November 3, 2012 - 9:08 pm
One Obama and the rest of his ilk would do well to remember:
“You (cannot) enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!”
– Robert A. Heinlein
One Obama and the rest of his ilk would do well to remember:
“You (cannot) enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!”
– Robert A. Heinlein
Sadly, Progressives (as have communists and fascists, historically) would stoop to either as interchangeable, if they could. =’[.]‘=
– sadly too many choose slavery.
“…the very most you can do is kill him!”
He obliged by letting four free men, including an ambassador, killed on our soil (embassies and consulates).
Realizing in my 38th year I’d never read the Bible except in Church services and Sunday school, I bought my own copy and started working my way through. Three times through now – and I’m not claiming I examine every chapter, much less every line and verse. Some parts make no sense to me at all, others resonate like the sounding of a great bell.
One item that links to today’s quote: in the generations following Moses, provisions in custom and law allowed that a Jew falling into debt could sell himself into slavery to retire the debt. This has to be a pretty miserable prospect. But at least the Hebrew’s law seemed mercifully to limit the period of slavery to seven years, after which – if I understand correctly – the slave owner was obliged to emancipate the sufferer from servitude. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can correct me or offer further detail…
Similarly, while much of Mosaic law seems obsessed with incomprehensible minutia, a pattern of underlying practicality emerges: the seven-year period applied to a number of mundane matters, such as the requirement to let agricultural fields lie fallow (again, iirc) for one year out of seven, or leaving part of any field unharvested, to be gleaned by the poor…
Well, I am a well-documented ignoramus, but there seem to have been over six hundred “Mitzvot” or requirements for the faithful, bunches of them re-phrasings of others, but most of them establishing moderation, patience, indulgence, absolution, and generosity to other jews and foreigners as well.
As a Christian, I am acutely aware of how infrequently I manage to come anywhere close to the high standard set by the perfect soul, and it would not surprise me if the laws of Moses were likewise imperfectly fulfilled.
But they were THERE! They were THERE… to guide the whole nation of Jews, and establish a radically unusual relationship among men, almost unique in the ancient world. The idea that we owed it to our CREATOR to treat his other children decently EVEN WHEN NO ONE WAS FORCING US TO, still stands as a sort of minority concept.
Obama and his Marxist atheist Communist Progressive posse have been steeped for generations in a philosophy which reviles that tradition. For them the STATE is everything. Individuals (excepting of course THEMSELVES) exist only to serve the state, and their welfare, convenience, and health, matter NOT except insofar as these help them continue to fulfill the demands placed upon them by their glorious leaders.
They can kiss my @$$. Especially Ms. Jarrett.
Ooops.
Guess that’s not turning the other cheek…
At least not as the original quote intended.
>;-p
Lol…if it makes you feel better, as I understand it, that passage can be understood as turrning the other cheek when you are in the process of trying to convert someone to Christianity and they are being abusive towards you in the interim. Outside of that specific circumstance, you are perfectly free to defend yourself.
Absolutely no reason to turn the other cheek towards those who would enslave you.