And, oh acerbic one, if you remember correctly I stated in response "then they need help".
I would welcome free vocational training for those who are interested.
Fast Food workers protest and demand more money.
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And, oh acerbic one, if you remember correctly I stated in response "then they need help".
I would welcome free vocational training for those who are interested.
They like to skip those parts- they don't even bring it up in typical churches, it's usually always about how one can pray to get richer
Interesting phenomena.
Should employees work at maximum output levels for a company that works so hard at paying them the minimum of wages legally allowable?
As stated, vocational training will not serve them. Any other gems of advice?
Typical backwards thinking of liberalism.
How so?
care to share the scripture where He praised the greedy who wanted more without earning it?
Institutionalize them?
pay them more to do work that someone will have to redo?
...what.
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He said the kingdom of heaven was similar to when people who worked less got paid the same as those who worked more. The landowner rebuked those who worked hard for wanting more.
| “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went. “He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ 7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’ 8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’ 9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’ 13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” |
How about the years of jubilee when debts were canceled and land returned to the original owners?
Not read your Bible all the way through, eh?
So they'll get outta your hair? Nope...copout.
Don't trouble a Christian with scripture. It never ends well.
I don't think you are saying that people are stupid to take on capitalism, but our economy demands we be permanent consumers that buy the cultural objects and baubles and defer the payments to a future time.
That's how the banksters make their money. And, of course, the myth of "anyone can be rich" is the carrot for the working class.
And the stick is our plutocratic economy.
No Marxist here. Just pragmatic.
ok, what do you propose to do with an unskilled inexperienced entry level worker who can't learn a simple job?
i'm not all that interested in helping bankers make their money :idunno:
The Apostle Paul tells us the following about the rich:
(1 Tim 6:17-18) 7 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
There is nothing wrong with being rich as long as the rich are generous.
Neither Jesus nor the Apostle Paul ever said a word about paying taxes to the government so the government can take care of the poor. But, that's what Liberals like you want to do.
This just proves the point of half my sig: You guys aren't followers of Jesus, you're followers of Paul.
You could care less what's written in the gospels about the rich. (Spoiler alert: They aren't spoken of very highly.)
When it comes to the carpenter, you outright ignore what he told you to do more often than not. You favor the tentmaker instead. Considering he didn't know the Nazarene, this shouldn't surprise anyone.
And seriously, who of any of us on this thread has proposed taxes should "take care of the rich"? The exact opposite, in fact. But interestingly enough, the rich are being taken care of, right now. If this was a Freudian slip, tet, it was a doozy.
The Christ of the gospels cursed the wealthy, the rich, and those who held on to material gains and wealth.
And lo, the dogs came and licked his sores.
But screw Lazarus. Because welfare's for commies and who would Dives be if he gave the guy a handout?