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The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid

When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans' newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, "biblically, we are supposed to work."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Fuck you. Murder me outright.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Great, then he should have no problem voting to strip himself and his fellow congressmen of their 100% government funded healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Biblically, he can suck my cock and nosebang my asshole

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why aren't these rich assholes able to buy cloths that fit?

I know it's a side issue to their evil, but it doesn't make any sense.

"I'm going to wear an expensive suit, but you're too poor for me to allow you to take my measurements"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

He looks dead and soulless behind that veneer smile.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

I'm a Christian, and I have no clue what he is talking about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Never read the Biblical, TF has it got to do with me?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't sound like he has worked a day in wretched life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Jim Justice Has worked really hard at screwing over everyone who is not a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Get that fucker in a field where the farmers can't retain other workers!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

yeah and "biblically" we're supposed to be feeding, clothing, washing, and housing the homeless as Jesus commanded. We're supposed to be taking care of the ill, as Jesus commanded. We're supposed to "love thy neighbour" and treat everyone, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, equally as Jesus commanded.

But of course we're not doing any of that and according to the Bible and Jesus that's an instant ticket to "Hell".

If Heaven exists it must be a fairly empty place.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Biblically, we are supposed to be relaxing and taking care of our home.

Work is a divine punishment. I am no Buddhist but this dude didn't read the Quran properly.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It’s weird how Christian dominionists never mention the Jubilee. You’re supposed to forgive all debts every seven (edit: 7 sets of 7, 49) years, and you can’t really own land - God does.

The only parts they read in Leviticus are the ones about killing gays though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

They certainly skipped 18? 19? where it directs people to treat foreigners in your land like the native born.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

That verse you posted said 7x7 years, so every 49 years, with one year off after, so a 50 year cycle. Then I guess they "buy" land throughout the next 50 year cycle based on how many years remain. Ie, if it's 25 years into the cycle, the price for a field might be half off. Not a terrible system really, for the age. At the end of the cycle, it all goes back to the "clan" to be resold again.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What was it again with rich people getting into heaven and the camel/rope and the needle?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

A scripture so inconvenient that they had to spend a good chunk of the last 2,000 years contorting an explanation for why the obvious reading must be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

if only these people didn't pick and choose excerpts from an adult fiction novel in order to justify ruining other peoples' lives.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Luke 12:27-28

27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not [a]arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?

That bible?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They’re talking about the Bible where it says “Work shall set you free”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

That's a different bible with a different title. It's really close, so maybe that's why they confuse it. But that testament they are quoting from is actually called "Mein Kampf".

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