Biblical Principles? Don't spend all the money?!?

Slavery is OK with the bible, you dumbass!

Jebus would smack the smug off this twisted pricks face.

Holy crap, he is trying to channel Reagan! The folksy, the positive message, the smile.... the words are more evangelical -- everything else is Reagan.

Creeps me out.

They keep playing a dangerous game. The more they keep trying to say that it's God's will that bad shit is happening to us, the more they risk people saying, "You know what? Fuck God!"

You want an example? See the Westboro Baptist Church. Every one of those crazy little sects act like they know what God wants but even Fox news backs away from that kind of crazy.

It baffles me how the republican party has become the party of choice for Christians since their actions are the opposite of what Jesus preaches.

Was 9/11 for a biblical reason? Was Hiroshima for a biblical reason? Was the Holocaust for a biblical reason? Was Kirk Cameron for a biblical reason?

Please tell me that this guy is too religious even for Americans.

Off a bridge, please.

He says "it's slavery, we become slaves to government." As opposed to what, slavery to a God? Feel free to be a slave to your God if you choose to, but allow the rest of us who are rational, free thinking, truth seeking individuals, to get on with REAL life.

let's give him nuclear weapons!

God must be Chinese.

Ha, upvote for inaccurate video titles that everyone loves.

Lol, @KnivesOut inaccurately reports Perry's statements (you're right, that'd be so terrible if we had fiscal accountability!), then downvotes discussion.

I downvote disingenuous comments.>> ^chilaxe:

Lol, @KnivesOut inaccurately reports Perry's statements (you're right, that'd be so terrible if we had fiscal accountability!), then downvotes discussion.

Bring us back to the biblical principals that the founding fathers went out of their way to repeatedly say were NOT the basis for our governmental system or our country? You can't go back to somewhere you haven't been.
Responsible budgeting isn't a religious or biblical principal, it's an economic one, dumbass.
This is what you get from Texas schooling, no idea whatsoever of the reality of your own history, or even the reality of your own present. He makes me incredibly grateful I got out of Texas, and frightened that such a large portion of our populace thinks he's leadership material. Even if he's unelectable, that really says something horrendous about us as a nation.

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let's give him nuclear weapons!


I think he'd prefer nucular weapons instead.

God helps those who balance their own budgets.

An informative news piece at NPR about Rick Perry's particular Christian Evangelical backers, the New Apostolic Reformation:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare

tl;dr - they believe the world's institutions must be made Christian so that Jesus will return.

Perry may be full of poop, but at the moment he's not in charge.

The Golfer-in-Chief doesn't seem too concerned about the economy, high unemployment or rabid, rampant spending. Nor does Moochelle with her endless taxpayer-funded vacations.

Biblical Principles. Assuming he believes that the new testament over-rides the old...

- Non violence. Turn the other cheek. Die if you have to for your cause; Jesus did. Violence is unacceptable under all conditions, including self-defence.
- Care for the poor. New testament is chock full of 'welfare state' kind of stuff.
- Throw out the interest chargers and money changers and the lenders, etc. (banks, etc.)
- Love your neighbour, period. Doesn't matter what religion they are.

I could go on. I look forward to him abiding to these principles.

Quite true. The NT Jeebs is quite the socialist, except when it comes to the spiritual realm, then he's plain ol' tyrannical.

>> ^pmkierst:

Biblical Principles. Assuming he believes that the new testament over-rides the old...
- Non violence. Turn the other cheek. Die if you have to for your cause; Jesus did. Violence is unacceptable under all conditions, including self-defence.
- Care for the poor. New testament is chock full of 'welfare state' kind of stuff.
- Throw out the interest chargers and money changers and the lenders, etc. (banks, etc.)
- Love your neighbour, period. Doesn't matter what religion they are.
I could go on. I look forward to him abiding to these principles.

Why do people like this get to breathe our air? God's will is that America has an economic crisis? Please someone point this cross dragging idiot to some real data on exactly how greed and corporate exploitation of the lower financial classes caused this crisis.

I bet this guy has a lot of skeletons in his closet.