{"id":10355,"date":"2011-11-02T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T18:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2011-11-02T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T18:19:32","slug":"new-interpretation-of-bible-finds-laying-off-employees-violates-ten-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/new-interpretation-of-bible-finds-laying-off-employees-violates-ten-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"New Interpretation Of Bible Finds Laying Off Employees Violates Ten Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2011110150319\" target=\"_blank\">facile letter to the editor<\/a>, a Christian of some sort, amid the regular blurrings of doctrine, uncovers the emanations and penumbras of the Ten Commandments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, when the conservative politicians say they are going to do away with Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, then as a Christian I must speak out and say this is wrong to bring hardship and shorten the lives of people.<\/p>\n<p>Christians, if you support the conservative movement because of abortion, then I wish to point out that Jesus says nothing about abortion or murder in his admonishment in Matthew, and there are nine other commandments, too. <b>If you cause a person to lose their income and cause a person to lose their way to pay for a doctor you are murdering them.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say regular blurrings because this fellow talks about the early Christian church, a voluntary organization of like-minded individuals (come to think of it, that describes Christian churches even today) coming together and sharing their goods voluntarily and compares, not contrasts, that with the government&#8217;s compulsory behavior, where like-minded or not, individuals must sacrifice their time, talents, efforts, and goods to others who have less for whatever reason (sometimes hard luck, sometimes bad choices) as legitimized by a Rousseauan &#8220;Social Contract&#8221; foisted on them without their implicit consent.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, also he says violating 10% of the Ten Commandments is okay, apparently.  And then goes onto say that laying someone off from a job is the equivalent of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, in so many interpretations of Christianity, Jesus&#8217;s lessons were for all people to behave just as the interpreter does already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a facile letter to the editor, a Christian of some sort, amid the regular blurrings of doctrine, uncovers the emanations and penumbras of the Ten Commandments: So, when the conservative politicians say they are going to do away with Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, then as a Christian I must speak out and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}