My two favorite quotes from this video:
“If you’re going to claim that you stand up for Biblical
principles, stand up for them. But that
means stand up for all of them. Don’t
just stand up for the ones that give you a person to hate or an easy victim to ‘other’. Stop wearing polyester and stop watching
football and go marry your dead brother’s wife.
I have no problem with people standing up for their religion. But I have a big problem with people standing
up for hate and trying to say it’s because of religion.”
“Mike Huckabee wants everybody to go to Chick-fil-A on
August 1st and spend some money there and show their support for
Chick-fil-A’s stance on marriage, or as I like to call it ‘hate’. I would like to suggest an alterative. There’s this Bible passage, Proverbs
25:21: ‘If your enemy is hungry, give
him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.’ So if you are not a fan of Chick-fil-A’s
stance on hate, on August 1st I suggest you go there and ask for a
large water. If they say you need to
order something, site Proverbs 25:21. I
mean technically if they’re operating on Biblical principles they should give
you an entire combo meal if your stomach growls, but let's keep it simple. Just ask for a large water and nothing
else. If they give it to you, then you
just got a few pennies of their profit and less money goes to their hate foundation. And if they don’t then I guess they’re not
even operating under their perverted version of Biblical.”
Amen!
Amen!
Does it say in the new testament that I should stop wearing polyester and stop watching football and go marry my dead husbands brother?
ReplyDeleteNo, but it does say to love our neighbors as ourselves and to not judge others. Peace and love to you, Shonda Borden. Thanks for the comment.
DeleteMore specifically, when Jesus was asked how to approach all of those rules from the Hebrew Scriptures ("the law and the prophets"; i.e. the Old Testament), he said with love:
ReplyDeleteWhen the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’
Matthew 22:34-40
http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=210849002
Thanks so much for your comment, Degolar! You quoted one of my favorites. To me it's so simple: Love God. Love people. I wrote about it more here too: http://thisambiguouslife.blogspot.com/2012/07/being-chicken-and-waffling-my-thoughts.html
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