Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > You're the one that's all goody-goody when it comes to helping out the > incompetent. > Seems you want it both ways. > > [Krimel] > When you say that the government is 'wasting' money on incompetent moochers > you reveal a total misunderstanding of reality. There are no such programs. > Not one. The incompetent moochers you seem to refer to are children, the > disabled, the elderly who are disadvantaged not through lack of character > but by circumstance. Children do not choose to be born to parents who > neglect or abandon them. Children do not choose to be born with Down's > syndrome or fetal alcohol syndrome and few families no matter how well > intentioned or well provisioned can afford to take care of profoundly > retarded babies or those with serious birth defects. > > Adults who are injured are stricken with a host of diseases and afflictions > that render them unemployable are not rendered so because they are moochers. > Wives who spend their lives nurturing their families are not moochers when > they or their husbands die or are disabled and can not longer pay their > bills. > > You remind me of Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats: > > "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he > will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered > before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd > separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and > the goats on his left. > > "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by > my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the > creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I > was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, 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 came to visit me.' > > "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and > feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a > stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we > see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' > > "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the > least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' > > "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, > into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was > hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing > to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes > and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look > after me.' > > "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a > stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' > > "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of > the least of these, you did not do for me.' > > "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal > life."
It's really hilarious that you, an avowed atheist, would turn to Jesus for moral guidance. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
