Montana Republican: Christians have “an obligation to work” until they are hundreds of years old

[Liberal_in_LA]

Montana Republican: Noah Was 600 Years Old When He Built the Ark, So Why Do Americans Need Retirement

Greg Gianforte, aspiring Republican governor of Montana, urges college students to reject policy that favors savings plans and retirement options because, like Noah, Christians have “an obligation to work” until they are hundreds of years old, the Huffington Post reports.

Speaking at the Montana Bible College in February, Gianforte told students, “There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it’s been an accepted concept in our culture today. Nowhere does it say, ‘Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach.’ It doesn’t say that anywhere.”

“The example I think of is Noah,” Gianforte continued. “How old was Noah when he built the Ark? 600. He wasn’t like, cashing Social Security checks. He wasn’t hanging out; he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.”


Gianforte is a tech millionaire. He founded RightNow Technologies, and assumed a senior leadership position at Oracle in 2012 after the software giant bought him out. Lately, Gianforte has been touring the state promoting his “Bring Our Families Back” initiative, which aims to lure ex-pats back to Montana with the modern miracle of telecommuting.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/montana-republican-noah-was-600-years-old-when-he-built-ark-so-why-do-americans

[Journeyman]

1. If 'm gonna make it that long, I'm gonna need something better than Obamacare . . .

Glad to have you on board advocating for universal, single-payer coverage, Mr Gianforte. After all, the Bible only speaks of three score and ten, so to get us all up to those extra 530 years we're gonna have to have a vast improvement in God's plan. Hope you're up to it.

[onyourleft]

2. At what...

...jobs?

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Noah must have looked awful after

the flood was over and he got drunk and got nekkid. Imagine 600+ years of sagging skin. He must have looked like a hairless shar pei.

[bulloney]

4. Hey Mr. Giantfart (or whatever your name is), you don't really take the OT literally, do you?

The Bible, especially the Old Testament, doesn't talk about much of a lot of other things that exist today. Back in the days of the Old Testament, the average life expectancy was what--around 40 years, if that? Idiots like you who believe Noah and other Biblical characters lived several hundred years when there hasn't been another period of time when people live close to that lessens my faith in the intelligence of American businessmen.

[B Calm]

5. I think running around naked in the Garden of Eden sounds more like something I would rather do.

[Exilednight]

6. I'm a Buddhist; soooo I guess that remark doesn't apply to me.

[MisterP]

7. well, not this time around!

[ladyVet]

8. I'm not a Christian, so my ass is hitting the beach at 62!

That is, if the politicians don't sell out my SS.

[tanyev]

9. Do they also have an obligation to have multiple wives and own slaves?

Because....biblical.

[HughBeaumont]

10. Hey, let's apply mythology as a blueprint to 2015 economics!

You know, because that's what I look for in someone who will help shape America's economic future.

[hobbit709]

11. So why isn't he working instead of aspiring to get a cushy government job?