The things liberals say about God
First, Jesus Christ was a community organizer, and now, according to State Representative Tommie Brown, God is a socialist. Next thing you know, the Holy Spirit will be a registered Democrat.
Representative Brown was discussing cuts in the state’s budget in order to balance out an estimated $800 million deficit. Here’s the full quote: “I will be there doing battle for children and poor and middle-class families. We have to try to protect them. Maybe that’s socialism, but I suspect God might be a socialist, particularly Jesus Christ when he stopped to feed the multitudes.”
A couple of things.
First, Representative Brown apparently falls for the thinking that government, and not families, is the sole guarantor of our children’s well-being. Government has no such role. If she really wanted to do something for the children, the poor, and the middle-class, she should have joined ranks with the GOP years ago to lower or eliminate the state’s sales-tax on groceries. The Legislature had that opportunity during Governor Bredesen’s first term, when the state ran annual surpluses adding up to more than a billion dollars, and it wouldn’t have taken much to eliminiate the food tax. This was something that Senator Mae Beavers attempted to do, but to no avail.
Instead, the Democrat-led General Assembly and our Democrat governor used those surpluses to grow government, rebuffing repeated attempts by Republican members to cut the food tax, and the Democrats even raised taxes on cigarattes to allow even more spending. And, just as we conservatives predicted, when the lean economic times came, the state would find itself in a mess, just as we did during the ill-fated second term of turncoat, disgraced Governor Don Sundquist.
Second, socialists don’t feed people. Capitalists do. If you look at all the places where socialism has actually been implemented (the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, North Korea, Cuba), you will find that people commonly go hungry and lack other basic items and services that we in capitalist nations take for granted.
It amazes me how liberals, who demand strict separation of church and state for evangelicals, have no problem using God to justify their own political positions.
