Hypocrites! Or worse.
Apr. 15th, 2005 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
richardf8The right-wingers are supposed to be all for bringing our nation to heel under God's Law by banning Gay Marriage, keeping our teens ignorant of birth control, and otherwise micromanaging other people's lives because they are all such righteous people, right?
So, how can they pass this Bankruptcy bill in light of this:
Deuteronomy 15
1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
No, no, don't tell me!
It's because the only reason to ever invoke religion is to whip people up into voting for politicians whose primary goals are lining their pockets at the expense of those people's best interests. So now, when Joe Six-Pack, who works in a non-union factory and has no health-insurance gets put out of work when a faulty machine eats his hand, and racks up a large hospital bill to mend it, he has no hope of release.
If a politician is talking about God, the only reason he's doing it is to cloud Joe's judgement so they can hoover his paychecks and line the pockets of their contributors. And if the entire Whitehouse and both Chambers of congress were to be tiled floor-to-ceiling with Ten Commandments plaques, they would not cease to take the Lord's name in vain in this manner, perverting it for the sake of their ambition and their greed.
So, how can they pass this Bankruptcy bill in light of this:
Deuteronomy 15
1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
No, no, don't tell me!
It's because the only reason to ever invoke religion is to whip people up into voting for politicians whose primary goals are lining their pockets at the expense of those people's best interests. So now, when Joe Six-Pack, who works in a non-union factory and has no health-insurance gets put out of work when a faulty machine eats his hand, and racks up a large hospital bill to mend it, he has no hope of release.
If a politician is talking about God, the only reason he's doing it is to cloud Joe's judgement so they can hoover his paychecks and line the pockets of their contributors. And if the entire Whitehouse and both Chambers of congress were to be tiled floor-to-ceiling with Ten Commandments plaques, they would not cease to take the Lord's name in vain in this manner, perverting it for the sake of their ambition and their greed.
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Date: 2005-04-16 04:19 pm (UTC)