It's easy to resolve this discrepancy when you realize these people are not actually liberal or progressive.
Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
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Re: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
#12It's easy to resolve this discrepancy when you realize these people are not actually liberal or progressive.
Regressive Left.
Re: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
#13People should just move out of the area and find a better for themselves. Whining has never solved anything for anyone, and, when successful, end up in "socialist" revolutions that turn the country into a shithole. (Venezuelan here, and I don't like Trump, by the way)
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#14Large SV companies have nowadays become cash-making media machines of a gargantuan scale, acquiring that cash from all over the world for a service of questionable value, and investing it back in a relatively small area while providing only a few tens of thousands of jobs there. This distribution of capital creates a huge imbalance, no matter how "liberal" the stakeholders are.
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#15I'm saddened that he felt compelled to resign. The Gospel advocates poverty, whether you take that in the literal sense or whether you take it to mean humility, I imagine the stark divide visible in SV would probably be pretty hard to understand.
You'd rather say the Church advocates the responsible use of wealth.
Re: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
#16Large SV companies have nowadays become cash-making media machines of a gargantuan scale, acquiring that cash from all over the world for a service of questionable value, and investing it back in a relatively small area while providing only a few tens of thousands of jobs there. This distribution of capital creates a huge imbalance, no matter how "liberal" the stakeholders are.
My sense from reading was that he was upset by what he perceived to be hypocrisy on the part of the wealthy. In that they talked the talk about charity and making the world better, but their actions spoke differently. So liberal words, liberal values being expressed, but pure greed when it mattered.
Re: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
#17Good for him. Thankfully I'll be living in placid Seattle where the kind liberals are, surrounded by beautiful nature and a society grounded in a cannabis induced peace.
Re: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
#18I'm saddened that he felt compelled to resign. The Gospel advocates poverty, whether you take that in the literal sense or whether you take it to mean humility, I imagine the stark divide visible in SV would probably be pretty hard to understand.
You'd rather say the Church advocates the responsible use of wealth.
Not quite. I don't know what the church is nor can I speak about it's motivation. I'm speaking about the gospel. Matthew 19:23 specifically:
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
It's a rare thing for Jesus to make a pronouncement like that in the text. Which leads me to believe it's an important part of his teaching.
Re: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
#19It's easy to resolve this discrepancy when you realize these people are not actually liberal or progressive.
No True Scotsman fallacy?
I personally give the respect to people to refer them as they would like to be identified. If a Muslim jihadi says he is a jihadi, I respect his self identification and call him that. Similarly, I respect these people's self identification as liberal or progressive.
Re: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
#20It's easy to resolve this discrepancy when you realize these people are not actually liberal or progressive.
No True Scotsman fallacy? I personally give the respect to people to refer them as they would like to be identified. If a Muslim jihadi says he is a jihadi, I respect his self identification and call him that. Similarly, I respect these people's self identification as liberal or progressive.
Claiming someone's actions don't line up with their words is not a no-true-Scotsman scenario.
I think he's simply alleging that their revealed preferences do not line up with their stated preferences.