Sharpton: Republicans Can't 'Use Christianity' Then Vote Against Welfare
Call yourself a Christian? Then you can't oppose whatever welfare programs the Democrats devise. So in effect argued Al Sharpton on his MSNBC show this evening.
In the course of criticizing House Republicans for having passed a bill reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto, Sharpton somehow equated Christianity with support for the liberal agenda. And although I'm the opposite of an expert on Christian theology, he also came up with a formulation on faith and works that might be surprising to some Protestants. Video after the jump.
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Watch Rev. Al suggest that being a good Christian requires supporting liberal welfare programs.
AL SHARPTON: Now a lot of people on the right are trying to put this around the blogosphere that the president doesn't mention God. And clearly they're trying to play now towards this real right-wing, religious-right kind of thing, which I think is unfortunate. And that's why I wanted to raise it. I'm glad you are, Reverend Cleaver, because clearly, you and I and many Christians have firm belief. But it's based on your work. You can't use God and Christianity, and then turn around and vote against trying to feed the hungry, care for the outcast, clothe the naked. Your action: faith without works is a dead thing. They need to read the Bible that they quote.
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Where in the Bible does Jesus say it is okay to steal...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:06pm.
...something from someone and give it to someone else?
Freely giving, as he encouraged, is entirely different, as there is no theft involved.
Some reverend you are, Al.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I'll double down on that...
Submitted by wizardjr on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:24pm.
Where in the US Constitution does it permit the armed taking of one person's earned wealth and giving it to another? I keep rereading the document and I STILL cannot find that in there.
wizardjr
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:27pm.
Funny, as I can't find it, either.
LOL - Maybe we are reading from a different Constitution than the libs are.
Actually, I think theirs is titled Manifesto.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Sharpton
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:13pm.
How long must this pity party go on.
easy answer:
Submitted by wizardjr on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:25pm.
as long as people are permitted to vote themselves someone else's money
Pick any prize from the top shelf.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:42am.
You have scored a bull's eye!
As long as we allow the Gov
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:06am.
To keep the perpetually poor, poor. The "War on Poverty" is not designed to win, just to create voting blocks. Not-so-Sharpton is as guilty of this as anyone.
it's NOT charity if...
Submitted by wizardjr on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:22pm.
it's done at the point of a gun. What this assclown and all the other libtards constantly do is conflate government forced contributions with the threat of prison if you don't comply, with voluntary charitable giving. "Charity" is a personal thing - a giving of my time and/or money to some person in need. When I do not even know who is being helped much less what kind of 'help' is being given, it is no longer 'charity'. duh.
Hey Al.
Submitted by syvyn11 on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:35pm.
Ever hear of "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."?
Hey Sharpie-poo: Christ said 'I am the bread of life', not OBAMA
Submitted by Slyrr on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:35pm.
To Sharpton, Jackson and other hucksters who practice priestcraft: You don't know jack about the Savior.
If you did, you might remember what happened the last time a gang of thankless free-loaders came stomping up to Jesus, demanding free food. This was shortly after one of the incidents in which he miraculously provided free food to a large group that had followed him out to a solitary place to hear him preach. Not wanting anyone to faint for lack of food on the way home, he multiplied the bread and fish and provided for the multitude.
They caught up to him later in another part of the country, Jesus said 'You seek me not becuase ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled. Labor not for that meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you.'
The thankless crowd still demanded a sign, rather than obeying his counsel to follow after him and obey his commandments. They said, 'Moses provided manna in the desert.' Jesus responded that the bread he gave was better. The crowd said to him, 'give us evermore this bread.', expecting Jesus to provide them with a lifetime supply of food. The response of Jesus bewildered and angered them.
'I am the bread of life.' he said. 'The that cometh to me shall hever hunger or thirst.' and went on to lecture the greedy Jews who only wanted free grub that eternal life is better that getting free stuff here on Earth, and that they had to obey his gospel in order to receive eternal life.
Sharpton and other evil workers of priestcraft would do well to remember this. They would also remember well to think on what the Jews did on hearing this. 'This is a hard saying.' they murmered. 'Who can hear it?' And after that, 'many of his disciples turned away and followed after him no more.'
How little things have changed. Wicked false priests like Sharpton claim to speak in behalf of Jesus, but they know nothing of his gospel. Christ was not about worldly success or wealth, or even free food, houses and cars provided by government. He was about establishing his kingdom on earth so mankind would have riches in the afterlife. 'He that hath eternal life is rich.' he says in modern scripture.
When grilled by the Jews about paying taxes to the Romans, Jesus stunned them with yet more doctrine they couldn't (or wouldn't) comprehend. 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Ceasar's.' he said. 'And render unto God the things that are God's.'
Slyrr,
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:54pm.
Apparently, another thing not-so-sharpton failed to mention was from Matt 10:10. Sharpton is NOT a workman and NOT worthy of his meat.
The day I see this fattened fool separate himself from his own ill-gotten substances and give them to the poor, I might, and I repeat, might, give him a little credence.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
it's safe to say
Submitted by misterbee241 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 10:52am.
Jesus never handed anybody a bag of money. but he did tell people to go and sin no more.
Sharpton's an idiot
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:38pm.
Now that I've gotten the obvious out of the way...
Al, stealing from me and giving to it someone else is not a work on my part, or the thief's, its a sin.
Commandment Number Eight
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:41pm.
Funny how a "Reverend" can miss such fundamentals to Christianity such as The Eighth Commandment.
I don't think The Eighth Commandment is followed by "unless the United States Congress does it".
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Aw, c'mon now
Submitted by ant on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:45pm.
Think of all the great Christian works our benevolent government has done in our name,.... money for terrorist organizations, guns for drug cartels, stealing the fruits of one's labor, sustaining drug addiction, teen pregnancy, and one-parent households, funds for abortions, advocating for deviant sexual practices even among the children, siding with the removal of any mention or reminder of God in the public square, . Why, Obama can count among his personal achievements the Christian tenets of blaming others, stoking division among groups, encouraging anger and revolt in the name of mammon, the occupation of his Country by foreign 'opportunists', lying, lawlessness, and the promotion of an atheistic, Socialist way of life, along with dependency, poverty, not to mention his aversion to a "painful era of self-reliance". Certainly a man, like Sharpton should recognize real Godliness when he sees it. By his own admission here, other's Christianity is nowhere near on a par with his own. I'm sure most of his wealth is being funneled to soup kitchens, nationwide, as we speak.
I'll get to the gov't....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:45am.
right after I'm finished writing the list of all of Rev. Race Baiter's Christian works...... Ok. I'm done.
How in the heck is this guy a reverend?
Submitted by Phryj1 on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:45pm.
Twisting Jesus's teachings to promote leftist politics? Isn't that blasphemy, taking the Lord's name in vain, and deceiving God's followers? Pretty sure there's a very special place in Hell awaiting Reverend Al.
And welfare has a poor track record when it comes to helping the poor. Not many people on welfare actually get out of poverty, they are merely sustained. The programs create dependency by design. Not to mention, but Dems don't exactly have pure, selfless motives either: welfare is a means of buying votes.
And cutting or reforming welfare isn't going to put an end to people taking care of the poor.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
It's called 'priestcraft'.
Submitted by Slyrr on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:00pm.
What Sharpton, Jackson, Farrahkan and everyone else like them are doing is called priestcraft. And yes, it's a sin, and yes, those who practice it will one day stand before God to answer for it.
'Priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world,' teaches the scriptures. 'That they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the Welfare of Zion…. But the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if they labor for money they shall perish.'
And who can deny that this is exactly what Sharpton is? Just try suggesting to him that he preach the word of God for free, and see how he reacts. He'll dive for his bullhorn and start screaming about how he needs his 'walkin' around money'! The thought of preaching without charging truckloads of cash for his appearances makes Sharpton run screaming in horror. He preaches for power and gain and praise of the world, and makes a mockery of that which is sacred for his own greed. That's how he wound up on MSNBC, which has a direct pipeline to our taxpayer dollars through Obama.
In the gospel, Peter warns that people like Sharpton, 'Who make merchandise of men's souls', will one day be judged by God. I don't doubt that he will be among those at the last day, who say, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' And the Lord may well say, 'Depart from me, ye that work iniquity - I never knew thee.'
So may we all if we don't obey the commandments of God.
Good point, hit-and-miss support for it.
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:03pm.
Your point regarding Sharpton is well-taken, but using non-Biblical references and misidentifying them as "scriptures" doesn't help.
Sharpton is making the opposite mistake, in cherry-picking those Bible references that he can twist to his advantage while ignoring the ones that indict him.
--Mike
Sharpton was "ordained" at age 10.
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:01pm.
Take that for what it's worth.
Well, my man the Rev. Billy
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:21pm.
Well, my man the Rev. Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Topp is also an ordained minister......and he's a conservative, on top of being a mean-ass guitar player/singer/songwrite/character..............as well as probably knowing more about American blues and where it came from than either Natso Sharpton, Jesse Jaaaaaaaaaack-suuuuuun, or Calypso Louie, Jeremian Wright, OR Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama (who isn't a damn 'black' guy anyway, as far as I'm concerned!!)..................so I think I'll just listen to him, if I need some 'religious' proclamations.
Billy wrote 'Jesus just left Chicago' ( NOT about Boy Barry!!!), 'Hot, Blue, and Righteous', 'Have You Heard', and a number of other religiously orientated rockin'-blues numbers............with a good melody and beat, and a positive message.
Keep Jesus Out of Your Socialism!
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:56pm.
Here is an article I saved some time ago, because it offers the perfect rebuttal to those who claim that Jesus wanted people to pay taxes to take care of the poor. I've shared the link with others; now I'll share it here.
Keep Jesus Out of Your Socialism
Oh, and BTW, Al, looking out from your glass house: you can't call yourself a Christian and then lie, slander, and bear false witness as a way of making a name for yourself.
Ordained in what church?
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:05pm.
How can anyone be "ordained" at 10? At 10 years of age, your young mind is still thinking primarily on a reflex arc basis, not on a logical or algorithmic basis. I would not be diagnosing developmental disabilities in patients if their minds were fully formed at 10 years of age.
It was the Pentecostal Church.
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:42pm.
Well, dr sam, that's why I said take it for what it's worth.
Some other preacher "ordained" him because he thought he had a "gift" for preaching.
It was a money making scheme
Submitted by celator on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:47pm.
It was a money making scheme because he apparently, at even four years old, could mesmerize a church audience into filling the collection plate. More or less a gimmick to make money. Not sure of his parents or someone else was behind it. Sharpton attended Brooklyn College for two years. He is basically uneducated in Theology, Philosophy or Scripture.
A church can ordain...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 8:39am.
A church can ordain anyone. Usually, they call a council of like minded churches [Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran], and put the candidate thhrough an examination process. They usually queation him on his theology, statement of faith, his family, his finances, and his "Calling". Absent, is a person's politics. Usually, this person has graduated from a reputable school of theology or has demonstrated a vast knowledge of the Scriptures!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
How did this guy. . .
Submitted by rick.bren on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:18pm.
. . . become a "Reverend"? From the Five and Dime School of Hucksterism? Luke 20:25 - And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which be Cæsar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s. Government (Caesar) takes our money and gives it to those who don't work. Many of us render to God to assist those who can't help themselves. . .
"Reverend"?
Submitted by gfrrman on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:31pm.
SHUT IT Al!!! My Grandfather was a Reverend(God bless his soul). He NEVER preached hate, lived a very modest life(one car and a ranch-style house), never smoked, drank or cussed(although he did say dad-gummit on the golf course once that I heard), married to same wife for 50+ years and raised four sons and 1 daughter. He talked the talk AND walked the walk. So I have to say AL-self-proclaimed-reverend Sharpton, I knew a reverend and YOU ARE NO REVEREND! Shut the HATE!!, hater. Same goes with your hater/liar/philanderer friend Jesse Jackson!!
Sitting on your arse waiting for a hand-out and NOT wanting to work even though able bodied, God would have a problem with that.
g
A commandment ?
Submitted by Talentonloan2 on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:51pm.
Hmmm. Let's see "brutha" Al...... Tawana Brawley.....bearing false witness....
Is this in your bible Al?
Submitted by awffp1890 on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:59pm.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NKJV)
Given Socialism's war against
Submitted by rbosque on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 12:29am.
Given Socialism's war against Christianity, why would any Christian vote for Democrats?
Doesn't this left-wing Muppet call himself "reverend"?
Yet when the right uses Jesus
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 1:30am.
Yet when the right uses Jesus and Christianity to oppose abortion, the left retorts with the usual "don't force your religion on me!!!!!"
How is this any different?
Hypocrites.
Will Sharpton Complain About Snowmen?
Submitted by Retired Geek on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:32am.
The next thing that Al Sharpton will complain about, is that there are a disproportionate number of 'Snowmen' who are White?
Rev. Tawana Sharpieton on Christianity
Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:21am.
Hmmm. Start with supporting a lie, then incite a homicidal riot. Yep, just like that 1st century itinerant preacher. Let's make little plastic bracelets with WWAD on them.
And another thing; With Occupy This and Occupy That so popular, what about "Occupy the West Bank" and "Occupy the Golan Heights"? That should be a big hit.
BTW, "Faith without [good] works is a dead thing," you say? Well, well. How very Catholic of you, Al.
"How very Catholic"?
Submitted by goodone91 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 8:22am.
Do not needlessly attack the Catholic Church by relating them to this liberal so-called "Christian".
Who's attacking Catholicism?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:45pm.
Many Protestant denominations teach that the saving grace of God is enough or one's profession of true belief is enough. That's the doctrine of salvation by faith alone. Some, in fact, teach that only a select few have already been foreordained by God to be saved, so that nothing one can do will alter the result—which is where "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" saying comes from. The orthodox Catholic doctrine is faith and good works. I was tweaking the inciteful reverend for espousing a notably Catholic position.
Besides, guilt by association is a human failing. God won't be mislead.
The difference is...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 8:30am.
Sharpton quotes out of context "Faith without works is dead". The whole text is found in James 2:14-26, NIV. A person of faith will be moved by the spirit to individually help someone in need as he sees fit. No where in the scriptures, either Old or New Testament does it say that the government shall take from them that have and give to them that have not. In fact, many times it refers to taking from them who have little and giving to them who have much already. It sounds bad until you read the whole context and realize the one who had little had such because of his refusal to used the talent that was given him.[Parable of the Talents, NIV Matt 25:14-34] "Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance.. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth".
Put that up your Liberal pipe and smoke. Revvvvvvvvvvrend Al. Better yet, read your Bible, you just might get an edumacation!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Sharpton is a RACIST
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 6:34am.
SHARPTON is NOT a Christian ... because STEALING is a sin -- whatever the end result and intention of that STEALING.
Sharpton IS a RACIST, and a THIEF.
And a BLASPHEMER for supposing that his mail-order title of 'reverend" simply qualifies him to inject his race-hating gospel into public discourse ... and call it "Christianity". Sharpton stir more racial hatred in this country than any other public figure I know.
YESHUA' s ideal of "feeding the poor" is all about CHARITY from the heart ... not government confiscation, redistribution, and race baiting. I also doubt that YESHUA looks kindly on able-bodied people CHOOSING the path of PARASITE rather than fomenting ENVY and COVETING - which is also SIN.
So sayeth the Rev Al
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 6:44am.
So Obama's desire to disallow deductions for gifts to charity is un-Christian?
actually
Submitted by theduck6 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 7:50am.
you can't be heavily involved in the Tawana Brawley incident as Jiffy-Pop hair was and ever, ever, EVER be taken seriously again...EVER. Unless you're a MSM blathering head, that is.
Jiffy-Pop hair!
Submitted by CO2Maker on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:47pm.
Good one! I always thought Rev. Tawana Sharpieton's first name was Marcel.
I wonder how much money this
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 7:57am.
I wonder how much money this fake reverend donates to charity. If he donates, at all.
Al's charity
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 7:59am.
Al gives all his money to charity - he is his own charity.
How does sleazy Al...
Submitted by notinstl on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 8:50am.
...reconcile his communist leanings and criminal background with Christianity?
Hey Stupid Al
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:05am.
What makes you think you're some spokesman for Christianity? Is that what Tawana said?
You can't use God and
Submitted by vrwc13 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:13am.
You can't use God and Christianity, and then turn around and vote against trying to feed the hungry, care for the outcast, clothe the naked. Your action: faith without works is a dead thing. They need to read the Bible that they quote. Sharpton
Jesus told the believers to feed, care, and clothe - not the government
Al needs to do a little reading himself...
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Secular humanist
Submitted by KornKing on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:07am.
1-Take money from those who produce
2-Spend the majority of it taking care of your "compassionate" bureaucrat buddies who then
3-see to it that about 30% of it goes to the "beneficiary"
4-Pat each other on the back over how compassionate they are all while
5-demonizing those the money was taken from and calling them selfish while
6-agitating the "beneficiaries" to declare that the "greedy"people who fund them are not compassionate and are, in fact greedy and selfish for not wishing to put more of their money down the rathole
Rev Al-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:18am.
feed them fish or teach them to fish-
$230+BILLION DONATED BY AMERICAN Christian's TO FAITH BASED CHARITIES
HOW MUCH DONATED BY liberals
Al Sharpton: America's First Illiterate News Anchor!
Submitted by GlenStanish on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:23pm.
The Daily Rash did such a good job of parodying Sharpton's idiocy that I am re-posting the link. http://www.thedailyrash.com/al-sharpton-americas-first-illiterate-news-a...
Am I about the last one?
Submitted by Buck_1 on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 1:41am.
God exspect those that can, help them self. Not only The big Al, but others need to understand that God is a fair and understanding God. Don't try to pull the wool over his eyes.I don't recall much compastion for plain old beggers. Jesue warns about the many coming in his name" preaching in his name" Telling you how to be saved and act.Many rich and well fead, while pointing fingers will face a life time of memory
in Hell
I pray thatit's not any of you