Quoting the Bible

Since the emergence of the Religious Left to browbeat their fellow citizens into acquiescing in the forced transfer of wealth from one to another–to assuage the guilt and feelings of the aforementioned Religious Left–let’s ponder some other Biblical quotes:

Thou shall not steal.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: God, I thank you that I am not like all other men–robbers, evildoers, adulterers–or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I collect. But the tax collector stod at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

That’s enough for starters. Who, exactly, is placing themselves above others here? Who are the rulers–the powerful, and who are not? Who is doing the judging, and the condemning? Who are concerned not primarily about their own behavior, but seek to change by force the behavior of others?

Update: Here’s why David Harsanyi does this for money, and I don’t[*1] :

Yes, it’s finally come to this. We’ve dragged the Almighty Lord into the debate. It’s Yahweh or the highway.