"Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds."

I Caucused for Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition in Austin in '84... and was very happy to do so.

He wasn't going to win, but he was going to push for needed change.

RIP

- Funny: 1

The good Rev was running to win the Dem primary for Pres, and came in a respectable 3rd to Hart and Mondale.

Stein was running as a Spoiler to raise money for the Green Party.

"Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed away on February 17, 2026, viewed the modern Democratic Party as the fulfillment of his lifelong work to build a "Rainbow Coalition".

He generally saw today's party not as an entity he belonged to, but as one he remade through his historic 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.

Key aspects of his perspective on the contemporary party included:"

Yeshua set up a commune where his followers shared food, lodging, and expenses.

He had two rules, as James Talafino likes to point out... he said this when a lawyer asked him the question; these are know as the Two Commandments:

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment.

And the second is like unto it, You shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." "Matthew 22:37"39

He went on to explain who your neighbor is... everyone else.

#27

Same tired old Rwing nonsense... we are a "Christian Nation", until it comes to acting like one.

There is no admonition anywhere in scripture against a gov of by and for the People NOT TO POOL THEIR MONEY to help one another... and we do it in all sorts of ways from highways to schools to Police Fire and EMT plus dozens of others.

Other Christian and non-Christian nations actually do a lot more than we do with Education and Health Care, among other things.

The early Church often lived together, ate together and, shared expenses together just as Yeshua and the Disciples did.

- many Democrats push for a permanent lifestyle of government aid

Same BS, different words. You have a bad case of Reaganism.

#28

Lying about me and or God just to try to keep your taxes low is pretty low itself.

You've fallen for every ignorant rwing canard that's ever been thrown out there for you to swallow.

#31

I'm sorry you aren't smart enough to follow this conversation, truly I am.

One supposes that when you ditched Dems for Reagan, it was whole heartedly, because you vomit up all their old self-serving sayings like a sick dog.

Next you'll be talking about all those 'Black Welfare Queens Driving Cadillacs".... who turned out to be mostly poor white women with chidren.

#34

Yes... but is he good in bed?

His wife?

Asking for Visitor.

"The poor will always be with you" (Matthew 26:11) is a biblical phrase frequently misinterpreted as a justification for inaction or resignation toward poverty.

In context, Jesus was likely quoting Deuteronomy 15:11, reminding his followers of their ongoing,, duty to care for the needy, rather than condoning poverty.

Key Contextual Interpretations:
A Call to Action: It is not a fatalistic statement but a command for continuous, and, consistent generosity.

The Context of Giving:
Jesus made this statement while defending a woman who anointed him with expensive oil, arguing that loving acts toward him and the poor can coexist, rather than dismissing care for the poor.

A Reminder of Human Failure:
The phrase highlights that poverty exists due to a failure to follow God's law of community care, making it a rebuke against hardheartedness, rather than a prediction of unavoidable suffering.

Solidarity with the Poor:
Jesus often identified himself with the poor; therefore, this statement is meant to remind followers that serving the poor is a way to serve him.

Ultimately, the phrase is a challenge to open one's hand to those in need at all times, rather than a justification for neglecting them."

- secular "do good" philosophy.

Dragging Yeshua's message, the meaning of which is the opposite as documented in #9, of your rwing nonsense, isn't a good look, BJ.

- secular do good moral philosophy

In Western Culture is basically the result of centuries of, "Christian weathering", resulting in some atheists who follow Yeshua's well recognized good moral philosophy better than do most white nationalist 'Christians'... apparently including the former gay Democrat ones.

#43 |

Well, I have an advantage, BJ... I can read, and I understand what I read, especially when I've seen it from the same rwing white nationalist Trump diddling source for literally years.

The analysis in #39 as to Yeshua's meaning and intent is theologically and doctrinally sound.

And it wasn't to give tax cuts to billionaires on the backs of the poor, downtrodden, and immigrant... all of which he also said that when we, individually or as a group; a church or a country, showed love and compassion for others... we also did those things for him.

Your lame Reaganisms notwithstanding.

#48

Thanks for posting that, Laura... most rwingers here prolly 'think' over half of women get abortions... 90 percent of Dems, lol.

Facts like that almost all a abortions for a long time have been done sooner than the 15 weeks the GOP settled on for a proposed law... they were already 93 percent at 13 weeks or less.

Trumpers don't care about facts and figures, though; they've got their self sanctimonious hate and Trump's lies to keep them warm.

BJ hits the Abortion! button... can the Trans! button and the Immigrants Eating Cats! buttons be far behind?

These are Fringe Issues that rwing politicians and their patsies use to divide us; Trans are less than 2 percent of the population, women have abortions 93 percent of the time at 13 weeks or less...

... and immigrants, especially undocumented ones, are less likely to commit crimes, especially violent crimes. than are US citizens per capita.

These are LIES meant to divide us, nothing more.

Sychopant and Laura,

this is a highly intellectual, but very interesting and fast moving conversation on the clash of Christianity with the totally different Greco-Roman World by two top authors/scholars

the worldviews of the warlike slaveholders and the passionate peaceniks clashing

NT Wright & Tom Holland How St Paul changed the world (Full Show)

IF these clowns can't divert a thread to Abortion, Trans, or Immigrants.... they'll just go away.

They are only interested in spouting the divisive politics that their criminal traitor racist rapist in the WH tells them to spout.

#87

Thank God!

Meanwhile, Rev Jackson is still dead.

I checked.

Even being in the same room at the Caucus with him was a thrill for me; he and Ali were two of my heroes. My first college literature assignment was to write about modern Heroes... of which there felt like few, and mine was on Ali.

Also was in the same small venue bar in downtown Austin with SRV that year!