Very Sane Montana Republican Will Let You Retire At 600, Maybe

In Montanastan, there’s this rich techie guy, Greg Gianforte, a Republican who’s giving some thought to running for governor in 2016, just like every other successful business guy who’s ever thought that running a state is exactly like running a tech company. He’s very big on evangelical Christianity, and thinks that people ought to live their faith — like maybe never retiring, because there’s no such thing as retirement in the Bible. Just how literally he wants people to take that is open to question.

Mr. Gianforte first came to Yr. Wonkette’s attention last year when the billionaire creationist gave the commencement address at Montana’s top science and technology school, Montana Tech — because if there’s anything a bunch of mining engineers need to know, it’s that the Earth is 6000 years old.

HuffPo found some nifty audio of a talk Gianforte gave in February at Montana Bible College about why God wants us to work. Forever. Most of it is the usual Protestant Work Ethic stuff about honoring God through work, with an interesting digression about how work itself is not the result of the Fall; rather, work just got a lot harder because God cursed the ground, making it a lot harder to scratch a living out of it. Thanks a lot, Adam. And then there’s this interesting point about retirement, which Gianforte apparently has issues with:

“There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it’s been an accepted concept in our culture today,” he said. “Nowhere does it say, ‘Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach.’ It doesn’t say that anywhere.”

“The example I think of is Noah,” he continued. “How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn’t like, cashing Social Security checks, he wasn’t hanging out, he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.”




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