Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Today's Random Musing...
I really want a t-shirt displaying the 4th amendment to the US Constitution written in Arabic. The irony of getting harassed in the airport with that one would be simply sublime, assuming I wouldn't end up in prison.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Today's Random Musing...
I really want a t-shirt displaying the 4th amendment to the US Constitution written in Arabic. The irony of getting harassed in the airport with that one would be simply sublime, assuming I wouldn't end up in prison.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Sunday, August 27, 2006
I live in Oklahoma...
I know this because in no other place would the 2000 Orange Bowl be playing on a sunday afternoon.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
-The Oklahoma Hippy
I live in Oklahoma...
I know this because in no other place would the 2000 Orange Bowl be playing on a sunday afternoon.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
When did Capitalism become synonymous with Christianity?
This couldn't be more right...
Amen.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
"LIBERALS ARE ANTI-GOD"
Not true. The Bible doesn't support multi-national capitalist companies. Rather it says greed is a sin (1 Corinthians 6:10). The Bible doesn't support the notion that we all deserve to have big cars, big houses, and even bigger churches in which to worship. In fact, gluttony is a sin (Proverbs 28:7). The Bible doesn't even say we should oppose taxes. Christ told his followers to pay them (Mark 12:17).
And, in a part of the Bible that most donation-driven Fundamentalists seem to ignore, in the very first Christian church, conservative Capitalism was not the rule of the day. The first church was pure Communism. In Acts 2:44-45 we read "All who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need." Sounds a lot like Karl Marx's famous statement about Communism when he wrote that it would take "from each according to his ability to each according to his need." In the beginning, the Christian Church stood for equality and the redistribution of wealth, not for huge churches and even bigger so-called Christian broadcasting networks that spend millions of dollars in donated funds on five-star-hotel-quality buildings and even fancier satellite networks.
Amen.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
When did Capitalism become synonymous with Christianity?
This couldn't be more right...
Amen.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
"LIBERALS ARE ANTI-GOD"
Not true. The Bible doesn't support multi-national capitalist companies. Rather it says greed is a sin (1 Corinthians 6:10). The Bible doesn't support the notion that we all deserve to have big cars, big houses, and even bigger churches in which to worship. In fact, gluttony is a sin (Proverbs 28:7). The Bible doesn't even say we should oppose taxes. Christ told his followers to pay them (Mark 12:17).
And, in a part of the Bible that most donation-driven Fundamentalists seem to ignore, in the very first Christian church, conservative Capitalism was not the rule of the day. The first church was pure Communism. In Acts 2:44-45 we read "All who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need." Sounds a lot like Karl Marx's famous statement about Communism when he wrote that it would take "from each according to his ability to each according to his need." In the beginning, the Christian Church stood for equality and the redistribution of wealth, not for huge churches and even bigger so-called Christian broadcasting networks that spend millions of dollars in donated funds on five-star-hotel-quality buildings and even fancier satellite networks.
Amen.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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