Wow.
So Stephen Colbert interviewed Mary Matalin the other day. He heads right in, spots the cross she’s wearing, and says, riffing on Glen Beck:
Colbert: “Now why are you wearing a cross … you know Jesus preached Social Justice – it makes you look like a Commie.”
Matalin: “Yes he did. He also preached teach ’em how to fish, don’t give ’em a fish, right? You don’t work, you don’t eat.”
Colbert: “He said ‘I will make you fishers of men.‘ I don’t believe Jesus said, ‘If you don’t work, you don’t eat.’ … I believe he said ‘sell everything you have and give it to the poor, and then you will find the kingdom of God,’ but …”
Matalin: “close enough …”
Tip: nowhere in the Bible does it say “give a man a fish, you feed him for a day…” yadda yadda. So here’s this sanctimonious Republican strategist, wearing her cross, leading into why she thinks it’s a bad thing to help 35 million uninsured Americans, and claiming that Jesus said “you don’t eat, you don’t work.”
Amazing. Let’s hear it for the party of morals and values!
Colbert is sort of right when he said:
I don’t believe Jesus said,….
It was Paul in his second letter to the Thessalonians
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule:
“If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
But you will get the argument that Paul was only sayn’ what God told him to say and that God/Jesus = same diff.
so…
Yep – it wasn’t Jesus – it was Paul writing to the Thessalonians:
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule:
“If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
http://net.bible.org/verse.php?book=2Th&chapter=3&verse=10
Of course, one could argue that Paul only wrote what God told him to and that God/Jesus = same diff.
Huh, ok – so I learned something. :)