See this video of Jeff Sessions’ event in Boston. A Methodist minister interrupted him, quoting Matthew.
“Brother Jeff, as a fellow United Methodist, I call upon you to repent, to care for those in need,” Green said.
“Green then recited Matthew 25:42-43, which begins: “For I was hungry, and you did not feed me. I was a stranger, and you did not welcome me.”
“Sessions replied, “Well, thank you for those remarks and attack, but I would just tell you we do our best every day.”
“After security officers escorted Green out of the room, a second minister, the Rev. Darrell Hamilton II, the pastor for formation and outreach at First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain in Boston, then rose to his defense.”
Officers ejected Rev. Hamilton as well.
So much for these fake Christians.
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Nothing Christan about the Federalist Society.
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Christian / love that edit button
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Where is the edit button?
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Sessions cited Romans 13; he can dish it out but he can’t take it.
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Sessions cited Romans 13? The one about paying your taxes? Wow.
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How many ministers, pastors, rabbis, imams, priests, brothers, nuns, religious people would it take to grind the evils of current executive, judicial, and legislative bodies to dust?
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A good point. We need to hear more from people of faith in opposition to the racism and instigations to violence of this misadministration.
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One place people of faith could start is at the religious universities that take money from social Darwinists, the Koch brothers. A second step is cutting off the supply of the universities’ law students to the Federalist Society and the aligned Schaife-funded Judicial Watch.
Catholic University and Southern Methodist University could look within.
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Truly egregious: so much BIG, BIG money spent on keeping “Christian” kids the right kind of “Christian…”
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For the record, the clergyman who quoted Matthew to Sessions was the Rev. Will Green.
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Rev. Green must belong to a different branch of Methodists, the one that is not the church of prosperity. The Methodists’ flagship university, which bears their name, Southern Methodist University, has a lot of pastors on the Board, and they must like the school’s affiliations with the Koch Bros. Salon (Alex Koch-5/17/2016) wrote about SMU holding campus discussions with sweat shop proponents as part of the Business Depts.’ outreach. What’s really funny (and pathetic) is SMU taking Koch money for criminal justice reform, when Koch funded ALEC represents private prisons and promoted the three strikes and out law which has led to the U.S. as the most incarcerated population in the world.
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Funny because the Koch brothers, having encouraged the privatization of prisons, is now devoted to reform of the criminal justice system. Who knows what that means?
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We don’t know the outcome of this particular “philanthropy” but, it would be a first for social Darwinists to show compassion for the 99%. Republicans, the party of the Kochs, scheme to suppress votes in every way possible. Why would we expect them to stop a system that disproportionately eliminates voting rights for Black people? They know that minorities go to jail much more often than Whites for the same crimes. Skeptics would suggest that the efforts are aimed at better honing the Black disadvantage.
BTW- there’s a chapter of the Federalist Society at SMU. The two ministers’ protests were at a Federalist Society meeting.
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Hillary Clinton is also a Methodist.
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The reason I posted that previous comment was that in the original post, the first protesting pastor was referred to only as “Green.”
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Not surprising that Gruppenführer Sessions had these men thrown out. Just what one would expect this hypocrite to do.
Sessions’s exact words, btw, were,
“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.”
“I would cite you to”? Aie yie yie.
Now, tell me, how does one become the chief legal officer of the country or even, for that matter, graduate from law school without learning how to use the verb “to cite” properly? Evidently, Gruppenführer Sessions managed to do so.
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These words were often used to justify monarchy in Europe. Long live King Jeff.
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But I doubt that Jefferson Davis Sessions is bright enough to read Hobbes, Roy.
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Thank you for posting AG Sessions’ exact words. Notice that St. Paul said that one should “be subject to the governing authorities” and not to be one who “resists the authorities.” Sessions says one should obey the laws of the land by not saying that the actions of government are morally wrong. OK, what is the law of the land regarding criticism of government? As the chief law enforcer of the land the AG should know. It is the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution (the 14th Amendment extended the protections of the U.S. Constitution to state governments).
So the law that critics of the Trump administration are supposedly disobeying are nonexistent laws forbidden by the Constitution. Typical fascist thinking.
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yes, exactly
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Sessions’ intolerance is on full display by having clergymen that voice dissent ejected from the event. While Sessions and Trump may not always agree, they both demonstrate shared intolerance of those that disagree with or are different from them.
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The ejection was fine; their point was made. I did a hell of a lot worse to a Republican Candidate for Congress on Friday calling him out for a bald-faced slander. In a meet the candidate forum When asked by the organizers to sit I told them to throw me the hell out but the slander won’t stand. And the funny part in a roundabout manner it involved the Federalist Society as they used the Congressman’s original Comment as a sign of bipartisan acknowledgment of the intent of the Second Amendment; which it was not.
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This is way off topic but one of interest.
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Dear FedEx CEO Fred Smith,
We, the undersigned, thank you for listening to your customers and ending your relationship with the National Rifle Association’s Business Alliance.
In doing so, you’ve joined at least 40 other companies that have realized that their ties to the NRA are not more important than American lives, and that working with the gun lobby undermines our shared American values.
Guns Down America and our partners, including Color of Change and Voto Latino, collected more than half a million petition signatures from people who don’t want their shipper to help the NRA recruit new member. You listened to our voices!
Your decision is part of a larger trend: companies are realizing that the NRA is losing power and influence.
Insurance underwriters, banks, car rental companies, airlines and now shippers are recognizing that the NRA’s declining membership dues, shrinking approval ratings, deadly commitment to flooding our communities with guns, and hateful rhetoric, have no place in American public life.
FedEx, your decision to join this growing number of companies is another indication that Americans no longer buy the NRA’s message: they’re long past ready to support bold policies that can help build a future with newer guns.
This is a huge deal, and you deserve our thanks for standing up for American lives, and standing with the millions of Americans across our country who have already shunned the gun lobby.
Thank you!
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Awesome
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Carol,
Can I reactivate my FEDEX account now?
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No; use UPS they are Union
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Diane, how about calling FedEx and see if they treat you better? I wonder if the phone callers know anything about the dropping of FedEx? I signed the letter that was sent which thanked the CEO for dropping the NRA. The NRA has killed more people in the US than any terrorist, even more than the really bad mothers and children [rapists, drug dealers and murders] that come across our southern border. [sarcasm]
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FedEx Ends NRA Discount Program, Citing Low Shipping Volume
The company said politics didn’t influence the decision and does not link it to the Pittsburgh shooting.
By Ryan Grenoble
FedEx has used the slogan “The World on Time” in varying capacities since 1994. Yet its decision, announced Tuesday, to end a program that gave discounts to business members of the National Rifle Association arguably arrived eight months late.
A spokesman for the shipping and logistics company confirmed to HuffPost the NRA is no longer associated with any FedEx marketing programs. The news comes as a quiet update to its position in February, when it decided against severing its marketing relationship with the firearm advocacy group despite mounting pressure following the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead…
FedEx painted its latest move as strictly a business decision motivated by low shipping volume. It noted that the NRA is one of more than 100 organizations affected by the discount program’s cessation…
Article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fedex-ends-nra-discount-program_us_5bd8a5fce4b01abe6a18d42a
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Time to revive my Fedex account!
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When possible, send USPS.
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Always fun when bronze-age myth enters the policy arena… Great letter Carol – Thank you.
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lmao, yes
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Bronze Age myth? According to whatever views on the Net that I can reasonably suppose to be held by scholars, the Bronze Age ended either during the time of the Pharaohs associated with the Exodus, or during the time of the Judges. The earliest parts of the Bible seem to have been written in the time of the divided, pre-exilic monarchy (I don’t know about the Song of Deborah in Judges)So it seems that either all or almost all of the Bible was written in the Iron Age. All of the New Testament, including the books invoked by the two Methodists, was written in the Iron Age, when classical antiquity was in full swing.
As for the events described in the Bible, those that occurred after about the time of Joshua could not possibly have been Bronze Age myths – they happened, if at all, in the Iron Age.
The only people today AFAIK who can claim in good faith that any sizable part of the Bible was written in the Bronze Age are those who claim that Moses wrote the Pentateuch.
I don’t know how today’s secularists came up with the notion of Bronze Age authorship, but those who claim science as their inspiration should know better.
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On another occasion, apropos of child detention, Sessions cited Romans 13 about obeying the government. Here is Romans 13:1-2:
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.”
So merely speaking ill of the actions of government is resistance that incurs God’s wrath? You can’t get it plainer than that.
That’s what I mean by saying that Sessions can dish it out but he can’t take it.
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Philadelphia’s D.A., Larry Krasner, wants new and seasoned D.A.’s to change their approach to the system that results in incarceration for so many people. (The U.S. has the most incarcerated population in the world due in substantial part to ALEC.) Krasner tells the D.A.’s who are gathered, “You represent kids who are going to public schools and have too many kids in their classes….you are stewards of an enormous amount of social resources- (consider) what those kids’ lives can be in 10-15 years if those resources are directed to the schools.”
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The two ministers who criticized Sessions can be sent messages of thanks. The .org site of Rev. Hamilton’s church lists the following email address, darrell@firstbaptistjp.org.
Rev. Green’s church, Ballard Vale United Methodist Church, Andover, Mass., has a contact form at its site.
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OK, so I was wrong about the end of the Iron Age, but I still maintain that most if not all of the Bible was written after the Bronze Age, during or after the Iron Age. So stop dismissing the Bible as a lot of Bronze Age myths. It isn’t historical.
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