It was only a matter of time, of course. But someone finally couldn’t resist the urge any longer and published the first “Bush plays Peoria” story of the day. Except they got the cliche wrong:
It’s the ultimate political cliche: “How’s it playing in Peoria?” President Bush will find out today.
No, no, no. It’s “Will it play in Peoria?” Not, “How’s it playing in Peoria?” If you’re going to be so unoriginal as to drag out that tired old cliche, at least say it right. Sheesh.
By the way, as long as we’re on the subject, did anyone go? What did the President have to say?
oh commiekid:
narcissistic is an awfully big word… impwessive, but what does it mean?
I mean, what do you think it means in relation to anything i have written?
Were you just showing off your Word Power investment?
commie kcdad, thanks for being real. You are appreciated. Now go back to initiating the revolution. Again. Good luck professor
kcdad wrote: There isn’t any point in discussing the early church with Capitalistas, you see everything in terms of money and wealth.
No, it’s about the truth. You keep making lame attempts to link early Christians with communism and you fail each time.
Paul was a salesman. You believe that tent maker garbage, eh?
Acts 18:3 (NIV) says, Paul went to see them, and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.
kcdad wrote: “WE gave you this rule” Apparently they were living communally and Paul didn’t like it… “We worked night and day”… does that sound like Jesus’ message? “Consider the lilies of the field…”
First, in Matthew 6:25-32, Jesus was basically saying not to worry as God will take care of our needs. That doesn’t mean we are to mooch off of each other. Read Proverbs. Second, you’re being selective when it comes to scripture, you read into it what you want and you pit Paul against Jesus. Remember 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
OK folks, for what its worth, here’s my perspective.
Yes, many of the early Christians did adopt a communal or, if you want to call it “communistic” lifestyle where they owned everything in common. Some Christians still live this way today, for example, religious orders which take vows of poverty, groups like the Amish or Bruderhof, etc. But — they do so BY CHOICE, not because the government forces them to.
The so-called “evangelical counsels” of poverty, chastity and obedience, which became the basis of vowed religious life, all involve people VOLUNTARILY giving up, for the sake of a greater good, things that they have a natural right to: earning their own living and owning their own property (which they renounce by taking the vow of poverty), marrying and having a family (the vow of celibacy gives this up) and choosing where and how they wish to live (given up in obedience).
The fact that some people choose to give these rights up for the sake of a greater good does not oblige EVERYONE to do the same. Even less does it oblige the government to impose this way of life on everyone.
To compare the lifestyle of the early Christians to the life people live under a communist government is like comparing a happy marriage to long-term sexual abuse. One relationship is entered into freely, the other is not.