I agree with Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) that we need another Great Depression in America. Folks who went through The Great Depression had a whole different attitude toward life than this spoiled brat generation today. Young people live on credit today, enjoying things before paying for them. During The Great Depression of the 1930's, they lived by the motto... Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without!!! Amen. We need some of that again today. Americans are so spoiled rotten, characterless and spineless these days that we are as dumb sheep before the slaughter. There's nothing wrong in America today that couldn't be remedied by a generation of Spirit-filled preaching preachers!
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Poverty is good.
Abundance is evil.
Says someone with all the luxuries and a life free of labor.
The world needs less full time shit-talking preachers, do something productive with your life or shut up about all others.
You're also pissing off your fellow fundie preachers here, no time , in history ever, is worse than right now. Did you not get the memos?
D.J. Stupid starts out stupid ('We need a Great Depression and starve 'n' stuff because...LADY-PANTS!'), then says something reasonable ('Don't waste stuff/hyper-consumerism bad/frugalism is wise'), then goes back to stupid ('Poverty will bring about flocking to GAWD!')....all the while being stupid (The whole thing).
The funny thing is, the part of his statement that's decent would go against the whole Religious Right's M.O......with all that "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" & sustainable living and stuff.
At least it's a refreshing change from the usual "That darn Taylor Swift with her pants & those new-fangled mood rings and hula-hoops and Tango-dancing to loud Ragtime music!"
I really wish David J. Pedophile would "do without" Internet service!!! We need some of that again today.
"a generation of Spirit-filled preaching preachers! "
As compared to what, preachers that don't preach?
Nothing's stopping you from setting a fine example of Depression-style living by giving away all of your belongings and living hand to mouth like you prescribe for the rest of wicked, wicked America, Davey.
Unless you think it's for THEM only.
During The Great Depression of the 1930's, they lived by the motto... Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without!!! Amen. We need some of that again today.
Why? You think it's fun being poor?
y'know, there was some pretty good music made during the great depression. one song in particular, "how can a poor man stand such times and live ", has been covered by various bands ever since because it just doesn't seem to stop being on topic. i like the one line near the end that goes, "most preachers preach for gold and not for soul".
try looking for the New Lost City Ramblers version, i can't stand Ry Cooder's interpretation. Blind Alfred Reed did a good one, too.
Yes, things are different. Then, Wall Street bankers jumped off tall buildings. Now, they and their oil-and-coal friends possess their own pet legislators, and a few own whole states.
If the economic downturn of the last decade didn't bring about the change what makes you think that another recession will have a different outcome? All it will do is cause more hardship, more desperation, and more misery amongst those affected without these supposed benefits that you promise. Besides, whatever happened to the beliefs in abetting the poor and bringing them out of poverty, instead of keeping them trapped in the mire? Your fellow right wingers have a thing about socialism for this, yet your version of Christianity seems to have that intended purpose.
Also, you could lead as an example and trade your presumably cushy life in Guam for a period of striving in Burkina Faso. Why don't you do this? Hmmmmm.
++"Americans are so spoiled rotten, characterless and spineless these days that we are as dumb sheep before the slaughter."
I didn't realize you still considered yourself an American, Davey.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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