On Tuesday the 16th of October, I posted a challenge of Facebook, and it looked like this:
I agreed with Thom Kirkpatrick when he wrote, “I wish 1000 people would respond to this.” But just a few stepped up. I appreciated them for doing so, because I was interested in how the choices would turn out.
I guess the results are, in one way, not surprising — given that many on my list of friends tend to be more liberal. (I was surprised, however, that only a couple of my closest followers responded at all.) I made a quick count of the results: three for A; four for B; nineteen for C; and a handful who made alternate choices, typically between B and C.
I thought that those who responded would like to know where the three choices came from, if they didn’t know already.
- Choice A is paraphrased from the GOP’s web site, specifically here.
- Choice B is paraphrased from the DNC’s web site, specifically here.
- Choice C is paraphrased from the Judeo-Christian scriptures, specifically sample verses like these: Leviticus 19:34, Ruth 2:10, Matthew 25:35, Hebrews 13:2, 3 John 1:5, etc. (For the KJV-only folks: Leviticus 19:34, Ruth 2:10, Matthew 25:35, Hebrews 13:2, 3 John 1:5.)
Scriptures can be decieving when context of the entire scripture is ignored. That said…interpretation of translated scripture as a famous Jewish rabbi once said… “translators are traitors”. With that said…choosing any of the options would be a compromise to the heart of the matter and due to being human, due to our influences from society or religious beliefs, every option is right for somebody.