JC tells us that that employer better not be rich. I’m having trouble finding this guy’s annual salary, but if it’s more than (to grab a figure almost at random, but really looking for the median US income level) $50,000, he could cut his salary and thereby maintain some workers.
Of course he doesn’t have to do so. But for him to pray to Jesus and then fire a bunch of workers, without taking a personal giant cut in salary, is the height of hypocrisy.
And here I thought Republicans built things themselves.
Jesus also told of a parable where servants to invest their talents, which shows that he was a venture capitalist and approved of rent, interest and wage labour. Also he received gold from some African men which shows he disapproved of fiat currency.
I think this man is a great standard bearer for capitalism. When people consider the staggering unemployment rate under our Dear Leader and note that this man is still willing to sacrifice his employees in order to protect the bottom line, he’ll receive nothing but adulation. Far more reasonable than sinking capital in unproductive industries like GM.
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Nope. Think of what Jesus told Judas about the very expensive oil MM “wasted” anointing him [Jesus].
OK, so this guy’s off the hook, provided he’s the son of God. I’m not sure that changes anything, John.
The point is, there are many things in the NT that can be cobbled together to support whatever narrow view you want to espouse. But there isn’t just one, clear-cut view. And nowhere does it say that JC played by different rules than he expected us to play by.
This scumbag cited God while firing his employees and blaming Obama.
Not only is he lying, but he’s using God’s name in the lie.
He’s gonna burn, assuming God does that.
And he’ll be required to bring his own coal, too! 
If your point is that people can bullshit pretty effectively with the Bible, that’s just as conceded as any other Cptn. Obvious point you care to make. If you’re suggesting that the gospel is unclear on this point, however, you’re just ridiculously wrong.
What point is the gospels clear on? You can say I’m “ridiculously wrong”, if you want, but in this forum you’re expected to prove things, not just state them. Your point about the guy being "rich’ is laughable, since we don’t know what Christ meant by “rich” and we don’t know what this guys finances are.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Matthew 19:23-24
He says it ALSO in Luke 18: 24-25 and in Mark 10:24-25
Jesus also said “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
This guy is not a follower of Jesus, he is an example of Religion inc. None of these so called Christian-Republicans should be considered spiritualists. There is a reason it is so hard for rich people to get to heaven: to get rich you have to shit on your fellow man.
But maybe he meant billionaire, not just multimillionaire. YOU DON’T KNOW!!!11!one!!
That is as absurd as saying all poor people are poor because they were lazy and unvirtuous.
Or as I say;
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at who he gives it to.”
Really? You think we have as much evidence as to what makes people poor as we do for what gets people into heaven?
No, he was right, I was being a jerk (mentally mixed up my forums there for a moment). Which is why I immediately apologized.
How much money does the guy in question have?
Pfft. Being a Christian isn’t the same as being “perfect”, and if this is the standard, then no one except a handful of monks is a Christian.
I seem to recall Jesus saying something about judging others, too.
Enough to be rich by any reasonable standard of the term. I mean, c’mon. Are you seriously entertaining for an instant that the camel-through-the-needle soundbite sets the bar so high that the CEO of the largest coal operation in the US would be excluded?
And this is the lovely thing about not being a Christian: I can judge him by his own standards and say that either he’s wrong about the cosmos, or he’s not going to heaven, one or the other.