Jon Stewart Interviews Bryan Stevenson On "Black Failure"

Alan: Byran Stevenson's book "Just Mercy" recalls Pope Francis' observation that 'mercy makes the world more just.'

Jon Stewart's Bryan Stevenson's Interview

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/d9wrvk/bryan-Stevenson

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"Bad Black People."
Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/bad-black-people-why-bill-oreilly-is.html

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"Pope Francis Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html

"A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just."

Pope Francis

Alan: It is -- specifically -- mercy that American conservatives oppose.

These rigid, brittle people want vindictiveness, retaliation and punishment.

They want "the undeserving poor" to suffer and they want it "with a vengeance."

In the main, American conservatives oppose mercy, compassion and forgiveness.

These "conservative" "Christians" would be much more at home in The Old Testament than The New, and have precious little in common with the way Yeshua lived his life.

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Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html

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The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see  that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-hard-central-fact-of-contemporary.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this. 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/obamacare-and-hard-central-fact-of.html

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"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html