“When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites. They neglect their appearance, so that they may appear to others to be fasting. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you may not appear to be fasting, except to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you.” – Matthew 6:16-18
Why the Biblical quote? Because I got this in my e mail from Justin Rubin at MoveOn:
We don’t have a budget crisis in Washington. We have a moral crisis.
When Congress can seriously debate forcing veterans into homelessness and cutting food aid to pregnant women and children, while giving tax breaks to billionaires, something is very, very wrong.
That’s why this morning, I joined, along with the heads of seven other major progressive organizations, in an ongoing fast launched by religious leaders to protest the brutal and unjust budget cuts being debated in Washington…
So now a desire to not spend money we don’t have is an immoral action? And the liberals are asking us to engage in a very public, religious act in opposition to a proposal to not spend non-existent money? And they’re doing this during Lent when a lot of Christians fast every Friday? Sorry, but this is just too outrageous.
The immorality of not spending non-existent money on the kids of today? How about the immorality of saddling today’s kids with crushing debt because liberals really won’t agree to any cuts, at all? Budget cuts are brutal? How about the brutality of abortion, which liberals want to be taxpayer funded? And this leaves aside the propriety of calling God in to a political battle. When I pray for Obama and the rest of our leaders, what I pray for is that they will listen to God and go along the paths of mercy and justice…I don’t pray they’ll be bent to my political will on this, that or the other issue. It just wouldn’t be fitting to do otherwise…but here come our liberals, people who normally despise all religion, playing upon peoples’ religious feelings in order to protect every last penny of government spending.
A truly disgusting display of both cynicism and hypocrisy.
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