employability and sin
One of the biggest Christian charities in the world has just announced that due to its strict adherence to the Bible, there are a number of its beliefs that are non-negotiable for its employees. They have insisted that their hiring policy is not small-minded, bigoted and revealing of a cherry picking attitude towards the Bible that panders to irrational discriminative attitudes rampant in society at large.
The groups of people who are ineligible to be their employees include:
- Those leading sinful lives of gluttony i.e. anyone with a body mass over 25.
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. Philippians 3:18-19
Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. Proverbs 23:2
- Those leading sinful lives of fornication in the state of remarriage (if their first spouse is still alive).
But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. 1 Corinthians 7:10–11
I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery. Matthew 19:9
- Those born to parents out of wedlock, up to 10 generations back.
If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. Deuteronomy 23:2
- Any women who speak in church.
Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak but must be in submission, as the law says. 1 Corinthians 14:34
I hope you’ll join me in congratulating the charity for being so principled in its focus against sin, and for not giving in to political pressure from the vocal lefties to accept fat people, divorcees, bastards or dominant women as viable representatives for its vital work with the Christian faith.
But let’s not forget to love our brothers and sisters who indulge in the sins of over-eating, adultery, being born and speaking. As good Christians we should continue to help them and treat them with loving respect.
Read more about a similar situation here.
Listened to this tune several times today. Seems appropriate for this post.
Excerpts from Glacier
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You just want to live your life
The best way you know how
But they keep on telling you
That you are not allowed
They say you are sick
That you should hang your head in shame
They are pointing fingers
And want you to take the blame
There are days when people are
So nasty and convincing
They say things beyond belief
That sting and leave you wincing
And to boot they say their words
Come straight down from above
And they really seem to think
That what they’re doing counts as love
Don’t you pay them fuckers as they say no never mind
They don’t give two shits about you, it’s the blind leading the blind
What they want is commonly referred to as theocracy
And what that boils down to is referred as hypocrisy
~John Grant
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Definitely appropriate. I can find this bit the cruellest:
And they really seem to think
That what they’re doing counts as love
It really invites people in for an unexpected blow.
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Spot on.
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This is great! Immediately it’s terrible for those few who’re affected, but in the medium to long-term its brilliant! Let these groups display their bigoted, medieval attitudes. Give them a bullhorn to shout it from the rooftops. There is no surer way to guarantee the collapse of Yahwehism than to let the Yahewists show the world how they *want* to behave toward others.
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Just so I’m clear, is it obvious the post is satirical? I can’t tell and tend to make assumptions that everyone has read about what World Vision did, just because I saw a couple of posts about it. This is another mirror type post.
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Yes, that part is clear, and I did read the link. My comment was to World Vision, and Hobby Lobby, and everyone else who wants to march off down this unhealthy road. Let them! Turn the camera’s on them! Hand them a microphone! Let us all hear the lunacy!
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Haha, maybe they’re doing it purpose! A curiously odd lefty conspiracy to whip to the crazies up about embarrassing nonsense.
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Of course its deliberate. They must be released, as they are our strongest and sharpest frontline weapons against the nonsense. Well, that and mockery through parody “religions” like Pastafariaism and the Theory if Intelligent Falling, which should be taught in school science classes 🙂
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That sounds great! Must investigate …
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Awesomeness squared!
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Thank you! I think your comment qualifies you for entry to my “sycophant little cabal”, which apparently anyone who agrees with me has membership. Congratulations!
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I just saw Toms post over on the right-hand side. I paid him a visit and left him this:
“The First Amendment to the Constitution enshrines religious liberty as America’s foremost right. It allows each of us, from Catholics to Neo-Pagans, more than the freedom to worship our respective religions; it allows us to live out our faith in the public square.”
-Tom, hi. Am I to take this statement to mean you wholly and completely support Gary North and his Christian Dominion Theology brethren who want to re-instate religiously ordered stoning of children (and others) in American public squares?
From Gary North’s book, The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments
“When people [children] curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime. The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death.”
“Why stoning? There are many reasons. First, the implements of execution are available to everyone at virtually no cost. Second, no one blow can be traced to any person. In other words, no one citizen can regard himself as “the executioner,” the sole cause of another man’s death. Psychologically, this is important; it relieves potential guilt problems in the mind of a sensitive person. Those who abstain from the “dirty business” of enforcing God’s law have a tendency to elevate their behavior as being more moral than the executioner’s, where in point of fact such abstention is itself immoral. Executions are community projects–not with spectators who watch a professional executioner do `his’ duty, but rather with actual participants.”
“That modern Christians never consider the possibility of the re-introduction of stoning for capital crimes indicates how thoroughly humanistic concepts of punishment have influenced the thinking of Christians. If humanistic concepts of punishment have persuaded Christians that there was something sinister about the Old Testament’s specified mode of execution, then we should not be surprised to discover that humanistic concepts of justice, including economic justice, have also become influential in the thinking of Christians. Christians have voluntarily transferred their allegiance from the infallible Old Testament to contemporary God-hating and God-denying criminologists and economists.”
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I’ll have to pop over and see what he makes of that!
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Nothing yet. It’s still on moderation, which is why i posted it here, too. I fear he won’t allow it. I hope he does, though… I really want to hear his take on it 🙂
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I think he’ll let you through, he’s just trying to dig someone up to respond to it. That post is a classic, I have quote from it on hold for a future rant, but I hope to do more than my average research for it. He makes some insane claim about the Catholic Church being exactly the same now as it was 2000 years ago – there’s just so much potential! First line has to contain something about the state of the Catholic Church in 14AD …
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He does go off on a rather odd rant, which i just couldn’t ignore. Certain types of lunacy, like that, must be chased down and strangled.
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*big belly laugh* or *BBL* (because LOL is out of fashion)
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Is it? Thanks, you’ve saved me future embarrassment.
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Well, someone’s got to start the trends, right?
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NSL! 🙂
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Nasty, snide laugh?
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Not even close, you dinosaur 🙂
Nose
Snort
Laugh
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LOL
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Ditto.
Who determines what’s in and out of fashion? I’m a rebel when it comes to such nonsense. Pfft.
LOL
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Has “BS” gone out of fashion, to? Maybe I should simply say BULLSHIT. 😀
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*too
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We decide the fashion, it’s up to you. 😀
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NSSP 😀
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😮 No wait — that was suppose to be NSSS
My brain and fingers have communications issues.
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nose snort smile snigger?
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No Shit Sam Spade
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Well, I can’t say I don’t endorse the illegitimacy principle. I have two bastard brothers and I’m willing to cage fight before they can touch my money. And FYI, I have HUGE horsey toff teeth, and I WILL bite.
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Well, there you go. There’s a benefit to Christianity for every sinner. 🙂
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And while you’re here threatening to bite, I should let you know that the Bigot’s editor’s partner has been mouthing off about you again – ‘coward’ I believe was the word he used. I couldn’t hold myself back from commenting on her latest post, and they are now deleting my comments if they believe I’m making points I’ve already made on other posts. Poor people. Anyway, I give you this to have a read, but please don’t flatter them with a response because they are more than fishing for you to get involved again, you’re the kind of objector they enjoy:
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That was funny… Just to clarify, it wasn’t “innuendo”. It was an upfront accusation and I provided the IP number. The statistical probability that they’d share the same number by accident is… LOL. IP numbers are generated by one’s router, so the only explanation they could give is that one of them sits outside the other’s house and hacked onto the LAN network 😀
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Oh yes, and their provider is:
Organization: ServerBeach
ISP: Peer 1 Network
AS Number: AS13768 Peer 1 Network Inc.
How’s that for accuracy 🙂
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This makes for awesome reading!
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Well, I don’t see why not. If you can exclude some sinners, you apply an equality measure and exclude them all. It’s gets a bit tricky when everyone is supposed to be sinner … really cuts down on the potential workforce.
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It appears some sins weigh more on the christian weighing scale
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In Canada these exclusions would be grounds for a criminal investigation. Holy crap. Not even our bat shit conservative government would allow for such nonsense.
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Haha, I expect it would in most countries. Odd that discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation slips through the net in some of the United States.
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Thought this was worth posting.
http://awaypoint.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/beyond-homophobia-the-even-bigger-reason-to-avoid-world-vision/
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Thanks, very interesting, I don’t know much about World Vision at all, and it’s good to hear about more productive charities.
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Thanks for taking the time to read. I think it hits the nail on the head regarding their intent. Can you imagine a Christian organization actually giving for the sake of genuine charity towards their fellow human beings, anonymously, rather than for the sake of brainwashing these people. My cousin is a missionary. When they go to these poor places, they always bring Bibles, and they always tell them that it came from Jesus or God. We could begin to restore faith in humanity if people were told that Santa Claus was actually mommy and daddy (humans), rather than a fat, ‘jolly’ guy in the sky.
Sugar daddy is spot on.
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It’s a difficult one. I can see why from the Christian point of view they want to spread the ‘truth’ about everlasting life. It’s easy to condemn because we know it’s not true and we clearly see all that harm that comes with that … but at the same time, for those who believe, with their rose-tinted glasses, I can see how it’s the natural thing to do, and just as important as providing any other kind of material support in their eyes.
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“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” ~Mathew 6:1 – 4
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