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7.27.06 @ 12:01AM

HOLY POLITICS
Re: Mark Tooley's The Liberal Jesus:

Jesus (reputedly) healed the sick, raised the dead, etc. without any need of capital (nothing in The Gospels about Jesus writing grants directed at the Roman government or to charitable foundations of the time). All miracles performed today seem to depend on capital (formation required). Until another Jesus, who can do good out of thin air, appears in our midst, we're all better off letting the rich be rich so we can appropriate their capital (some, not all) to help with social needs, and so they can donate their capital to charities to help with social needs.
-- Ty Knoy
Ann Arbor, Michigan

I cannot remember Jesus being an advocate for organizing the government to provide charity. It was the government, encouraged by religious leaders, that organized His execution. Maybe the part of the Bible supporting the left was lost along with the Eleventh Commandment. Number eleven was discovered by an archeologist named Marx: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Mr. Tooley is very ambitious in his attempts at self-defense. The most tiring aspect of arguing with a liberal is first addressing the ideas that contain questionable or false assumptions. The gauntlet of false assumptions and loaded presumptions is intended to present the defender with hurdles on the uneven playing field that liberals always pretend to loath.

Well done, Mr. Tooley.
-- Danny L. Newton
Cookeville, Tennessee

Randy Balmer comes from the same small Connecticut town that I live in. Randy is seen as a far left "intellectual" who is way out of step with reality. He's run for a number of elective offices in town, the last being a state representative race, and he lost that race by a large margin. He spent most of that election throwing verbal and written rocks at John Frey, our incumbent state representative.

I'm sure his new book is in keeping with his leftist intellectual thoughts and will be purchased and read by the 1,500 Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and other left leaning thinkers.
-- Tom Corry

Jesus is liberal with love and kindness, but that is where it ends --

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. Hmm. Seems very conditional to me.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Hmm. Conditional again.

1 Cor 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Darn, conditions again!!!

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Hmm, we can understand it or Jesus is a liar.

Mat 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day (judgment), Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Hmm, looks like we must get it right also.
-- K. Wilson
Morgantown, West Virginia

Few things are as annoying to me and, in my opinion, as dangerous for our country as people taking the Bible out of context to support their Liberal views. Please keep publishing Mr. Tooley's efforts to fight this at its roots.
-- R. Trotter
Arlington, Virginia

NOT THE FEDS
Re: James L. Payne's Want to Control Spending?:

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