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peabody

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2. A Sunday school teacher

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 02:06 PM

Jun 2015

used a similar line of reasoning with me when I was back in high school. She used the Eagles song "Take it Easy" and told us that Jesus never said to take it easy. As I grew out of Christianity (and I'm so glad I did), I realized that that was just a bad, very bad, idea she was trying to teach us. We only have one life. Work when you have to; and when you don't, enjoy life and by all means take it easy otherwise you'll just breakdown. Gianforte's reference to Noah is even more dumb. Noah was probably a fictional character so to compare what a fictional character can do to what a real person is capable of is just bad reasoning.

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Montana Republican cites Noah of the Bible as argument against Social Security [View all] RandySF Jun 2015 OP

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