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In reply to the discussion: Questions about unemployment from a conservative. [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)29. The example from the bible that I like best...
Is when god led the Israelites out of Egypt. Manna from the heavens and birds that just dropped out of the sky.
11 The Lord said to Moses, 12 I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.
13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, What is it? For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer[a] for each person you have in your tent.
13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, What is it? For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer[a] for each person you have in your tent.
Does that sound like a god that wants to starve freeloaders?
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+16
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See? They're completely dependent on him to excuse their daily behavior.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#43
Did Jesus want to make people dependent? What other motivation could he have had?
Bandit
Dec 2013
#14
It's pointless because she's framing the ( very loaded ) questions through her own confirmation bias
Populist_Prole
Dec 2013
#15
Have you stopped beating your children yet? Loaded questions based on false assumptions.
uppityperson
Dec 2013
#19
Another thought: These aren't "questions" at all. It's more akin to a "push poll"
Populist_Prole
Dec 2013
#23
Those questions are only important to someone who has an agenda to sell for their own profit.
haele
Dec 2013
#32
She thinks Obama is fundamentally trying to change America and then calls *you* brainwashed?
pa28
Dec 2013
#37