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We're Christian, and we're here to help : Comments

By Rowan Forster, published 25/12/2013

What do The Red Cross, Amnesty International, Opportunity International, Habitat for Humanity...have in common.

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Posted by Jayb, Saturday, 4 January 2014 7:58:47 PM
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.U.S. judge asks: Why haven’t the financial executives been prosecuted?

Michael Hiltzik
Los Angeles Times
January 3, 2013

As the five-year statute of limitations approaches for the wrongdoing that bequeathed us the Great Recession, the question of why no high-level executives have been prosecuted becomes more urgent.

You won’t find a better, more incisive discussion of the question than the one by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of New York in the current issue of the New York Review of Books.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jan/09/financial-crisis-why-no-executive-prosecutions/
[...]

In his new essay, Rakoff takes particular aim at the government’s habit of prosecuting corporations, but not their executives — a trend we railed against earlier this year.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20130208,0,1163345.column#axzz2oz48CY00
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* http://www.infowars.com/world-trade-center-asks-911-judge-to-dismiss-amr-defense/ Barclays Executives Knew of Libor Lowballing, Guardian Claims
* http://www.infowars.com/barclays-executives-knew-of-libor-lowballing-guardian-claims/ Chevron executives barred from leaving Brazil over spill
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Posted by one under god, Monday, 6 January 2014 5:39:42 AM
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Well, this has been fun. Again.

For some reason, every so often Christians decide they need to justify their faith by parading their charities. Fair enough. In these more enlightened times they need every piece of ammunition they can get, to defend their irrational beliefs.

This thread has at least produced one little gem - thank you, Grim.

>>"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven" etc. etc.<<

Another example of how it is embarrassingly apparent that Christians observe only a carefully managed selection of what their instruction manual tells them. And then have the chutzpah to criticize zealots from other religions for performing exactly the same feat of self-deception.

And while I am here, a small correction.

>>The survey cited World Vision (one of Australia's largest Christian agencies) setting a 'gold standard' in this area: 11% on expenses, the rest to the nominated cause.<<

The actual figure for World Vision, which is easily checked via the organization's own annual report, is that only 75.1% of the money raised is actually applied to charitable purposes. The "11% expenses" figure conveniently ignores the cost of raising the funds in the first place.

And Mr Costello, of course, continues to deliver amazing value for his quarter-of-a-million-plus remuneration.

"Gold standard" indeed.
Posted by Pericles, Monday, 6 January 2014 9:09:54 AM
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I'm surprised at the ease with which Christians have been allowed to hijack what are the essentially Jewish values clearly set out in the Torah (Pentateuch) and proclaimed by the Jewish preacher Yeshua (Jesus), as if they were his invention, rather than his reaffirmation of the Jewish tradition.
Tony O'Brien
Hobart Hebrew Congregation
Posted by tonyo, Thursday, 9 January 2014 8:25:15 PM
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Dear Tonyo,

The Pentateuch is full of commandments to murder: of animals for sacrifice; of a first-born donkey if not redeemed; of the seed of Amalek; of all the males of a city conquered from the seven Canaanite nations; of adulterers and others who break certain commandments; even to slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn that city. It also prescribes striping for breaking other commandments and injuring all innocent male babies.

If you proudly claim intellectual-property rights over the nice and humane among the commandments, as many indeed are, then you cannot be selective about the text.
If on the other hand you can pick and choose, then so can others.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 9 January 2014 9:06:03 PM
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Yuyutsu,..<<..If on the other hand you can pick and choose, then so can others>>

Thats funny..[i was just noting the flag[ON TOP OF SHARRONS..casket
the blue lines under and on top..[plus the DAVIDIan/star]..

noted..they..]look the same..right-side up..as well as upside down[tHE USUAL 'sign'..of distress*][this symbolism..is NOT OF gods will..but by mens design.]..we would be betraying..our christian calling..TO NOT POInt this out..

further..LEST WE FORGET]..
The City of David is a Jewish settlement near the Dung Gate of the Old City. On occupied land, and resisted by the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, whose land it is taking.

YOU..who....have adopted..as..a state-symbol
the menorah..(candlebrum).

<<..which is explained..in the Tenach..
(on..the occasion of..a previous return..to the Holy Land).

as,WRITTEN,,,in the sacred texts

*"..not..with..*armed force*..
..and..not with power,*....[*KEY*]
but..*in My spirit..says..the..Lord of Hosts.">>

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6040&page=0#176496

AND WE KNOW..jesus simplified the law to two
love goD..BY..love of other..[not via ..eternal/ongoing war*/MURDER*]

BY THEIR WORKS..NOT WORDS SHALL WE KNOW..them*[of the anti-christ*]
peace..not pieces..TRY..to correct the words..not MODERATED DELECTION.
Posted by one under god, Monday, 13 January 2014 12:20:57 PM
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