Greg Brannon, GOP Senate Candidate, Likens Food Stamps To Slavery

[deltex1]

Being dependent upon a superior entity, in exchange for obedience, is slavery.

Matthew 4: 8-11

8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’[e]”

11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

God gives you life, but does not force you to adhere to His will, as such, he is not your Master, but your equal. A companionship with God is the highest form of freedom and transcendence.

Coincidentally, food stamps are alluded to int e same chapter of Matthew:

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a] by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Interestingly, Christian and Jewish charities will give you food for free, with no obligation being due to them, as they see you as equal, not inferior.

I'm always amazed at the bizarre and creative ways "Christians" can quote scripture and misuse it to justify all kinds of messed up thinking.

If we analyze the biblical analogy offered up by the poster, SNAP, a program helping low-income individuals and families buy the food they need to not go hungry -- a program that you have apply for and makes no requirements outside of buying food and feeding your children… In the poster's eyes, this is the same thing as the Satan offering you wealth in exchange for your soul.

I think you'll find that the following biblical quotes speak directly to FOOD and FEEDING THE POOR. No thin analogy or hidden meaning. THIS is what the bible says about caring for the least of my brothers.

Matthew 25:35

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

Isaiah 58:10

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Proverbs 28:27

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

James 2:14-18

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Luke 3:11

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

1 John 3:17-18

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Proverbs 31:20

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Matthew 14:15-21

Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” And he said, “Bring them here to me.” Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Romans 12:20

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Matthew 25:37-40

Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Proverbs 22:9

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.

Matthew 25:34-46

Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

John 6:55-59

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

Luke 9:13

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Isaiah 61:1-2

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

1 Corinthians 11:21

For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

Nehemiah 5:1-19

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Deuteronomy 24:19

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Job 31:16-21

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow), if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


Matthew 25:37

Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?


2 Kings 4:43

But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”

And The Lord obabble sayeth "raise taxes and pith the muny down yo laig."

 

[tinydancer]

How the hell did this turn into a religious debate? Jeez.

That's probably what Hitler said, while targeting persons for their religious beliefs.

What's the religious belief that opposes giving food to the needy?

Not mine. And what sort of really shocked me about tithing is that no church involved it was to be given directly to the poor. If you read the Word you learn the truth. Not anyone's interpretation on it.

I freaked when I read this passage and I started to understand the mind of our Lord and just how much he loves us all.

 

[bripat9643]

Greg Brannon, GOP Senate Candidate, Likens Food Stamps To Slavery

Wow and to think a year ago I was going to vote for this fucking clown. What a piece of shit.

Those of us who have to pay for this boondoggle are enslaved.

 

[tinydancer]

Being dependent upon a superior entity, in exchange for obedience, is slavery.

Matthew 4: 8-11


God gives you life, but does not force you to adhere to His will, as such, he is not your Master, but your equal. A companionship with God is the highest form of freedom and transcendence.

Coincidentally, food stamps are alluded to int e same chapter of Matthew:



Interestingly, Christian and Jewish charities will give you food for free, with no obligation being due to them, as they see you as equal, not inferior.

I'm always amazed at the bizarre and creative ways "Christians" can quote scripture and misuse it to justify all kinds of messed up thinking.

If we analyze the biblical analogy offered up by the poster, SNAP, a program helping low-income individuals and families buy the food they need to not go hungry -- a program that you have apply for and makes no requirements outside of buying food and feeding your children… In the poster's eyes, this is the same thing as the Satan offering you wealth in exchange for your soul.

I think you'll find that the following biblical quotes speak directly to FOOD and FEEDING THE POOR. No thin analogy or hidden meaning. THIS is what the bible says about caring for the least of my brothers.

Matthew 25:35

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

Isaiah 58:10

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Proverbs 28:27

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

James 2:14-18

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Luke 3:11

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

1 John 3:17-18

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Proverbs 31:20

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Matthew 14:15-21

Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” And he said, “Bring them here to me.” Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Romans 12:20

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Matthew 25:37-40

Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Proverbs 22:9

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.

Matthew 25:34-46

Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

John 6:55-59

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

Luke 9:13

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Isaiah 61:1-2

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

1 Corinthians 11:21

For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

Nehemiah 5:1-19

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Deuteronomy 24:19

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Job 31:16-21

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow), if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


Matthew 25:37

Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?


2 Kings 4:43

But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”

And The Lord obabble sayeth "raise taxes and pith the muny down yo laig."

I'm just going to say it once. Be careful gentlemen.

 

[hazlnut]

I'm always amazed at the bizarre and creative ways "Christians" can quote scripture and misuse it to justify all kinds of messed up thinking.

Talk about messed up thinking and misusing scripture. Read all your quotes, show us the ones that Jesus is saying that charity is the job of the government to provide...

I'm not sure what grade you got in Civics class but our government, a Republic, is an extension of our will and our character as a people.

We Americans are charitable and compassionate. (most of us anyway)

The social safety nets represent in part who we are as Americans. We don't let people starve and die on the streets.

I'd like to think that some of the best of who we are as a country comes from the Sermon on the Mount.

Through private and public assistance we express our values as a people.

Those who actually believe and follow Jesus can see him in the poor families that would go hungry if not for SNAP program.

 

[tinydancer]

You if you read the Word beginning to end and I love it (ok the begats get tedious) It's an embracement of history. It has drama more than anyone could want HA THINK of the tv show. Real Christian housewifes. Tickets only 24.95. Flm at 11 if you couldnt' make it.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The great thing is that the evangelicals and fundamentalists and Pentecostals and other 'christian' heretics will never be bothered in the churches, dens, and covens.

They simply will not be allowed to impose their convoluted morality on other Americans.

 

[tinydancer]

Look what's with the continual crap that Christians hate the poor Who are the first ones who open their pockets?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Christians contribute to the poor every day in every way. I am not LDS, but I know their fast offerings (which is given the first Sunday of every month and is not a part of their tithe) go to taking care of the needy.

 

[tinydancer]

The great thing is that the evangelicals and fundamentalists and Pentecostals and other 'christian' heretics will never be bothered in the churches, dens, and covens.

They simply will not be allowed to impose their convoluted morality on other Americans.

Whoa geeze with all due respect, I'm not getting your post here.

 

[bripat9643]

Look what's with the continual crap that Christians hate the poor Who are the first ones who open their pockets?

Liberals think other people hate the poor because they know they wouldn't give a dime to help the poor if they weren't compelled to, so if someone objects to being compelled, it's only because they don't want to help the poor.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Greg Brannon, GOP Senate Candidate, Likens Food Stamps To Slavery

Wow and to think a year ago I was going to vote for this fucking clown. What a piece of shit.

You could have saved a lot of time by coming to the realization a year ago that most TPM candidates are not qualified to hold public office.

"We're taking our plunder, that's taken from us as individuals.. and the government is now keeping itself in power by giving these goodies away," Brannon said. "The answer is the Department of Agriculture should go away at the federal level. And now 80 percent of the farm bill was food stamps. That enslaves people. What you want to do, it's crazy but it's true, teach people to fish instead of giving them fish. When you're at the behest of somebody else, you are actually a slavery to them.. That kind of charity does not make people freer."

It’s this type of reckless, irresponsible, ignorant, and reprehensible rightwing dogma that will cost republicans the Senate this November.

 

[HenryBHough]

In Islington there was a man
of whom the world might say....


Etcetera, etcetera and so-forth....

 

[JakeStarkey]

The great thing is that the evangelicals and fundamentalists and Pentecostals and other 'christian' heretics will never be bothered in the churches, dens, and covens.

They simply will not be allowed to impose their convoluted morality on other Americans.

Whoa geeze with all due respect, I'm not getting your post here.

young geeze, they can't stop same sex marriage or turn it back no matter how hard they try

Sotomayor has a hidden majority and is preparing the final coup

 

[National Socialist]

Greg Brannon, GOP Senate Candidate, Likens Food Stamps To Slavery

Wow and to think a year ago I was going to vote for this fucking clown. What a piece of shit.

Those of us who have to pay for this boondoggle are enslaved.

Poor you. You have to be forced to help your fellow man. What about all those that work yet still need FS?

 

[HenryBHough]

young geeze, they can't stop same sex marriage no matter how hard they try

Liberals were so strong for it only because they plan to tax it.

 

[tinydancer]

Jake you have to understand it s not a matter of morality. That's in the Word and so many of us are struggling with this because we all know people who are gay and they are wonderful and sweet and the kindest people you can meet.

My favorite line for one couple I know FABULOUS

 

[JakeStarkey]

young geeze, they can't stop same sex marriage no matter how hard they try

Liberals were so strong for it only because they plan to tax it.

Doesn't compute. Dems and Pubs always support tax breaks for the married.

Some of the far right and the libertarians oppose that, but that makes no sense.

 

[whitehall]

He also said "that kind of charity does not make people freer". It puts them in bondage to the federal government. Pretty smart guy compared to democrat drones who still think they can win LBJ's "war on poverty".

 

[JakeStarkey]

He also said "that kind of charity does not make people freer". It puts them in bondage to the federal government. Pretty smart guy compared to democrat drones who still think they can win LBJ's "war on poverty".

"bondage to the federal government" horse poo they don't have to collect anything

bondage to the business owner; now that it is economic slavery