Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

the ppl who ignore the man are representatives of the temple faith. the implicit suggestion (stated elsewhere explicitly) is that they are more concerned w/ the strict law than w/ kindness/love. this is a fundamental dichotomy that the text is affirming here. the good samaritan is a member of a heretical sect that is good by virtue of his complete disassociation w/ contemporaneous jewry. that's why the third person is a samaritan and not the anticipated israelite (where at least you could read an affirmation of humble/outsiderness w/out the sting of absolute theological rejection). idk why his theological background is a problem - i'd trust his educational training on a topic like this more than any other institutional expertise (except maybe a strict bible crit pov which i think would agree w/ a number of his pts).

i do find it amusing how defensive christians get about this tho

It's not 'contemporaneous jewry'. It's upper caste jewry. And the good samaritan is good because he does good.

And I'd trust a religious historian to point out the original history of the bible text, more than a theologician. He seems to have no awareness of any kind of history.

I have a degree in history, btw. I think that has as much to do with my 'defensiveness' as my religion does.

okay lol

upper caste is a misnomer. they were the religious priests who conducted the temple service integral to jewish ritual life of which detailed references persist in the daily liturgy of jewish prayer in 2015.

I wish Jesus had known about dinosaurs tbh

he knew they were a HOAX

And final thing, but aren't priests and levites also israelites? It would be like a joke: 'a new yorker, a southerner, and an american walks into a bar'...

no, 3 different castes. israelite is understood to mean not a cohen or a levi

upper caste is a misnomer. they were the religious priests who conducted the temple service integral to jewish ritual life of which detailed references persist in the daily liturgy of jewish prayer in 2015.

― Mordy, 16. december 2015 00:09 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That is not opposites. Christian history is full of anti-clericalism as well, and not based on anti-religion, but religious and political elites has often been intertwined.

What Would Jesus Run As?

has anyone ever made a movie in which jesus came back and ran for president?

JESUS 2016

http://ratiochristi.org/media/events/photos/whyjesus.JPG

https://twitter.com/naijcom/status/675429038039633920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

jesus be like "wha?"

he looks confused about being on Twitter

"God is my hashtag? Why?"

They should get Andy Serkis to funny suit animate that caveman Jesus.

He looks a little like Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds facially.

they should use that computer to tell us the son of man's IQ

Caught some of Hannity out of Buffalo on the way home tonight, and he was complaining about Obama not bombing oil fields to choke off funding of Isis. "We need a wartime president." His wording reminded me of James Caan in The Godfather: "If I had a wartime consiglieri--a Sicilian--I wouldn't be in this shape. Pop had Genco, look what I got."

I hope someone in this debate gets panicky.

Besides the audience, you mean.

lol we DID bomb the oil fields just recently after holding off for a while

http://time.com/4145903/islamic-state-oil-syria/

although the fine print of that article does suggest some hesitancy & inertia

did rubio, cruz and jeb all say "everyone understands" why people reacted to trump the way they did?

watching this debate i feel like i'm hallucinating getting attacked by terrorists once a month over the past eight years

Are Americans really more afraid than at any time since 9/11?

I can't believe they're still running nine people out there. If school teams operated that way, we'd still be holding football tryouts in June.

Is the San Bernardino attack really being treated as a terrorist attack on some different level than a crazy guy shooting up a clinic in Colorado Springs?

I'd like the moderators to ask these guys how they would fundamentally distinguish the San Bernardino shooting from the Colorado Springs shooting. Does it just boil down to the religion of the shooter?

These guys are such dipshits all of them.

Which of these chumps keeps coughing off camera?

Is the San Bernardino attack really being treated as a terrorist attack on some different level than a crazy guy shooting up a clinic in Colorado Springs?

― Josh in Chicago

ask them about Dylann Roof

They should take all phones and screens away from these guys, lock them in a room, then just tell them they're the stars of a highly rated reality show. Then keep them in that room, forever, until they die. And then keep broadcasting it, so we can slowly watch them decompose.

Christie's tie is trying to escape.

I actually thought Christie said "And we stopped four dicks..." there--I thought his famous temper was taking hold.

Forget office, Jeb! has seriously aged over the course of his campaign.

Trump just claimed the Internet for America.

I think Trump wants to invade the internet.

I think a firewall that starts with a simple pop-up question--"Are you from Isis?"--would work just fine.

They should take all phones and screens away from these guys, lock them in a room, then just tell them they're the stars of a highly rated reality show. Then keep them in that room, forever, until they die. And then keep broadcasting it, so we can slowly watch them decompose.

― Josh in Chicago

ironically being locked in a room and decomposing is kind what it's like to work for the government!

which one of these people would be best at running the day to day functions of the government?

like the really boring shit

Well, if you conclude the day to day function of the government is indiscriminately killing and bombing, they'd probably all be OK at that.

Kill, kill, death, death.

who could take care of a plant hte best

http://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2015/06/dead-plant.jpg

"who can take care of a plant?"

jeb very much the "very serious person" in the room