Faith means shit. It's all about the works, asshole. So shove the public praying and pick up a goddamn shovel and do something. And no, awarding no-bid contracts to buddies like Haliburton does not count as "doing something."
I read a book on the Reformation while at work this past summer. Believe it or not, but one of the...not tenets, but sorta like a tenet is that Protestants don't believe in doing good works. Or rather, that doing good works will get you into heaven, since a lot of it is simply faith and predestination. Doing good works with false intentions is kinda like trying to bribe God. Which obviously is not cool.
Or that's what I got out of it. Which was really interesting when I thought about it in light of the debates last year, where Catholic Kerry was all "faith without works is a dead faith" and Protestant Bush was kinda snickering.
Still, I find it hard to believe Senor Bush is above bribery.
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I read a book on the Reformation while at work this past summer. Believe it or not, but one of the...not tenets, but sorta like a tenet is that Protestants don't believe in doing good works. Or rather, that doing good works will get you into heaven, since a lot of it is simply faith and predestination. Doing good works with false intentions is kinda like trying to bribe God. Which obviously is not cool.
Or that's what I got out of it. Which was really interesting when I thought about it in light of the debates last year, where Catholic Kerry was all "faith without works is a dead faith" and Protestant Bush was kinda snickering.
Still, I find it hard to believe Senor Bush is above bribery.