Submitted 1 month ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to workreform@lemmy.world
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/republican-senator-callously-says-biblically-35431207
The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid
When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans’ newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, “biblically, we are supposed to work.”
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.
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.
Supply Side Jesus
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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.
Probably the most relevant book ever written, certainly the most read.
Please finish this sentence: “Congress shall make no law…”
Stupid fairy tale is about as relevant as the Greek myths.
certainly the most
readmisinterpreted and used as a justification to do bad shit
Ftfy
You mean Harry Potter?
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.
Amen
“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
He needs to start doing some ruining then. He can start by having Venice sink into the sea during the Bezos wedding, wiping out many of the worst Sociopathic Oligarchs of the world.
I’m… Honestly unsure if you’re kidding or not
Depends on the translation ofc but yeah that’s really what it says
The Bible is big on charity, both OT and NT
Conservative evangelicals just choose to ignore that
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.
I’m under no obligation to live my life guided by fairy tales someone else believes in.
Yeah… about that…
Jesus also healed the sick.
Alas, working and receiving healthcare do not have to be inextricably linked. It’s nuts that our health insurance is tied to employment here in the US.
In fact, having a social safety net encourages entrepreneurship.
This guy sucks.
It’s nuts that our health insurance is tied to employment here in the US.
Even more nuts that they specifically want it to be that way to coerce people into working
Healthy enough to work or sick enough to die.
That’s what they want. Work or die. It’s that black and white for slave working class.
but social safety nets make exploitation and control harder to keep
Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
When he saw them, he said, “I’m sorry, your health insurance is not in network.” And as they went, they collapsed and died, because they were lazy freeloaders who didn’t work hard enough.
Entrepreneurship doesn’t pay for lobbyists to bribe politicians though
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]
think biblical, on a cross, crucified.
Yes, these politicians should be 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.
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.
Moth-eaten, you say?
We are everywhere
He looks dead and soulless behind that veneer smile.
Why aren’t these rich assholes able to buy cloths that fit?
I know it’s a side issue to their evil, but it doesn’t make any sense.
“I’m going to wear an expensive suit, but your not allowed to take my measurements”
He’s at an age where his body is changing rapidly in unexpected ways. It will happen to you, again.
Biblically, this man should be stoned to death for wearing cloth made of differing fibers.
Incorrect, there wasn’t a single stoning recorded for wearing mixed fibers, that’s just some hokum the ratheist community settled on for some reason
Please quote Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22:11 and tell me what you think wool and linen are.
Are you in the regular habit of just disappearing when you make such direct and bold statements then get called out on it for lying?
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.
Former billionaire
One down, 900 to go.
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.
Maybe a religious text isn’t the a good basis for a government
I guess you don’t know your history very well…
I’m not saying it’s not used as the basis for many governments, I’m saying it’s not a good one
Would you mind sharing with us how that history played out?
I’m a Christian, and I have no clue what he is talking about.
if only these people didn’t pick and choose excerpts from an adult fiction novel in order to justify ruining other peoples’ lives.
Great, then he should have no problem voting to strip himself and his fellow congressmen of their 100% government funded healthcare.
Cool, so he follows the bible and is saying people should be working just as much, or little, as him, right? RIGHT!?
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.
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.
Can you name 3 differences between chattel slavery and indentured servitude? I can name five but I don’t expect you to be as well researched.
I can name five
Go for it, we’re all really interested
This is a nit pick. The violence permits the selling and owning of people as property. Whatever you want to call it, that is immoral.
Can you tell me who wrote the Bible?
What is the relevance to what I said?
Biblically, slavery is canonical and literally a part of the gospel.
You say that as if that’s not what the regressive actively want to return.
Biblically, all sorts of fucked up stuff was common.
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, 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.
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?
They’re talking about the Bible where it says “Work shall set you free”.
That’s a different bible with a different title. It’s really close, so maybe that’s why they confuse it. But that testament they are quoting from is actually called “Mein Kampf”.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s weird how Christian dominionists never mention the Jubilee. You’re supposed to forgive all debts every seven years, and you can’t really own land - God does.
The only parts they read in Leviticus are the ones about killing gays though.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They certainly skipped 18? 19? where it directs people to treat foreigners in your land like the native born.
Kage520@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That verse you posted said 7x7 years, so every 49 years, with one year off after, so a 50 year cycle. Then I guess they “buy” land throughout the next 50 year cycle based on how many years remain. Ie, if it’s 25 years into the cycle, the price for a field might be half off. Not a terrible system really, for the age. At the end of the cycle, it all goes back to the “clan” to be resold again.