VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Dinah|DATE|1383861136|CONTENT|So the Bible supports the Living Wage.  Just as it supports freedom of conscience, gay rights, disability rights, equality of women, anti-racism, anti-slavery, democracy – you name it, it’s up there.  It’s a remarkable coincidence that whenever some cause concerning social justice becomes fashionable, Christians inform us it’s been there in the Bible all along, and if only anyone had bothered to listen to them, we could have had this or that enlightened policy hundreds of years ago.  How strange then that in the days when Christianity was so much more powerful than it is now, most working people laboured for long hours in terrible conditions for a pittance, there was religious intolerance, persecution of homosexuals, discrimination against disabled people, the oppression of women, racism, a slave trade and theocratic monarchies.  |IP-ADDRESS|79.71.112.33|MODERATIONFLAG|