The truth about some things we hate

"If a man has two blank, and his neighbor has none, he should give the extra to his neighbor."
"Now Johnny, don't hog all the toys, share with the other kids."
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me water, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me."
"...a landowner who went out in the early morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them one denarius for the day...About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the market place doing nothing. He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard and I will pay you what ever is right.'...He went out again the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around...'You also go and work in my vineyard.'...The workers who were hired at the eleventh hour he also payed one denarius. So they all were payed the same."

Ok, so there is a quote that has been said is from the Bible, though not actually, but often used in society as good advice; a generic quote that any parent or school teacher tells the kids; and two quotes from the Bible, from Jesus.
What are those things but the idea behind communism and socialism.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we teach our children communism by telling them to share their toys. Jesus' parable of the vineyard owner, communism: everyone gets payed the same wages, enough to survive one day. And the separation of the sheep and the goats ("what you have done for the least of these, you have done to me") is encouraging socialism. Helping out those who don't have.

Capitalism? It's working to gain more and more. To better our monetary worth. It's greed. Those who have get more, those who don't have get walked over.
Sure, a CEO of some big company worked hard to get there, but then what? A teacher works hard to learn a lot, then has to deal with 15-30 or even 200 or more kids who are often disrespectful. Being a teacher is much harder than being a CEO. Yet teachers get $45,000/year if they are lucky, while a CEO can make $100,000/hour. That's too much.
With capitalism we end up with some people owning multiple huge houses, and others barely able to hold a box.

Course, the real problem with socialism and communism, and the way they have been practiced, is that its forced on people. Those ideals can't be a form of government, none of them work as a form of government. They only work as social ideals. The people must be socialist on our own.
We need to change our mind sets to be more willing to help others out, and be less greedy. People need to understand that we make too much money. Half of the world lives on less than $1/day, and many on less than $1/year. Even the poorest Americans are rich compared to most of the world. But we're too concerned about not being able to get that 42" flat screen TV.
Course, if houses didn't cost so much (thank you deregulation) we would all be living more comfortably and have more excess to help save those in Africa who don't even have clean water. (many water wells in those places are 10 feet from the hole int he ground toilet.....drink toilet water anyone?)

Christmas in October? And religious freedom.

I recently got a job working at Sears Portrait Studio. The studio is located in the back of the store, so I have to walk through a good chunk of Sears in order to get to work.
Why do I pass by Christmas stuff when we haven't even had Halloween? Christmas keeps coming earlier and earlier each year. I remember when I was a kid that we were shocked when we saw Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, now it's before Halloween!
When did Christmas become so commercial? Oh yeah, capitalism. "We can make money off this holiday!"
Christmas is no longer a religious holiday, I have mixed feelings on that, some good some bad. Yet in the last few years people have been objecting to any sort of celebration or display of Christmas stuff because of its religious origins. It's no longer religious, its commercial, quit complaining. (And for the Jehovah's Witnesses who don't celebrate any holidays, that's your choice, let the rest of us have our fun.)
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Our nation was founded on freedom of religion: freedom to practice or to not practice with out the fear of persecution. So anyone who has problems with those of us who practice get your heads out of your rears and let us practice, if you don't like it, ignore it. And to those of us who do practice, get your head out of your rears and let them be, it's their choice to not believe, let them be. You can't convert someone to your beliefs, even if it looks like you do it's not you, it's your god that allows the person you're trying to convert to see the "light."

Let's just all get along, as our founding fathers intended us to. And quit celebrating Christmas before Thanksgiving, let alone Halloween!

Divided We Fall

I remember it being said many times, “Divided we fall.” If we want to make the world a better place we have to stick together. Our President promised to reach across party lines to bring this country together, get it out of the recession, and fix health care. In order for President Obama to reach across party lines, the “other side” must be willing to reach out to receive that hand, and work together. Yet a few months ago, all we heard on the news is how “Boss” Limbaugh wants the President of the United States of America to fail. Now maybe he’s not saying him personally, but his policies. But I have to ask if he was just sour about losing the election? Are most of the Republicans in our country sour over it? And if so, that’s really pathetic. I know republicans have always been the “patriotic party”, tell me, where is the patriotism in wishing failure in the President’s policies?
There is no way that we will be able to fix these problems if the Republican leaders are refusing to work with the Democrats.
We are the UNITED States of America, let’s start acting united. Both Democrats and Republican, put aside your differences, and hope for success no matter who the leader is. That’s the only way we will have survive this.

God does NOT hate fags

Too many people, who claim to be Christians, or a follower of any other organized religion, have misconstrued the ideals of their gods.

I’ve been a Christian my whole life, and never do I remember reading anything that says “God hates (fill in the blank with a type of people).” I do remember something to the effect of: hate the sin, but not the sinner (though not actually stated in those words), and that we are not supposed to judge, that is up to god to do. The God of the Bible, and I’m sure the gods of the other religions, are not about hatred, they are about love. God doesn’t hate fags (forgive the term).

Jesus preached love: love for everyone, including those you don’t agree with. He talked about being kind, and helping out those less fortunate than you. If a man has two blankets, and his neighbor has none, he should give the extra to his neighbor; sounds almost like socialism. Furthermore, read Matthew 20:1-15; to me, that sounds like communism. Jesus believed in socialism and communism (granted not as they have been practiced, but the way they were meant to be). Jesus was NOT a capitalist, those were the Pharisees. Pharisees were prideful, arrogant, and did not trust those who were not like them.

I also don’t think Jesus would own a gun.