As someone well versed in the Bible who attended seminary, I cant express my anger at Cafeteria Christians like @gregsteube who cherry pick the Bible they don't even understand to justify hate. Nothing screams hypocrisy than those who quote Leviticus, ALWAYS to condemn others...1
...start with foundation: Under Christianity, we're all sinners. So why is it GOPrs think they can say "Oh, we can treat these people terribly because we think they're sinners." By what right, @RepGregSteube? You believe the power to judge is yours, based on part of Leviticus?..2
...but the good thing, @RepGregSteube is that under Leviticus 22 - one of the more repulsive parts of Leviticus - you need to know: Was your wife a virgin when she married you? If so, bring her to her father's home and invite the men of her city to come stone her to death....3
...you, @RepGregSteube, one of God's frauds, want to pick and choose - "Let me condemn others with the Bible by grabbing a section, but then ignore the section *in the same chapter* that you might find inconvenient. It is so easy for a Biblical fraud like you to dig in to...4
...find something to condemn others with, @RepGregSteube, while you preen in arrogance, thinking you have the authority to judge others. I'm sure you condemn homosexuality and have lots of debates about why YOU - oh Holy one - can treat others terribly if you think they sin...5
...if youre Biblically illiterate @RepGregSteube, you probably rely on Leviticus to condemn homosexuality (even though Leviticus is largely interpreted as instructions for religious leaders). Better choice: Romans 1. Oh, but wait! Paul also considered debating to be sin...6
...and once again, @RepGregSteube, that condemnation is right the same chapter. There is no "God highlights homosexuality" page in the Bible. There is no "here is a ranking of where homosexuality stands on the lists of things condemned in the Bible." They're all the same....7
...in other words, being haughty, arrogant, foolish, or being a Christian who files a lawsuit against another Christian, is no different in its Biblical "sin" rating than homosexuality. But I'm sure you don't feel you have the right to deny rights to lawyers, @RepGregSteube...8
...or to other members of Congress. Now, I could dig deep into why the utter hatred that people like you dig out of the Bible to condemn homosexuality is theological idiocy that is simply designed to provide cover for hatred, @RepGregSteube. And then when you people say....9
..."Hate the sin, love the sinner." By what authority? We are ALL sinners, @RepGregSteube. Why do YOU get to decide whether you improve yourself or condemn others? Sounds awfully haughty and arrogant. Which is just the same as being gay, in Paul's worldview.....10
...you people worship wealth & reward greed - which Paul condemns as sin - but then stand above the oppressed saying "they are sinners! So let's fire them and deny them housing and treat them terribly." You, @RepGregSteube, need to try a new church that isn't pure hatred of...11
...of those you think are not as holy as you because, @RepGregSteube, your Biblical ignorance underscores you have no right to condemn anyone....12
...rather than spending so much time digging through the Bible to find a phrase you can use to justify your hatred, @RepGregSteube, maybe focus on the strongest rule of Jesus: ""Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." You...13
...have failed to meet God's greatest commandment, @RepGregSteube. You are a sinner. So am I. But I recognize that Christianity is meant for self-improvement, with Jesus telling us each what we should do. You never get the authority to judge others for what YOU think are...14
...their sins. That isnt your job or mine. We all fail in many different ways. Only the arrogant and the haughty dont know that, don't know that they have no authority to condemn or deny.
Love they neighbor, @RepGregSteube. Start there. And learn what those words mean.
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GOP lies disrepect the people - including children - whom they kill. In Texas, we knew in 2011 that state faced a power collapse if plants werent winterized. Dems put forward a bill requiring plants to winterize to prevent the collapse. GOP voted it down because "freedumb"...1
...and "the free market" and the endlessly bogus incantation "jobs!" when winterizing would have created, not killed, jobs. Reality: Winterizing, requiring power reserves through long term contracts and not just depend on spot market, would cost energy companies money. And...2
...they are the biggest bribers - i mean, GOP campaign contributors - in Texas. So, it saved some money. But this didn't change reality. The report from 2011 and the science made it certain that the power system would collapse. GOP scoffed and laughed, as they ALWAYs do when...3
.@GregAbbott_TX: These kids are some of the 1000s of Texans you killed in past 8 months. This time, because of your deals with energy buddies. The kids died in a fire lit as they tried to stave off freezing.
On you, Greg. On you.
This is a thread of children you’ve killed...1
...here is an 11 year old boy named Cristian. He was freezing, the power was off because of your corrupt deals. Climbed in bed, to get under a pile of blankets.
He froze to death. As he drew he last breath, @GregAbbott_TX, you were on Fox, lying that wind power caused this....2
...think about that @GregAbbott_TX. You were too stupid and corrupt to do anything to help us. Instead, there you were, soft skinned, well fed and warm as you appeared on Fox to lies, time you could have spent helping. As lies passed your lips, Cristian’s lips turned blue...
In 1976, my family was Big Thompson River flood. 2 hotels survived -locally owned one we were in, which let people stay free & doubled up rooms, & Holiday Inn, which tripled rates. I’ve never again stayed in HI for 45 years because of that..1
...we’ve seen the opposite in Texas disaster - a community minded business that wins public affection & is better managed than the state. @HEB is beloved in TX, more so since the recent crisis. In a town where people were in financial trouble, HEB gave away groceries for free...2
...literally, you would walk into the store, head to the cashier, and they would thank you and send you on your way. They were prepared for a disaster. Why? Because at the beginning of the pandemic, this grocery store chain -GROCERY STORES! - commissioned John’s Hopkins to do...3
@GregAbbott_TX was given a report last spring on how to open Texas safely. But his business buddies wanted to open everything at once, so Gregg fired folks who wrote safety report, threw it open knowing it would kill....
...and let 1000s died. Also, @texasdemocrats - @GregAbbott_TX knew that the communities with highest infection rates and death in Dallas were the minority and poor communities, so our leaders sent vaccines there first to save lives and slow the spread. But Greggs rich buddies...2
...wanted to go shopping, and certainly didn’t want to wait in line with folks down at Fair Park so, like a good Trumper, he used the vaccines to blackmail us. He told Dallas, @texasdemocrat, if we didn’t stop worrying about the poor and highest death minority communities....3
...just to score political points - and protect the profits of energy companies - is almost incomprehensible. These are people who would claim Social Security caused 9/11 if it was convenient. What caused this catastrophe is vast vast majority from gas, then coal/nuclear...2
...then wind. The ONLY source of power that is delivering more than expected in budgeting is wind. But that’s not convenient to say for the oil/gas/coal industry, so the @GregAbbott_TX@GovernorPerry@DanCrenshawTX stand atop our dead bodies lying to protect the companies...2
If Texas was on the national grid, our homes wouldn’t be as low as 15 degrees. But no, we had typical yeee-haw thinking we’re better than everyone. Or we could have planned ahead, made sure our wind turbines had cold weather packages - companies like Siemens sell them.../1
...given how much of our power comes from turbines now frozen. Oh, but to do that, theyd have to rely on climate change models that show this has been happening in Texas, would happen, & will get worse as warming air changes both pressure zones around Arctic and jet stream...2
...which has led to polar vortex to come much much further south. Instead, these idiots who think they know more than experts go “Yee-haw! Hardy-hardy-har! It’s so cold and the libs say global warming!! Har har. Let’s watch The Bachelor now.” This would not be anywhere near...3