Are we all "equal"?

[s@ul77]

Re: Are we all "equal"?

Job 34:19: Yet He is not partial to princes, Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; For they are all the work of His hands.

[Miss Maisie]

Re: Are we all "equal"?

We are all born equal, the steps we take in life determine the rungs we rest on in life and death.

That ain't so in the eyes of God. Look at the children of bastards. They are all doomed unto the ninth generation. Fortunately for the rest of us, we ain't all in that situation, are we? Therefore that can hardly be being 'born equal'.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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Sister Jenny, I believe that is exactly what Meat Sandwich is saying.

There is no longer a need for "advanced placement" curricula in our schools, as we are all "equal".

There's no need for a "remedial" curriculum, either.

You see, we just need to dumb everything down until everyone -- including the retarded, spastic window-lickers like "Sand-Witch" -- understands.

Anyone caught attempting to surpass the average must be restrained; if someone is allowed to excel, it might damage the self-esteem of one of those who chooses not to excel in the same way. This is bad, very bad. For if we do not all feel good about ourselves by pulling all others down to the same level, we cannot truly function as a cohesive and egalitarian society.

It might make one of the window-lickers feel bad, say, if a so-called "smart" child got a merit scholarship to Landover Baptist University while the window-licker had his application rejected. Therefore, all scholarships should be awarded based upon a lottery system, as should applications to universities.

Rather than the "smart" kids going to the "good" schools, a random selection will ensure that every school has a fair and equal distribution of all types of students. An identical hiring process for teachers will distribute teachers equally among schools. Thus, no school will be "better" than another, and no school will be "worse". They will all be perfectly average in all ways.

What of those who try to show themselves superior? What of the show-offs, like that medal-winning Phelps fellow?

Well, we can take care of them, don't you worry.

Anyone found to be "showing off", whether in sports, or education, or business, or creativity, must be sent to re-education facilities. This is evidence of a runaway ego, and MUST be controlled. Showing off is not permitted, as it encourages others to either attempt to emulate the behavior, or to feel bad about themselves for not choosing actions which will attract such attention to themselves.

[JennyD]

Re: Are we all "equal"?

We are all born equal, the steps we take in life determine the rungs we rest on in life and death.

What an odd belief you have, Sandy. May I call you Sandy? "Meat" just seems . . . inappropriate.

So, you're saying that a retard baby (IQ below 80, let's say) whose mother drank herself silly daily during pregnancy is equal to, say, a True Christian(tm) woman's baby, with an IQ of at least 120 (100 is "average")? They are interchangeable, and their futures depend entirely upon their own choices?

Is that <snort> what you're saying?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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We are all born equal, the steps we take in life determine the rungs we rest on in life and death.

Most interesting… I am imagining a newly born child, only seconds old. I cast my view to the parents. They are Unsaved Trash...

I refer myself to Jer:13:23: Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

So the equality of birth lasts all of 2 seconds, after that your lot in life is cast. I think that Miss Cecil Frances Alexander had it about right with that lovely hymn, “All Things Bright and Beautiful” in which, the second verse is,

“The rich man in his castle,
the poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
and ordered their estate.”

[Meat Sandwich]

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We are all born equal, the steps we take in life determine the rungs we rest on in life and death.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Citing the Declaration of Independence instead of the Holy King James Bible just shows how lost in error they are. The statement that you've quoted presupposes the god of 18th-century Deism, not the God of the Bible. The Biblically correct view is that God gives us no unalienable rights:

Job 9:12: “Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?”

Even if we did have unalienable rights, any Biblically literate person could tell you that they don’t include life (James 4:14), liberty (I Peter 2:18), or the pursuit of happiness (Eccl. 4:1-2).

[Roberta]

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I recently posted this in another thread:

More importantly, many of the Southern gentleman like our esteemed Thomas Jefferson chose to bless their chattel with mulatto offspring. This not only greatly improved their appearance but contributed to intelligence quotient, too.

William Jefferson Clinton is a testament to this. A descendant of the Jefferson-Hemings miscegeny, he went on to become a Rhodesian Scholar.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Many Unsaved Trash join this Godly forum and begin spouting off nonsense about how everyone is "equal"; retards, Wiccans, Negroes, Islamofascists, women, sodomites, etc. are all described as "equal" to Saved© True Christians™!

They often cite as evidence the Declaration of Independence, which says in part:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Unsaved Trash then claim that it is "un-American" to say that some types of people are inferior to Saved© True Christians™.

For a first volley, let me point out that many of the authors of the Declaration of Independence were slaveowners, and beat their wives. Therefore, they did not consider Negroes to be "men", since clearly one cannot keep a slave if one considers him one's equal. They also did not consider women equal to men; in fact, they didn't even allow them to vote or own property!

Your turn, Unsaved Trash.