Happy 40th birthday!

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

I am a Theocrat.  Everything would be much better if Malcolm-Jamal Warner were in charge.

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[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you would be so horribly insensitive to half-blind people.

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

I like to think of him as half-sighted, myself.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

what? i've been half blind pletny of trimes meselfss

a few chots of wodka and a vhiskey or two and i'm damnn near 4/3trds blind

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

I believe the term is visually challenged.

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

FINALLY, a sentiment posted in here that I can get behind..!

[rogerdr.livejournal.com]

Ew, tmi.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I think I missed the joke on this one.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Plus we have a pastor advocating a Theocracy,
*without* actually doing so.

Not hard

[korean-guy-01.livejournal.com]

Obama is such a failure, that an actor/comedian could do a better job.

Re: Not hard

[rogerdr.livejournal.com]

I vote for The Ahnold.

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

There goes the neighborhood.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

lol forever

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

Weell, I'm a Christian Socialist, so I would not knock it entirely.

Even Communists have quoted Jesus and His apostles with approval, you know. god , in the OT and NT has quite a lot to say about the poor and how society should look after them.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, or even Karl Marx, I am not so sure of, but Jesus is definitely worth reading up on . As are the prophets in the OT if you want to hear some good political theory.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

The Torah said the people were supposed to look after the poor and the widow -- not the government.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

And what d'yer do when a majority of the people say "fuck the poor?" Or what d'yer do when a majority of the people are too poor to help the poor?

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

That's a very lovely thought, but the government does a better job.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

Nonsense.

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that's a pretty convincing argument, but one of the reasons governments are better is that they're less likely to discriminate than private charities. Try getting food and shelter as a transgendered homeless person sometime.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

It was as supported as your previous assertion and current assertions.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

How's that working out in Chile, BTW?

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

The Torah enshrines looking after the poor and the widow in Law.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

Deuteronomy 14 commands the people: not the government. In fact, the Levites were not paid, which is why the Torah commands the Levites be given a tithe.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

Hmm... commanding the people... would that be what we call "a law"?

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I disagree. We need only look at Iran to see what happens to a modern state that tries to create a purely theocratic state in the 21st Century. It works no better now than it has at any point since Emperor Theodosius.

[mintogrubb.livejournal.com]

Ah- but whose interpretation of God do we follow? The Muslim, or the Judeo- Christiam interpretation?

Go with the Muslims and you lose beer, wine and anything else alcoholic.
Go with Christianity and you get so much more that a decent drink :)

Even so, there are vast differences between the Christianity of fred Phelps and that of Minto Grubb, who gets his from the URC.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Warner for POTUS 2012!

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

I think we just formed a committee. :)

[rogerdr.livejournal.com]

Doogie Howser, Secretary of Health & Human Services.

Which deity would that be?

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

As a theocrat, do you support governance of the priesthood of Moses, the priesthood of Peter, or that of some other messy-antic figure?

Re: Which deity would that be?

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

The priesthood of Cosby, obvs.