Mad Right Wingers should consider the story of the Prodigal son.

[Democrats_win]

This relates to the idea that Right wingers think that people who didn't end up in foreclosure shouldn't be helping those that are in foreclosure.

But that's not the way of Jesus or God. In the Prodigal son story, the father is happy that his son has survived his foolish ways. He actually restores his son to a position equal to that of all his sons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son
snip:
The older brother resents the favored treatment of his faithless brother and complains of the lack of reward for his own faithfulness. But the father responds:

Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was (good) that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

[LSparkle]

1. The wingnuts read the "Prosperity Gospel" not the real Bible ... n/t

[kirby]

2. Carleton Sheets Bible Course - No money down n/t

[fascisthunter]

3. rightwingers read the NYPOST not the Prodigal Son

[54anickel]

4. Not to pick on your wiki source, but it's definitely a western view. It leaves out two

minor details.

There was a man who had two sons. 12The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.
13"Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

In a capitalist society, squandering one's inheritance is obviously a very bad thing. But we just had a discussion on this recently in a mini-seminary class. Students from different countries were asked why did the son end up poor and hungry in a pig pen. The Tanzanian students said the reason he ended up poor, hungry and in a pigpen was because no one would give him anything. No one would come to his aid when he was in need. (Tanzanian culture has a strong sense of community.) A Russian student from the St Petersburg are claimed it was because there was a famine. Loosing his inheritance was no big deal, he was a foreigner in a distant land, people loose their money like that all the time. It was the famine that caused him to end up poor and hungry in a pigpen.

Just wanted to point out another look at the story of the Prodigal son from different points of view.

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