A blogger who criticized Obama quoting Cain about being my brother's keeper,. because Cain was being sarcastic, misses the fundamental point, for a debating point.The story of Cain slaying Abel is in the very first book of the Bile, Genesis, which even
The fact is, that other than eating the forbidden fruit, the story of Cain and Abel is the story of the first crime: murder.
Cain's question may have been defiant: "Am I my brother's keeper?" but it was the first step in scripture towards what many regard as the universal law of morality: To treat other as we would be treated as ourselves, which is in turn corollary of a deeper command: to love our neighbor as ourselves.
In the New Testament, Mathews telling of the "parable" of the Last Judgment is a lecture on what loving your neighbor really means. We demonstrate our love by what we do to the neediest of our fellow human beings. Among other things: "I was sick and you visited me."
The inanity of some fundamentalists who insist that world is only 6,000 years old, and the excesses of religious authoritarians have turned many off to the message of the scriptures, but I can not understand how the self-styled Christians on the Right can so blithely ignore the commandment of love upon which "all the law and prophets" depend. Or as Rabbi Hillel said a generation earlier than Christ: All the rest is commentary.
To those who so mindlessly echo the right wing attack themes, and so easily turn their backs on the stricken among us, and who so openly flaunt their Christianity: be afraid not of Obama, but of the judgment of your God. Be very afraid.
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But 30, 40, 50 million dead - on par with the toll of WWII, and growing every day - is okay, in the name of a somewhat speculative (penumbric, if you like) right of privacy?
What had Jesus to say about suffering the little children? They're suffering all right, being burned with saline, having forceps jammed into the backs of their heads, being chopped to pieces and scraped out of wombs like the table scraps they are to the "inconvenienced" parents.
The life of the mother is one thing, concealing infidelity (or fitting into a prom dress, not liking the guy, trying to get ahead at the office) quite another. The nasty right wing should not be alone in fear and trembling!
It is rather interesting for me to read that article. Thank author for it. I like such themes and everything connected to this matter. I definitely want to read a bit more soon.
Don't stop posting such themes. I like to read stories like that. By the way add more pics :)
Nice piece, Dad. I published the link on our Dance New England website where they've talked about the health care issue from time to time. I'll forward the responses..
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