{"id":4382,"date":"2015-11-23T00:21:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2018-02-15T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:02:17","slug":"do-unto-your-brother-but-only-if-hes-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4382","title":{"rendered":"Do Unto Your Brother; But Only If He&#8217;s Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news lately in the wake of the Paris terrorists&#8217; attack last week is what to do with the Syrian refugees. Many Americans are against letting them into the country at all, while others are demanding stricter standards for allowing them into the country. While we think sending troops to Syria is a knee jerk reaction, we\u00a0 think stricter vetting of the refugees isn&#8217;t such a bad idea. We should use the same solid background checks that we use for any American who wants to purchase a gun. What could possibly go wrong with that plan? (Side note:Ms. Ubetcha, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/11\/20\/1452110\/-Sarah-Palin-Jesus-would-fight-for-our-Second-Amendment\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin, recently piped up and said Jesus would have loved guns.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>We also find it a bit odd that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2015\/11\/republicans_don_t_want_syrian_muslims_in_america_gop_leaders_can_only_agree.html\" target=\"_blank\">the most christian of the christians of the Republican candidates are saying that only christian refugees should be allowed into the country<\/a>. Hmmmm&#8230;what would Capitalist Jesus have to say about that?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4384\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capitalistjesuslovesgunshatesrefugees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capitalistjesuslovesgunshatesrefugees.jpg\" alt=\"Capitalist Jesus, who is also very Republican, confesses his love for guns and suggests to use them on Syrian refugees because Christians rule.\" width=\"395\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capitalistjesuslovesgunshatesrefugees.jpg 395w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capitalistjesuslovesgunshatesrefugees-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 85vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitalist Jesus, who is also very Republican, confesses his love for guns and suggests a use for them to his gun loving Christian followers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news lately in the wake of the Paris terrorists&#8217; attack last week is what to do with the Syrian refugees. Many Americans are against letting them into the country at all, while others are demanding stricter standards for allowing them into the country. While we think sending troops to Syria is a knee &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do Unto Your Brother; But Only If He&#8217;s Christian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[995,61,8,68,1687,3,198],"tags":[74,73,252,69,22,20,389,27,9,537,75,21,231,98,596,1213,188,19,680,47,48,946,522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4387,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}