Comments on: Quotation Tuesday: Politics: Gleneagles Lies http://www.sortroom.net/2005/08/quotation-tuesday-politics/ Filtering through the murky water to highlight what most people sent to page two. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick http://www.sortroom.net/2005/08/quotation-tuesday-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Patrick Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:15:58 +0000 http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2005/08/23/quotation-tuesday-politics/#comment-232 Like you said Marshall, better than I. Is actual action on the behalf of the worlds poor really so difficult a thing to fathom that our leaders must <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4083676.stm" title="Announcing the deal at a meeting of G8 finance ministers in London, the UK's Gordon Brown said now was ''not a time for timidity but a time for boldness''.">pretend to us that we have progress</a> when in fact we have none? We in the West make others toil to make our lives ever more oppulent and easy, while deliberately refusing to ease the burdens and hardships in theirs. Poor Christians are we. Like you said Marshall, better than I. Is actual action on the behalf of the worlds poor really so difficult a thing to fathom that our leaders must pretend to us that we have progress when in fact we have none? We in the West make others toil to make our lives ever more oppulent and easy, while deliberately refusing to ease the burdens and hardships in theirs. Poor Christians are we.

]]> By: Marshall http://www.sortroom.net/2005/08/quotation-tuesday-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Marshall Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:11:27 +0000 http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2005/08/23/quotation-tuesday-politics/#comment-230 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. .... But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. [Matthew 23:1-7, 13-14] Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
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But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

[Matthew 23:1-7, 13-14]

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