Strange as it may seem, I’ve been reading a lot of the Bible recently. New Testament only, I’m intrigued by the “new promise.”

One of the reasons that I find the Gospels so compelling is that Jesus sounds (please don’t take this as blasphemous) like the most crazed progressive in history! Combine Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and literally anyone else, and you’re not even a quarter of the way to the wonderfully progressive Jesus Christ of the Gospels.

The way that people have perverted the story is another topic altogether. Indeed it’s covered below.

“Church rules?” That’s a different thing altogether, no matter what church.

But if you actually read what Jesus said and interpret it yourself…

Some people have managed to twist Jesus’s words to match their message, which boils down to little more than fck the poors. Like this guy, Jason Mattera (God, same initials, even), from Liberty University, who says:

Christians are supposed to be at the tip of the spear in alleviating poverty, especially when it comes to other believers. That doesn’t mean, however, that we are under any obligation to help indolent bums.  Such people are not entitled to our generosity. They have chosen the path of poverty.”

STFU. I don’t know anyone who has “chosen” the path of poverty. Some people don’t have the tools that society requires to gain wealth. Some are born into poverty and have to work their way out just to barely reach the middle class. And some are afflicted with addiction, mental illness, and psychological conditions that are their own prison, hell on Earth –  more torturous to endure than the poverty itself.

Such people are not entitled to our generosity. They have chosen the path of poverty, to paraphrase Proverbs 10:4. There is another reason, though, why Christians should promote a culture of work: Work is central to man’s makeup.

Christians, then, should be vocal proponents of fostering a culture of work in civil society. Not only are we charged biblically to “earn our own living,” as Paul put it, but the ritual of work is the method by which God intended for us to cultivate His creation. It’s part of our DNA.

Today’s leftists, on other hand, are fundamentally opposed to fostering a culture of work. Instead, politicians like Elizabeth Warren and AOC are zealously engineering a culture of dependency where citizens are rewarded with government cash for sitting around on their duffs.

Yes, well – I have read my Mathew, Mark, and Luke (John is out there a bit, a different approach), and as near as I can tell, all would join me in saying, “Please to be fcking off now.”

Actually, John wouldn’t say “please.”

Before you ask, this piece published by Liberty University's Standing For Freedom Center is *not* satire. https://t.co/9PCLSNOB2l pic.twitter.com/lUmZLoKdCb

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 2, 2023