i don t know how to begin except to tell you it s not only in reference to christianity, but i don t think there s a religion on the planet that would do what would be considered the gospel according to what, bill o reilly? the dwos pell means good news. good news for the rich, bad news for the poor. one of the things that kind of got me is he went way out there last night. he repeated another right wing smear against the poor. listen to this. some of the people who don t have enough to eat, it s their fault they don t have enough to eat. you re asking people who may be struggling themselves to put food on the table to give their tax money to you, and then you re not even going to buy food with it. you re going to buy booze and drugs with it. first of all, i know he has to know better, because he s hipped us with action network feed the poor on christmastime.
it doesn t matter what religion, that s what you do. and the idea that this is somehow wrong or that jesus would not be doing this. i think bill o reilly should read four books over the holiday, matthew, mark, luke, and john. it s a lot of this kind of feeling in the name of religion, in the name of christianity and other religions, but the truth about food stamps, joe, is 87% of food stamp households have children, disabled, or elderly. are these the people that right-wingers are accusing of buying booze and drugs? well, absolutely not, you know, this is what s so ridiculous about it. and your statistics speak to it over and over and over again, reverend. i mean, the reality is this. no human being on the planet deliberately starves themselves to death.
christmas, right-wingers are now declaring that it s unchristian to take care of the poor. claiming that jesus would not support programs like food stamps. here s bill o reilly last night. the nanny state versus christianity. you re helping one group by hurting another group. and a bigger group. and so i don t know if jesus is going to be down with that. jesus wouldn t be down with helping the poor? there s nothing in the bible to back that up. but to make his case, o reilly rolled some tape of jesus himself. look, there it is. well, gosh, if o reilly is running tape of an actor playing jesus, then i guess his argument must be right, right? wrong. le here are some real quotes from the real jesus.