Showing posts with label biblical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biblical. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Money . . .

. . . can't buy intelligence . . .


(from http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-megadonor-compares-trump-to-biblical-figures/ar-AAhPvV6?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp)
" . . . A multimillionaire GOP donor is comparing Donald Trump to Biblical figures like King David in an effort to woo conservatives, according to a new report. . .  Mutual fund investor Foster Friess wrote a letter to supporters drawing parallels between Trump and heroes of Christianity, The Washington Examiner reported Thursday. . ."[All] throughout history, God has harnessed imperfect people to fulfill his perfect will," Friess said in his message before citing some examples. "King David sent Bathsheba's husband, Uriah, off to the front lines in hopes he would be killed so David could play cozy with the guy's wife.". . . Friess says in his letter he would advise "a principled evangelical Christian woman" to back Trump despite concerns about the businessman's moral fiber. It adds conservatives must rally around Trump following sacrifices the real estate tycoon has made for them. . ."





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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Precision . . .


. . . from a dying, biblical Jacob, who in his aged wisdom and natural confusion issues instructions to announce to his sons the occasion of delivering his last words . . .


(from Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann, translation by John E. Woods)
". . . "Assemble, you children of Jacob!  Come together in your hosts and gather around your father Israel, that he may tell you who you are and what shall befall you in days to come." . . . That was the call Jacob had issued from his tent to his sons, when at last he decided the hour had come for his deathbed speech. For he had his life in his hands and knew exactly what energies were left for him to expend in final words and then to die.  He sent out the call by way of his chief steward, Eliezer, that old young man; he recited it for him and had him repeat it several times so that Damasek (Eliezer) would know the words not just more or less, but by heart. "It's not 'come hither,' " he said, "but 'come together,' and not 'draw 'round' but 'gather round' Israel. Now repeat the whole thing once more and don't forget that double phrase, 'who you are and what shall befall you.'. . . Good, at last! I fear I have spent too much of my energy instructing you. Now make haste!" . . . And Damasek tucked his robe up under his belt and ran in all directions, so quickly that the earth seemed to leap up to greet him; he cupped his hands to his mouth and shouted: "Gather together, sons of Israel, and assemble your hosts, just as you are, that goods things may befall you from day to day.". . . "






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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Literally speaking. . .

. . . The execution squads would have to work overtime to keep up with the number of texts from the Bible that call for the death penalty. Violating the Sabbath (Exod. 35:2), cursing (Lev. 24:13-14) and blaspheming (Lev. 24:16) are among them. Such judgments would fall most heavily on athletic locker rooms used in preparation for Saturday or Sunday football games! But of course no one should be playing football anyway, for Leviticus also prohibits touching anything made of pigskin (Lev. 11:7-8)! Perhaps this great American fall sport should be played with rubber gloves! Even stubborn and rebellious children are at risk of capital punishment, according to the Bible. If children do not obey their parents, if they overseat or drink too much, they are to be stoned at the gates of the city (Deut. 21:18-21). That is a bit stricter than even right-wing biblical moralists and ideologues care to go. Yet if one wishes to search the scriptures sufficiently, this rather bizarre list of texts can be expanded almost endlessly. . . "

(from The Sins of the Scripture, by John Shelby Spong
©2005 John Shelby Spong)





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