Matthew 10:8-10
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Discuss.
Fucking communists.
Next thing they’re going to do is force everyone to learn how to read and use arabic numerals to do mathematics.
Think of the Children!
I read this as saying god endorses the $15.00/hour minimum wage. I’m a little confused by the meat & staves holy writ.
Maybe Matthew was like my boy, Muhammad. Muhammad ate some really good ‘shrooms in a cave in what was to become Saudi Arabia, and the visions he experienced are the basis of Islam.
@2 “I’m a little confused by the meat & staves holy writ.”
FDR had no difficulty figuring it out: “A chicken in every pot,” because the workman is worthy of his meat.
@1 Actually they are not Arabic numerals, but they are Indian numerals that was acquired by the Moslems when they invaded India. Also they borrowed the mathematics. So they are Indian numerals and math and never forced upon you, but math is pretty freaking amazing, and goes across cultural boundaries. 1 is 1 all over the world of man.
The math of falcons (the bird not the NFL or their fans) maybe different. Not that the disciples had the power to discern avian numbers.
@2 Then you are confused as the Lord expected the disciples to live like vagabonds and perhaps cut a little wood for folks along the way. Maybe pick up the occasional speaking fee (though it may have been in the form of room and board). This God expects a lot for no pay.
@4 FDR is smarter than God. Not hard as most of the Roman Emperors and even the Roman Senators of the Republic had the chicken in every pot figured out,,,at least for their supporters especially when there was an election.
God is clearly not into this whole politics and democratic stuff. He supports despots, kings and authoritarians.
@3 Exactly why would Mohammed go into a cave when he could enjoy khalasi or zubaidis? easily available?
And Allah you know there are no such shooms in Saudi Arabia. These are the mushrooms that grow natively in modern Saudi Arabia.
http://www.idosi.org/wjas/wjas2(1)/1.pdf
The majority are edible, a few are not, but none are like the shrooms you refer to that grow in places like Europe and the New World. Like here in North America.
Allah you know all and really should know better, and it’s never mentioned in the Koran that Mohammed spent any time in a cave. Maybe Merlin but he told you to go fuck off hundreds of years earlier. And Jesus spent some time in a cave.
There are caves in Saudi
http://www.sgs.org.sa/English/.....oring.aspx
Just doesn’t look like Mohammed had the time to explore them. Too busy doing other things. Maybe a little more curiosity about the natural world would have resulted in science truly flourishing in the Arab world, but you don’t care for believers who are questioning and curious. They may cease to be believers in your word and may make jihad upon it. The first thing about growing up is the ability to tell Mrs. McGrudy to screw off and that goes for Allah as well.
@4 What of the staves, the staves. Are they the ones in your tarot deck?
God supports large defense budgets?
Mark,
Based on some of the crazy jive Muhammad came up with, I’m sticking with some sort of psychoactive drug involvement. I think the guy was a child molester, too.
“…nor brass in your purses.”
No doubt used by legions of sloppy gun fetishists to justify not bothering to pick up their shell casings.