The left is desperate to coerce Americans into embracing the president's platform of increasing taxes on the wealthy to redistribute to the downtrodden, slothful, and all those between who stand to collect. So Charlie Rangel appealed to a largely Christian nation, "What would Jesus do?"
The hypocrisy here is so obvious that it need not be discussed in detail. Suffice it to say, when and where progressives draw the line on Christian influence in legislation tends to compromise any faith they claim to have. Asking this question about the current budget debate but not about, say, the morality of tax dollars serving to mutilate and siphon unborn babies from their mothers' wombs is suspicious to say the least. If conservatives cite Christ's teaching to protect unborn lives from a progressive agenda that indiscriminately allows for their destruction, it is panned as the archaic ravings of crackpots. Yet when Christ is referenced as a template of charity to advance the progressives' redistributive agenda, nothing could be more pertinent to American values.
So sure, Rangel is a hypocrite. And sure, the hypocrisy is double-thick given his tax evasion. But let's just try to answer his question. Charlie wants to know, how would Christ really feel about the rights of a private property owner, and wouldn't He be for a governmental system that forces wealth from the hands of the wealthy to pay for the lowly masses less fortunate than he?
Perhaps there is an answer in the book of Matthew.
from William Sullivan @ the American Thinker. William Sullivan blogs at: politicalpalaverblog.blogspot.com
2 comments:
proof that this man understands neither the Constitution nor the Holy Trinity.
so true 5:59 but he does understand lining his own pockets and cheating and lying.
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