Christians Skew Biblical Verses To Make Invalid Points

This is a pic that a Christian conservative friend placed on my Facebook Timeline this past week.  He knows I have a good understanding of scripture and he also knows that I'm a Libertarian.  I think he wanted to provoke some kind of response from me...  Well, I reposted it for all my friends to see and thought I should also share with you...

Take a good look at this and think about it... This is what is known as ambiguous association of two different pieces of subject matter that ARE NOT relevant to one another...

The Bible verse being quoted, is a good one. It talks about taking action, hence most people during the time that the scripture was written, took action using their right hands (left handed people were sometimes accused of being heretics or maligned in some kind of way, considered unnatural or passive)...

But the terms Left Wing and Right Wing actual stem from a time during the French Revolution. You had the liberators (i.e. the common folk) who chose to sit on the left hand side of the assembly hall) and you had the Nobility (or the Establishment) who sat on the right side of the assembly hall. The President over the General Assembly sat at the center. They way the seats were positioned in the hall made them appear to be wings that fanned out from the Center seat.

So respect the verse in the Bible. Don't take it out of context to try to justify a holier than though attitude over those with an opposing politicial ideology. It's smacks of self righteousness. I do not mean to offend anyone, but in truth, to say that your party is back by God when both parties in the US pass so many laws together that GO AGAINST GOD, is hypocritical...

That being said, I'm a Libertarian... I believe in a smaller government as ordained by the founders of our Country through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights... That makes me "right winged", or ultra Conservative on MANY of our nations issues...

But I'm not holier than you because I'm ultra Conservative. I believe in Freedom and Liberty... More importantly, I believe in Truth, not deception of self indulgence through ambiguous association.... 

NOW....

Let me add something to what I didn't on FB.  We could also apply this to left handed and right handed people.  However, a person who is left handed has been scientifically proven to use their right side of the brains and right handed people (over 90% of the population) use the left side of their brains...

I can make an ambiguous association with this bible verse and state that Left handed people follow God's path and all right handed people are fools...  Why, because "heart" as used in this verse means conscience, which scientifically is stored in the brain, not the organ that pumps blood through your body....


But then again, is calling someone a fool really an insult?  I mean, the Bible does state that you should never call someone a fool (Matthew 5:22).  But another old term for fool was "jester", or court entertainers...  Successful "fools" were the most entertaining ones that successfully garnished admiration from Monarchs and Nobility alike through wit, displays of amazing dexterity (like juggling) and satire...  Entertainers, who were some of the most craftiest people of the land...

So don't be foolish and pretend to be witty and make Biblical references to things that are not relevant to history.  We know the history of where the terms left wing and right wing came from and it is heavily documented...