The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid
When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans’ newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, “biblically, we are supposed to work.”
Imagine being responsible for hurting so many people and turning around and think you’re a good Christian quoting Bible crap. I wish Jesus was real and coming soon, so he could slap you in the face. This is not what he meant (or the writers of what he said about loving each other, anyway).
If Jesus was real and did come back we’d probably never know because he would get deported and die in a Salvadorian torture prison.
Or put back on a cross. To paraphrase the comic about aliens asked about knowing Jesus, “Yes, he always comes back around to visit every year or so. We gave him donuts. What did you guys do?”
Jesus? Sounds Mexican, he wouldn’t last a day.
Soon we’ll all be Trumptians anyway once he invades the Vatican and elects himself Pope.
Imagine the irony if Bethlehem is his set spawning point and every time he tries to return he ends up getting murdered by Israel before he can form a coherent sentence.
No, JESUS. You know, white Jesus.
It’s weird how Christian dominionists never mention the Jubilee. You’re supposed to forgive all debts every seven (edit: 7 sets of 7, 49) years, and you can’t really own land - God does.
The only parts they read in Leviticus are the ones about killing gays though.
That verse you posted said 7x7 years, so every 49 years, with one year off after, so a 50 year cycle. Then I guess they “buy” land throughout the next 50 year cycle based on how many years remain. Ie, if it’s 25 years into the cycle, the price for a field might be half off. Not a terrible system really, for the age. At the end of the cycle, it all goes back to the “clan” to be resold again.
They certainly skipped 18? 19? where it directs people to treat foreigners in your land like the native born.
Puritanical work ethic bullshit coming from the mouth of someone with hands that have never known callouses.
Fuck his shitty religion; he can shove that fairy tale book up his ass. I don’t give a fuck what “biblically” we are supposed to do.
Don’t you just love this fucking bullshit dripping from the mouth of a parasite who’s never seen hard times?
I do actually agree with the core of this idea. Most people are not happy in a state of long term indolence. Most of us need ‘work’ to be happy. However, that ‘work’ might be carving sculpture, teaching children, breeding plants, or theoretical physics.
How many Albert Einsteins and George Washington Carvers died of blacklung from the mines this parasite inherited?
Then why doesn’t this guy get a real job?
You know, I don’t recall Medicaid being mentioned once in the bible.
I do seem to remember something about giving all of your possessions to the poor though. But maybe I am imagining that.
The socialism that Jesus taught would carry over to cover medical care that simply didn’t exist at the time. It’s funny how “socialism” is used by some as a bad thing…there is nothing wrong with society taking care of the citizens, it’s sort of the point of having it.
We are a post civil society. Everyone thought we were heading towards post capitalism but apparently there are some detours along the way.
Post civil police state
Any politician who publicly states that their religion should be the basis of any law should immediately be [redacted] multiple times in the face with a 12 gauge [redacted]
Yes, these politicians should be redacted.
Does this person think managing a household with the bare minimum cash flow isn’t work? Perhaps he can put himself on the streets with the clothing on his back, $20 and no access to his or family money, phones, electronics, for a month and survive, then come back and tell us how it’s not working.
yeah and “biblically” we’re supposed to be feeding, clothing, washing, and housing the homeless as Jesus commanded. We’re supposed to be taking care of the ill, as Jesus commanded. We’re supposed to “love thy neighbour” and treat everyone, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, equally as Jesus commanded.
But of course we’re not doing any of that and according to the Bible and Jesus that’s an instant ticket to “Hell”.
If Heaven exists it must be a fairly empty place.
Jesus famously didn’t give bread and fish unless you’d been working real hard that year.
Supply Side Jesus
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Wierd he paid someone handsomely. I figured he would say do it for the reviews or experience.
Who the fuck cares what the Bible says? I’m under no obligation to live my life guided by fairy tales someone else believes in. If you want to be dumb enough to fall for that, be my guest, but don’t use it to justify immoral behavior.
I’m under no obligation to live my life guided by fairy tales someone else believes in.
Yeah… about that…
Former billionaire
One down, 900 to go.
Cool, so he follows the bible and is saying people should be working just as much, or little, as him, right? RIGHT!? What a joke.
I remember hearing about journalists as a kid, the ones who would actually ask questions and investigate. Not just reguritate whatever word vomit these troglodytes spew.
if only these people didn’t pick and choose excerpts from an adult fiction novel in order to justify ruining other peoples’ lives.
Constitutionally, your Bible is irrelevant.
Probably the most relevant book ever written, certainly the most read.
Please finish this sentence: “Congress shall make no law…”
Stupid fairy tale is about as relevant as the Greek myths.
The problem is that the Bible was written by multiple authors over the course of hundreds of years. (Oldest bits are like 1000ish BCE, but those are scraps of poetry that were integrated in later, probably dating back to when Yahweh was a married storm god - early Jews were henotheistic)
It’s not a consistent voice, not all views in each book (or even within the same book) are consistent. The big misinterpretation is that it is ultimately not a unified text - it’s a collection of history, poetry, and philosophy written by people who often had political axes to grind (so much of OT is about Israel versus Judah, maintaining a unified identity during the Babylonian occupation, etc)
The way it has been interacted with and interpreted is critical to understanding most of human history.
Saying “lol Bible dumb” and stopping there is lazy 14 year old on r/atheism thinking that will cripple your understanding of about 2000 years of human history.
Cry harder about someone dismissing your shitty fairy tale used to oppress society. Fuck religion and what it has done to people
I’m not a Christian.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is fiction too, but it’s useful in understanding Mesopotamian society.
So fucking clueless
Well you’re gonna learn in the coming years just how relevant it is.
certainly the most
readmisinterpreted and used as a justification to do bad shitFtfy
Relevant to whom?
Now you’re just being stubborn.
Answer the question.
What was it again with rich people getting into heaven and the camel/rope and the needle?
A scripture so inconvenient that they had to spend a good chunk of the last 2,000 years contorting an explanation for why the obvious reading must be wrong.
