Becky Benson, 56, traveled from Orlando, Fla., because, she said, “we believe in Jesus Christ, and he is our savior.” Jesus, she said, would not have agreed with what she called the redistribution of wealth in the form of the economic stimulus package, bank bailouts and welfare. “You cannot sit and expect someone to hand out to you,” she said. “You don’t spend your way out of debt.” (NYT)
"When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just" Jesus- Luke 14
When 70% of the world is still living with an ethnocentric** world view, we will continue to hear statements such as the Florida woman's perspective.
ReplyDelete**when only members of "your tribe..aka...those who are like you" are the ones who receive help.
I watched about 5 minutes of Beckapalooza until I had to turn it off and go to Leanne's wedding. I'm think I would have turned it off anyway. From the first moment when he walked in with his security detail to the strains of "Hoedown" by Copland I felt ill. I wonder if Glenn knew Copland was gay, a supporter of the Communist Party in the Presidential Election and a victim of the McCarthy red scare in the 1950's?
ReplyDeleteWhat really ticks me off about all this, is how Beck usurps the heritage of people he would be decrying if they were alive today such as MLK, Aaron Copland and oh, Jesus.