AUTHOR: John TITLE: billie holiday was right DATE: 1/14/2010 07:54:00 AM ----- BODY:

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Above the fold in the Wall Street Journal today: “Haiti Despairs as Quake Deaths Mount” and “Panel Rips Wall Street Titans.” The dirt poor and the filthy rich. Billie Holiday, “God Bless The Child”: Them that’s got shall get Them that’s not shall lose So the Bible says And it still is news. Luke 8.18 “... for to those who have , more will be given; and from those who do not have, even what they seem to have will be taken away.” Next time someone tells me they’re sure of God’s plan, or that they know what God thinks, I’m going to pull out this picture.

Labels: bible, greed, theodicy

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