considering redefining science itself. Advocates of "intelligent design" are pushing the board to reject a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what's observed in the world.
Instead, they want to define it as "a systematic method of continuing investigation," without specifying what kind of answer is being sought. The definition would appear in the introduction to the state's science standards.
The proposed definition has outraged many scientists, who are frustrated that students could be discussing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena in their science classes.
The way to get creationism into school science curricula used to be by trying to make creationism look like science by calling it "intelligent design". Now there is a second approach: redefine science:
The Kansas school board's hearings on evolution weren't limited to how the theory should be taught in public schools. The board is considering redefining science itself. Advocates of "intelligent design" are pushing the board to reject a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what's observed in the world.
Instead, they want to define it as "a systematic method of continuing investigation," without specifying what kind of answer is being sought. The definition would appear in the introduction to the state's science standards.
The proposed definition has outraged many scientists, who are frustrated that students could be discussing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena in their science classes.
May 10, 2005
Three quotations to help you this week
One of the moderators of this blog, Ross, described the diminishing power of the U.S. Congres as such:
"They [Congress] basically only have the power to ask for the President to not donkey-punch them while he is ass-raping them"
"Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
now will they train for war anymore.
Every man will sit under his own fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid.
--Micah 4.3-4
"They [Congress] basically only have the power to ask for the President to not donkey-punch them while he is ass-raping them"
"Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
now will they train for war anymore.
Every man will sit under his own fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid.
--Micah 4.3-4
May 05, 2005
First they came for the liberal judges... and I didn't speak up...
First reactionary right-wing factions before they destroy democracies try to purge political opposition from government by changes the rules to help them. Hitler did everything legally, he just had to CHANGE THE RULES.
On Sunday morning, Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson told TV viewers nation-wide that the threat posed by liberal judges is "probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." When an incredulous George Stephanopoulos asked if Robertson really believed that these judges posed "the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany and Japan, more serious than the Civil War?," he responded, "George, I really believe that."
http://www.moveonpac.org/donate/robertson.html?id=5494-2967744-z9w7jbgRn8HQ8k4kpLBeCw&t=10
I pray we do all we can to keep these political demagogues, who hide behind a shallow heretical faith, out of power.
Shalom
On Sunday morning, Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson told TV viewers nation-wide that the threat posed by liberal judges is "probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." When an incredulous George Stephanopoulos asked if Robertson really believed that these judges posed "the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany and Japan, more serious than the Civil War?," he responded, "George, I really believe that."
http://www.moveonpac.org/donate/robertson.html?id=5494-2967744-z9w7jbgRn8HQ8k4kpLBeCw&t=10
I pray we do all we can to keep these political demagogues, who hide behind a shallow heretical faith, out of power.
Shalom
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