# Interesting Bible verse- **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 28, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821 "2023-11-28T19:50:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/1 "2023-11-28T19:50:22Z")
We all know the GOP, trump, De Santis, Abbott, etc are hypocrites, but here is some ammo to use- Exodus 22:21 KJV **Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.** ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/2 "2023-11-28T19:58:06Z")
Doesn’t count. The US isn’t Egypt. /s ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/3 "2023-11-28T19:58:27Z")
You’re pretty optimistic if you think that quoting the Bible is going to cause anyone in the present-day GOP to change their tune. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/4 "2023-11-28T19:59:44Z")
They would reply “God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne” Psalm 47:8 to justify placing the US under the fundamentalist equivalent of Sharia Law. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/5 "2023-11-28T20:02:15Z")
Any one of those morons is going to spout back with “yeah, but the Bible also says ‘an eye for an eye’!”, all their supporters will yell and cheer, regardless of how wrong they are. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/6 "2023-11-28T20:05:11Z")
And you do realize that if we go with The Bible, we would execute cross-dressers. Just ask Joan of Arc about that. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/7 "2023-11-28T20:13:21Z")
Yes, I am aware that it is hard to penetrate Republican or Right wing Conservative church hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/8 "2023-11-28T20:18:49Z")
I was under the impression that the Bible didn’t have anything to say about cross dressing, and that Joan was executed, essentially, for being an enemy combatant, no matter what the charges might have been. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/9 "2023-11-28T20:23:13Z")
Nope. She was convicted on only one charge - she admitted to wearing men’s clothing during battle and she was executed for it. > A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for anyone who does such things is an abomination to the Lord, your God. (Deut 22:5) Oh and as long as we are going to use the Bible as our guide on how to act. > If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Lev 20:13) So we would put two men having sex to death. DrDeth, are you sure you want to give Republicans that ammo by telling them to follow the Bible in a non-hypocritical way? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/10 "2023-11-28T20:35:07Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > DrDeth, are you sure you want to give Republicans that ammo by telling them to follow the Bible in a non-hypocritical way? They wont and cant. They’d have to condone slavery and animal sacrifice. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/11 "2023-11-28T20:47:21Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > They’d have to condone slavery and animal sacrifice. According to you and others on SD, they’d have no problem with that. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/12 "2023-11-28T20:52:36Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > According to you and others on SD, they’d have no problem with that. Not according to me. Bigotry, homophobia and xenophobia sure. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/13 "2023-11-29T07:48:52Z")
Since when are Trump, De Santis, and Abbott part of the “ye” in question? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/14 "2023-11-29T08:49:19Z")
Is now the time that I reveal that I preached the KJV 23rd Psalm at the corner of Yonge and Dundas in Toronto one time? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/15 "2023-11-29T14:20:45Z")
An oldie but goodie… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3CPjWd4MUXs/maxresdefault.jpg "West Wing - Bartlet & the Bible") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPjWd4MUXs) ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/16 "2023-11-29T14:23:15Z")
Thanks for reminding me of that West Wing classic. One of the best moments of the show. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/17 "2023-11-29T14:55:01Z")
As I remember that little speech quoting the Bible was taken from something someone posted on the Internet someplace. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/18 "2023-11-29T15:03:11Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Since when are Trump, De Santis, and Abbott part of the “ye” in question? Yep, the answer, if they bothered to give it, would be “He was talking to the Jews there, we’re not Jews so it doesn’t apply!” ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/19 "2023-11-29T15:19:27Z")
The problem with getting into the Bible-quoting game is there there are 1,000 verses that favor liberals and 1,000 verses that favor conservatives. Any side and either side could pull verses out of it all day long to support their case, and at the end of the day the argument is no closer to being settled. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821/20 "2023-11-29T16:11:54Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > that little speech quoting the Bible was taken from something someone posted on the Internet someplace No, it was a near-direct shot at Dr. Laura Schlessinger, a radio personality who was getting attention at the time ranting about homosexuality. Edit: I misread your post. Yes, the speech Bartlet gave was cribbed from an online response to Dr. Laura that was floating around the internet at the time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bible-verse/993821.md?page=2)