Again, there is no truth without love.
Tag Archives: Liberals
Frames of reference
Empathy is the ability to see another person’s point of view.
Science and the left wing and the right
“These key psychological differences can determine whether you’re liberal or conservative”
Some months back, I linked to this article and said I would need to devote more time to it at a later date. A later date has come. It lists fifteen physiological and psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. Some interest me more than others. Let me begin with a fairly bare-bones presentation of the list. Continue reading Science and the left wing and the right
Podcast – Meet the new boss
The political implications of charity.
Meet the new boss
Related blog post: The great questions of our time
Related article: “Race is being used to wreck the middle class”: The silent bigotry of America’s poverty politics
Wikipedia: Reign of Terror
Wikipedia: Great Purge
Music: The Who, “We won’t get fooled again”
Eyes right!
Open heart
There is no truth without love.
Put differently, an open mind requires an open heart. Continue reading Open heart
The liberal “we”
There is a certain futility to talking about
people you never talk with.
Beans and rice
Trump’s Budget Would Partly Replace Food Stamp Benefits With Canned Goods
I respond to the first paragraph only. Nothing else. The first paragraph.
Beans and rice are nothing to despise.
I first applied for food stamps in 2004. I had had a professional career for 25 years, and for three generations not one member of my family had ever been subject to any form of “welfare.” Now I sat in a 40-by-40 lobby full of people, filling out the forms. Assets: –0–. Bank balance: –0–. Income: –0–. And I wept. I cried like a baby.
A sister-in-law, an #immigrant, responded to this news by waging a campaign for the family to disown me. She would later tell her husband she did not want to be married to a man whose brother receives food stamps. To my family’s credit, her campaign failed. I’ve been through tons of difficulty, and to their credit, my blood kin have never left me.
Beans and rice are nothing to despise.
In my current world as a homeless man, I deal with many, many people who persevere in need BECAUSE they despise every single blessing God provides. My only hope, currently an active hope, to improve my own lot, rests in being GRATEFUL for every blessing God provides.
Beans and rice, for example.
So, here we go: Poor people, listen up! Just in case you DON’T despise every single blessing God provides, it’s OK.
#Liberals like @Arthur Delaney stand ever-ready to despise it FOR you.
Swimming against the tide
The Trump administration’s alternative Christianity
In recent weeks, I have become strongly motivated to become upwardly mobile. This raises theological issues.
Phil Zuckerman is a non-believer. He has no accountability to Jesus or the Scriptures. He doesn’t have to walk the Christian walk or talk the Christian talk. He doesn’t face the challenges, or have to do the work, I do as a follower of Jesus. Yet he wants to prescribe what Christianity must be.
He ascribes a certain Christianity to those who surround Donald Trump, and finds fault with it. I have no need to adopt or reject that Christianity. I have my own to practice. But it is not what Zuckerman wants to prescribe to me.
What’s wrong with Trump’s cronies? Apparently, as Zuckerman sees it, what’s wrong with them is that they’re prosperous. The love of God, as he portrays it, does not apply to prosperous people, but instead the poor. Only the poor.
So, according to the Christianity Zuckerman would prescribe for me, if I become prosperous, God won’t love me any more.
If anyone finds that he says differently from that, please advise. I welcome correction.
(Sigh.)
To walk the path to which I feel I’m called, I may need to focus on a Jesus saying Zuckerman does not cite. In fact, I have never heard any liberal cite it. Nor has it ever been cited in the chapel services at the homeless shelter where I stay; where they seem to think that all that matters is what one believes, and never what one does.
In Matthew 5:14-16, Jesus said, “You are the light of the world. … So let your light shine before others, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.”
In other words, do praiseworthy things.
Praiseworthy actions glorify God.
If I were to become self-supporting, would that be praiseworthy?
Might my example encourage or inspire others?
Might I even teach, by example, the ways whereby one may become self-supporting?
Would that serve God?
As to the whole thrust of liberal ideology, it appears that, if I strive to do what I feel called by God to do, I’m swimming against the tide.
Liberals are biased against the white poor
Study Shows Public Help Racial Bias On The Right — And Left
The bias reflects belief in the politically correct dogma that racism is the sole cause of poverty.
In fact, two thirds of America’s poor are white. Thus racism cannot be the sole cause.
You’d never know that from the mainstream media, however. For example, in a July pictorial in U.S. News and World Report, “The New Faces of U.S. Poverty,” every face is black.
We’ll never understand black poverty until we understand white poverty. And the existence of white poverty, currently, the Left denies.
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