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surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)This calls for some photoshopping.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I think Lacey works will be worth something someday. He charges, like, $125 a canvas now and does a good trade in prints.
spanone
(135,844 posts)'shrewd and effective' my ass
AxionExcel
(755 posts)I'm totally down (and up) with authentic Christianity as exemplified by the charity, mercy and compassion of the Christ Spirit. But the fear-saturated, vengeful, materialistic, hate-spewing version of 'Christianity' espoused and practiced by so many people is a gross distortion and perversion of Christ's actual example of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless and driving the usurious Money Changers (R) - like Goldman Sachs where Heidi Cruz is amply compensated - from the Temple
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Paladin
(28,264 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)There are a lot of folks who are perverting the good word and merciful message of Christ. Only a few of them wear hoods.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)When it is said that something "is perverted", most people think that it means it was born corrupt and obscene.
Jefferson meant that christianity has been perverted, corrupted after its inception, by many people who pretend to speak for Jesus, starting with Paul. It seems that you may agree with this view and see Cruz (and probably his preacher father too) as one of the perverters of the religion. Dominionists in particular have a very corrupt vision of christianity's role.
-- Letter to Dr. Joseph Priestley (21 March 1801); published in The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1871) by Henry Stephens Randall, Vol. 2, p. 644; this seems to be the source of a misleading abbreviation: "[Christianity is] the most perverted system that ever shone on man".
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#First_Presidential_Administration_.281801-1805.29
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)go next to the elvis and the dogs playing poker