Are the 'woke' the new Pharisees?

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    The Pharisees were the virtue signalers of their day. The Woke crowd are in effect the Pharisees of our day. They like to be regarded as the compassionate ones, without any of the inconvenience actual compassion requires…

    …In our day, we are seeing no end of hypocrisy. As one critic noted: “Over 4.9 million illegals entered the United States during Joe Biden’s first 18 months in office via the open southern U.S. border. But send 50 illegal immigrants to an exclusive liberal enclave? That is a humanitarian crisis!”

    At the very least the ritzy hotspot for the left should tear down that “I’m for sharing”-type sign, welcoming all. It’s just their Pharisaical way of saying they care, when they apparently don’t.

    If Biden closed the border, this would not be happening. As DeSantis noted,

    At the end of the day, this is a massive policy failure by the president. A massive and intentional policy that is causing a huge amount of damage all across the country, and it is all rooted in a failure to take care that the laws are faithfully executed and to fulfill his oath of office.

    Hypocrisy, thy name is Woke.








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    The answer is yes. Yes they are! There are none who excel at hypocrisy now more than the bi coastal secular progressive elites do. Their sanctuary cities are a joke, a fraud. A ridiculous symbolic gesture with no meaning.
     
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    The double standards of the woke cancel culture secular elites know no bounds. Double standards and hypocrisy are the only standards they have. Rules for us but not for them is the creed they live by.
     
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    They are the “do as we say, not as we do” crowd.
     
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    the evangelical preachers, the mega church pastors are the crew jesus would condemn and disown, IMO they have strayed very far from jesus teachings as to be unrecognizable
     
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    Actually, that would be the progressive theology Christian Left that has done as you describe. Your transference is noted.
     
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    i disagree
     
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    @XXJefferson#51

    america's televangelists are the pharasees, those who espouse the "prosperity gospel" are the money changers. those who deny the socialist essence of christianity are anti christ.

    43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. 44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common; 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

    acts 2: 43 -45
     
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    If I recall, you were the one that claimed Abraham was involved in that whole Sodom & Gomorrah story, so call me very skeptical about any authority you have of labeling any other Christian group. You barely know the Bible outside of your own closed-minded theology.
     
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    in @XXJefferson#51 's defense. when i throw my rather vast scriptural knowledge at him he usually disappears.

    here is one from shakespeare (the only author quoted in bartlett more than the king james bible) . guess the play?

    "But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil"
     
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    Feel free. It’s a free country for now. Not sure how long it will remain so under the current regime though
     
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    Genesis 18:16-33
    New International Version

    Abraham Pleads for Sodom
    16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.17 Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

    20 Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21 that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

    22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

    26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

    27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”

    “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

    29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”

    He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

    30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry,but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”

    He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

    31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”

    He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”

    32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”

    He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

    33 When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.

    Read full chapter



     
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    What's ironic about the word 'woke' is the left used to as an attempt to criticize or humiliate people into going all in on social justice, but the word got turned around on them. Now anything that's woke is considered to be far left insanity and craziness and they actually acknowledge it. When we say something is woke who on the planet doesn't think of the left? Once the word backfired on them AOC went into full damage control and said it's a term mostly used by old white men.
     
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    Social media has created a world where all that matters is appearance, and where you can get power by baselessly slandering others.
     
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    Ezekiel 16:49-50
    New International Version

    49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

    The GQP are today's Sodomites. Suck on it... NsphD.gif
     
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    wokism has gone too far and the maga on the right have gone too far as well.....

    we need to get rid of the extremes from both parties
     
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    Ditto for the extreme maga right
     
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    Agreed.
    Pendulums always swing to the extreme ends, but luckily, they eventually wind up succumbing to the realities of gravity and settle more to the middle.

    We really, really, need a viable centrist party in the middle - the two parties we have are so dysfunctional that they have become worthless.
     
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    Any politician or any self-proclaimed a**hole of the month using the word "woke" in their campaign literature or message is unworthy of anyone's vote. I have never seen such utter bullsh*t as what is coming out of the GOP. They're floundering and, what should have been a given, is now in serious doubt. Stupid assh*les....
     
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    I suppose I think of them more as Philistines. In the biblical sense and in the colloquial sense as the colloquial is strongly linked to the biblical.

    They're in different unknowing or hostile to cultures other than their own the funny thing is they accuse everyone else of that.
     
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    I wish we could, but the country is divided and any 3rd party would steal votes from one party or the others, so we're stuck, each party just needs to stop voting for extremes
     
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    This does not bode well for the military:
     
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    The Sodom & Gomorrah story centers around Lot, and it begins in Chapter 19.
     
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    Progressive Puritans.
     
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    And the detestable things were the abominations before God that sodomy is.
     
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    God dealt them. Something tells me that He would do the same to the "evangelicals" in 'Murica who are currently emulating the Taliban... NsphD.gif
     
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