Huh. Yet another BIBLE verse promoting charity.

[ssurgul]

And I HIGHLY doubt it was originally meant to be the '3 cents is enough for you you fucking lazy unemployed layabout!!!!' that the Tea Party / Retardicans are all about.

I was watching Being Human Season 1 again and they brought up one of my favorite lines: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." And I looked up the entirety of the context of that, and SHOCK of shocks, it was radically more encompassing than anything I could have imagined. Gotta love how things can be taken out of context such as these admonitions against the lack of charity, proving that the Right Wing has no 'actual' interest in following the Good Book, just those few lines and pieces they can twist to their fund-raising agenda.

1 Corinthians chapter 13 from King James:

Love
1	Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2	And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3	And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4	¶ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5	doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6	rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7	beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8	¶ Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9	For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10	But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11	When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12	For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13	And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.