Would it help the left to start quoting the book of Amos ?

[whirlingmerc]

https://www.slideshare.net/MichaelScaman/amos-a-lion-has-roared-88212033[URL="https://www.slideshare.net/MichaelScaman/amos-a-lion-has-roared-88212033"]Amos a lion has roared[/URL]Amos has lots of issues of justice, human trafficking, opulence of soem in the face of poverty, the rich and powerful stepping on the poor..... winter houses, summer houses, but step all over the poor... and pointing forward to hope

"Let Justice roll like water and righteousness like a mighty stream" Martin Luther King quoting the book of Amos

And Obama had his famous book on 'the audacity of hope' quoting a famous church sermon of Reverend Wright

Amos a lion has roared

 

[Rival]

Probably not.

It's pretty much a Right-Wing copyrighted thing, scripture quoting.

 

[whirlingmerc]

Probably not.

It's pretty much a Right-Wing copyrighted thing, scripture quoting.

Martin Luther King did, so why not?

 

[Rival]

Martin Luther King did, so why not?

Because quoting scripture isn't really an argument for most people.

 

[tytlyf]

Martin Luther King did, so why not?

1/3 of the nation aren't christian. Why would they care about scripture?

 

[whirlingmerc]

1/3 of the nation aren't christian. Why would they care about scripture?

Leaving a sizable minority who are?

Dont practically all people on the left running for office claim to be Christian?

 

[metis]

Put in context, the entire Bible is pretty much a "leftist" thingy with it's emphasis on love, compassion, and justice for all, whereas the "rightist" thingy tends to emphasize materialism, wealth, power, self-centeredness, and being able to grope women.

 

[sun rise]

Leaving a sizable minority who are?

Dont practically all people on the left running for office claim to be Christian?

People on the right running for office also claim to be Christian.

Actions shout from mountaintops while words are worth what we pay to hear them.

 

[tytlyf]

Leaving a sizable minority who are?

Dont practically all people on the left running for office claim to be Christian?

Yes, most people on the left claim to be christian because the majority of people in the democratic party are christian. They just don't legislate biblical law like republicans do. A lot of people vote for republicans with the hopes of introducing biblical law.

Democrats understand our nation is a secular country governed by a secular constitution. Trying to push religious law and wearing it on your sleeve is a no-no and un-American.

 

[columbus]

practically all people on the left running for office claim to be Christian?

Practically all people who run for office, in the USA, claim to be Christian.
The difference is that the left tends to walk the walk, whereas the right tends to talk the talk.
Tom

 

[tytlyf]

And Obama had his famous book on 'the audacity of hope' quoting a famous church sermon of Reverend Wright

And? Obama didn't pursue religious law. But republicans do. Do you see the difference yet?

 

[columbus]

And? Obama didn't pursue religious law. But republicans do. Do you see the difference yet?

Well, really Obama did pursue religious law.
"Care for the sick" rather resembles O'Romney Care more than TrumpCare does.
"What you do for the Least, you do for Me", sounds a lot more like Obama than Trump.

Obama just didn't call it religious law. Real Christians know it when they see it.
Tom

 

[whirlingmerc]

People on the right running for office also claim to be Christian.

Actions shout from mountaintops while words are worth what we pay to hear them.

Jesus took heat form both the right wing Pharisee and left ing Sadducee.

I believe Hillary initially claimed to be a moral conservative
then again.... politicians will often say what they think people want to hear

 

[Kuzcotopia]

Jesus took heat form both the right wing Pharisee and left ing Sadducee.

I believe Hillary initially claimed to be a moral conservative
then again.... politicians will often say what they think people want to hear

Hillary ran on the Democratic platform. It never made her a liberal.

As for your thread topic, I believe conservatives might have more lessons to learn from the Bible than liberals do regarding not our collection be responsibility to the impoverished . . . Unless your understanding of what a liberal is differs from mine.

 

[whirlingmerc]

Well, really Obama did pursue religious law.
"Care for the sick" rather resembles O'Romney Care more than TrumpCare does.
"What you do for the Least, you do for Me", sounds a lot more like Obama than Trump.

Obama just didn't call it religious law. Real Christians know it when they see it.
Tom

MLK said 'was not Amos an activist' in the letter to a Birmingham jail.
What made the difference between then and now?