What tax rate would Jesus pay?

Over at Say Anything, Rob notes that Joe “Gaffemaster” Biden continues to put his foot in it:

Joe Biden isn’t backing down from his startling claim last week that raising taxes on the rich is the “patriotic” thing to do. On Thursday he upped the ante, thundering that he also has Jesus in his corner. “Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,”

No.  And frankly, I won’t be lectured about Christian charity to by a man who gives “$120 - $995 per year to charity, which amounts to 0.06% - 0.31% of their income.” when my family - although earning about one-third what the Bidens make - starts our giving at 20% of our gross income.  Well, Mr. Biden, charity begins at HOME, as in, yours.  If you think giving isn’t high enough, take out your own wallet - and keep your hands off mine!  Who really benefits from all this “social justice?”  The government does.  Here is a repost of something I wrote in February.  “Social justice” is a false doctrine and Christians should reject it soundly Read more

Prayer on Wall Street

This was a bit unexpected, but I’m not sure why; when trouble comes, people routinely turn to God.

In Crisis, Wall Street Turns to Prayer:

Last Sunday night many Wall Streeters could not get to sleep. After midnight, an executive at one of Wall Street’s leading investment banks, who requested that his name and his company’s not be used, lay in bed watching CNBC report that his competitors were going by the wayside. “I was surprised how quickly it had come. By 8 P.M. we knew how Monday would open. I prayed

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That word, “sacred” - I don’t think it means what you think it means.

A new Jewish prayer for anonymous gay sex ‘unexpected intimacy’:

“In the dark, in a strange place, our father Jacob encountered a stranger with whom he grappled all night,” the prayer begins, referring to the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the angel. “He never knew the stranger’s name, yet their encounter was a blessing, which turned Jacob into Israel and made him realize, I have seen God face-to-face.”

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Google forced to allow pro-life ads in the U.K.

After a legal threat, Google will allow pro-life groups to advertise:

It had refused a Christian Institute advert, saying it did not allow the advertising of websites with “abortion and religion-related content”.

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A Radical Adjustment

From today’s Tozer Devotional -

They have renounced this world and have chosen a new model after which to pattern their lives. This is the aspect of the Christian life that most people do not like. They want comfort, blessing and peace, but they recoil from this radical, revolutionary break with the world.

That’s a good description of why I despise the prosperity “gospel” - Jesus on Amway - so deeply.  Fox’s Book of Martyr’s… story after story of people glorifying God up to and including their deaths because love for Him and because His glory was more important to them.  And the millions upon millions of untold stories of the average Joe Christian daily picking up his cross and persevering… it will be a pleasure in heaven to hear those stories.

I think particularly in America, people think “easy” and “good” are synonymous.  They aren’t.  Christianity isn’t easy, but it is good.

The grace to accept… the hour chosen by God

Pope Benedict suggests that the sick pray for “the grace to accept, without fear or bitterness, to leave this world at the hour chosen by God.”

Good advice.  It’s a safe bet that none of us are getting out of this world alive.  Read more

Sarah Palin’s Christian Testimony

Interesting:

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In God’s Hands

Here’s a miraculous story at CNN -To infinity and beyond: A sparkling survival story:

After a rip current swept the [autistic] boy and his father out to sea Saturday, darkness fell, and the sound of rescue helicopters and boats grew faint until they were nonexistent.

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