Interfaith Leaders of Detroit learn to play Grand Theft Auto
ByThey seem so happy playing their little game, don’t they?
Interfaith leaders lobby for auto aid | The Detroit News | detnews.com
Responding to concerns from their followers, a dozen interfaith leaders from across Metro Detroit announced Thursday they will conduct national lobbying to urge members of Congress to back loans for Detroit’s Big Three auto manufacturers and set up an information network about the social services they provide.
“Some of us have larger, national denominations and we can contact those members of Congress who are straddling the fence,” said Bishop Charles Ellis of Greater Grace Temple in Detroit.
“We can use our constituents in those communities to influence those people.”
Read: swindle.
This is just sickening. That Christian leaders would advocate wholesale theft from the American people to save businesses that were so poorly managed and, moreover, driven into the ground by the unions (with whom many of these clergyman’s laity gladly place their support) is absolutely monstrous.
The Bible says it very succinctly: Thou shalt not steal. Nevertheless, people around the country think that when the government does it – no matter what – it isn’t really stealing. Why do I say no matter what? Because they continually allow it. They continue to elect these fools, they continue to allow them free reign, they continue to rent seek from these supposed “benefactors”, they continue their lethargy.
Economically, a bailout is preposterous. Ethically, it is unjustified. Morally, it is heinous. Practically, it is disastrous!
Some preachers complain that the Grand Theft Auto video games are negatively affecting kids, while ignoring the Grand Theft Auto (and other grandiose thefts in the last few months) taking place right in front of their eyes. What foolishness!
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This is sad indeed. I recall your posting of Twain’s War Prayer. It seems someone should compose a corresponding Economic Prayer, in which it is made clear that every dollar given to the failed auto industry is a diminishment of the opportunities of others and teh robbing of the poor whose skill sets better serve the profitable industries that would replace the bankrupt (morally and financially) American auto industry.
That’s an interesting idea. Hmm, maybe a revamped “prayer of Jabez”?
The idea could be accomplished somewhat easily, I think. The trouble is, in order to be even close to as dramatic as the war prayer, you would almost certainly be accused of tremendous hyperbole. And if the drama doesn’t come close to the war prayer, people will just shrug and say, what’s the point?
Anyway, that’s the initial danger, but I think cleverly drafted, one could get around this.