"Bleeding Heart" Liberals....always used as a deragotory term.

[caledesi]

just where did it originate?



Surprised? Me too...it's the famous painting of JESUS w/ the bleeding heart!

Do the fake Christians know this? Probably not.

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[Gormy Cuss]

1. Nice..

My usual retort is "that's true, because liberal hearts aren't made of stone."

[dissent1977]

2. Thank you so much for pointing that out.

That will be a fun one to mention to the next fundie I hear complain about the "bleeding heart liberals".

[KaryninMiami]

3. It would be fun to post it on all the freeper sites with the caption-

Bleeding Heart Liberal. And maybe post it on some RW Christian boards and blogs too. Better yet, let's post it everyhere they are!

[DanCa]

4. Lol okay i am awake now.

I just got that.

[glarius]

5. Why is liberal considered a dirty word anyway?....if they looked it up in

the dictionary, they would discover liberal means all good things....I don't understand how it got so vilified in your country!:)

[Cha]

16. It has to do with the Fascist press

letting the smearwing have the pulpit..limpbaughs and his hatewaves drumming it into the sheeple's minds 24/7.

I just realized you probably do know how it got so villified in our Country, oh well..never hurts to write it out. :)

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Maybe that's what they are afraid of.

:shrug: Seeing as how the CONservatives are of late so hateful and fearful and just plain greedy.

[0rganism]

6. Or maybe...

[Junkdrawer]

7. Here you go...

BLEEDING HEART -- "an ultraconservative view of ultrliberals, as those whose 'hearts bleed' for the poor, who are 'suckers' for every 'sob story,' and who place tax burdens on all in a mistaken effort to cure social ills...The expression was introduced into political usage in the thirties by columnist Westbrook Pegler. Its origin may be the Order of the Bleeding Heart, a semireligious order of the Middle Ages honoring the Virgin Mary, whose 'heart was pierced with many sorrows.'...By the 1990s the term was applied more broadly and, not without irony, even to ultraconservatives. In April 1990, U.S. News and World Report described New York Federal Judge Robert Sweet as being 'no bleeding heart when it comes to meting out rough sentences.'..." Another passage said Mr. Pegler's most frequent "target" was first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. From "Safire's New Political Dictionary" by William Safire (Random House, New York, 1993).

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/31/messages/601.html

[Blue_Tires]

8. that heart looks to me like its on fire rather than bleeding n/t

[dissent1977]

10. Notice the barbed wire wrapped around it.

[KayLaw]

9. I know

It kills me. The Jesus I've always heard of has so little in common with their guy that I think of as Evil Jesus. . . you know the one who thinks it's cool to invade harmless countries, kick their ass and steal their gas, and - hey- while you're at it, grab a few innocents and rape, torture, and murder them, make them strip and masturbate and have sex with one another, and -just for kicks- grab their little brown kids from their beds and do them, too! YeeHaw.

[caledesi]

11. It is the "Sacred Heart of Jesus"...but check this out

(c) Hence the devotion is based entirely upon the symbolism of the heart. It is this symbolism that imparts to its meaning and its unity, and this symbolism is admirably completed by the representation of the Heart as wounded. Since the Heart of Jesus appears to us as the sensible sign of His love, the visible WOUND in the Heart will naturally recall the invisible WOUND of this love. This symbolism also explains that the devotion, although giving the Heart an essential place, is but little concerned with the anatomy of the heart or with physiology. Since, in images of the Sacred Heart, the symbolic expression must dominate all else, anatomical accuracy is not looked for; it would injure the devotion by rendering the symbolism less evident. It is eminently proper that the heart as an emblem be distinguished from the anatomical heart: the suitableness of the image is favourable to the expression of the idea. A visible heart is necessary for an image of the Sacred Heart, but this visible heart must be a symbolic heart. Similar observations are in order for physiology, in which the devotion cannot be totally disinterested, because the Heart of Flesh toward which the worship is directed in order to read therein the love of Jesus, is the Heart of Jesus, the real, living Heart that, in all truth, may be said to have loved and suffered; the Heart that, as we feel ourselves, had such a share in His emotional and moral life; the Heart that, as we know from a knowledge, however rudimentary, of the operations of our human life, had such a part in the operations of the Master's life. But the relation of the Heart to the love of Christ is not that of a purely conventional sign, as in the relation of the word to the thing, or of the flag to the idea of one's country; this Heart has been and is still inseparably connected with that life of benefactions and love. However, it is sufficient for our devotion that we know and feel this intimate connection. We have nothing to do with the physiology of the Sacred Heart nor with determining the exact functions of the heart in daily life. We know that the symbolism of the heart is a symbolism founded upon reality and that it constitutes the special object of the devotion to the Sacred Heart, which devotion is in no danger of falling into error.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07163a.htm

If Jesus had a "wounded" heart (notice the barbed wire) then it was definitely bleeding. Take that Fundies!

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[meow2u3]

12. Why do conservative "Christians" hate Jesus?

Jesus had a bleeding heart.

[TaleWgnDg]

13. ah-ha! And "bleeding heart flowers" are said to have grown

.
ah-ha! And "bleeding heart flowers" are said to have grown from the spots left on the ground when Jesus wept . . . or was it as Mary, his mother, wept as Jesus was crucified?!




. . . more formal botanical name: dicentra spectabilis
from the Greek, di (two) and kentron (spur) . . . and spectabilis, from Latin, means spectacular . . .

.

[caledesi]

14. I think it was Mary...guess she was a liberal too...LOL! nt

[Cha]

15. Thanks for showing that picture

of Jesus with the Bleeding Heart..I think I've seen it but totally forgot.

I got a birthday card with a photograph of a branch with "bleeding hearts"(Dicentra spectabilis) on it.

I didn't know exactly what it was at first(I had to ask) but the more I looked at it the more it became clear that it was the perfect card.

[kbm8795]

17. I think the fake Wizard

mentioned it to the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz"

[ignatius 2]

18. I did not know that. My God, this place is awesome, I

learn something new every single day..and I thought I knew it all,LOL.

BTW,I luv bleeding heart lierals, they make a world worth living in!!!

[NewInNewJ.]

19. I'm a Bleeding Heart Liberal

and Proud to be one!!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

21. I am proud to bleed.

In fact, I would have no qualms about sharing the bleeding experience with recalcetrant freepoidals.

In the interest of comity, of course. ;-)

[flordehinojos]

22. IT WAS POPPY BUSH,IN HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST MICHAEL DUKAKIS, WHO

MADE the WORD LIBERAL A DIRTY WORD.

he was sooooooo afraid of it. he had lee attwater working for him.
attwater was to poppy what rove is bo junior (more or les)--before he died of cancer, attwater said that what he did (smearing dukakis) was wrong!!!!!!! poppy bush hasn't gotten the hint and neither have his sons....but perhaps they've heard--but they know that doing the right thing wouldn't buy them the greed and the power that they want to hold.