Bill O'Reilly himself said that being a liberal means using government programs to "level the playing field." WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?!? Who doesn't want a level playing field? And why not?
This is the definition of a paradox.
The Israelites out of Egypt received the ultimate affirmative action! They were allowed to pillage the government and take whatever they wanted! For 400 years of oppression and horror they got more than a level playing field. God Himself was their constant defense and provision. He had to MAKE Pharaoh do what he had consistently shown he would never do on his own.
How about this; Jesus, the King of Kings, (Isaiah, 9:6!) embodied affirmative action for us all! We who were lost at the starting gate (Adam), and losing the race from that day till Zero A.D. were allowed to catch up because of a Supernatural quota system that took a "Chosen People" and moved them to the front of the line of eternity.
We elect, who are just as wretched as anyone else, will be separated from those who have ephemerally reveled in the wealth of excess and given that which we did not toil to get. All based on the recognition that without a Hand UP we could never, ever get what we should have had because sin would never of its own will give up its advantage.
This is the thing that makes me part ways with the conservative movement. The other stuff is cool, but a person who claims to be "Evangelical" yet ignores the obvious fact that some people have had the path swept clear for them while other people don't even have a butter knife to clear the jungle obscuring theirs leaves me skeptical.
Hey, I'm just saying... Since the Religious Right, Evangelicals, seem to be in a three-legged race with the Republican Party... It looks like there is a whole half of the Christian message that has been overlooked.
And don't blast me with a bunch of racist stuff! I just noticed the fact because I saw it in the actual BIBLE!
*No, I am not a liberal.
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