Posted on 10/08/2009 1:52:51 PM PDT by presidio9
Promoting Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore is beating the drum of his Catholicism in a way that he hasn't previously. Check out this clip from Moore's appearance last night on Sean Hannity's TV show.
When Hannity suggests possible political labels for Moore, the filmmaker responds: "Christian." Then Moore quizzes the Fox News host, a fellow Catholic, on the last time he's been to mass. Trying to out-church him, Moore implies that Hannity is fibbing about having attended mass last weekend.
It's no accident that Moore's new openness about his religious faith is coming now, after the Democratic Party has spent five years urging its members to speak up about their faith to combat the conventional wisdom that the GOP is more religion-friendly. That campaign has spilled over to the broader liberal movement in a big way. But if Moore, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi are all spokespeople for the left's faith-friendliness, where's the national leader of the left's fast-growing secular wing?
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Getting all ‘churchy’ is the latest facade. Notice all the libtards quoting scripture before Zero’s elections? Sarandon’s “Jesus was a community organizer” crap, etc., etc.
Sorry. I’m not going to watch. Michael Moore is a buffoon, and Hannity turns himself into one too by giving Moore a platform.
Yeah Michael Moore is about as Christian as Barack Obama. Always good to label your brand of leftist crap with a theological label
Michael Moore has been in a church? Could have fooled me.
I actually find it funny. Ask a lib who in the Bible said "And ye shall be like gods." The responses are quite laughable.
The only fragment of Scripture most lefties have memorized is “Judge not lest ye be judged”.
hannity did a sloppy job in that interview
I’m not sure that Michael Moore is on board with all the moral teachings of the Church (what rabid Democrats are?). I do believe Hannity has also said some rather unsound things on artifical contraception...
And most of them think “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is gospel.
ok
Michael Moore I have an idea for you. Make a movie showing how wonderful religion is and counter Bill Maher’s Religulous.
Sloppy is being very nice. Hannity was made to look like a fool because he allowed Fat Bastard to derail the discussion and take control of it.
Michael Moore was on Sean Hannity’s program?
He heard about the free bread and wine.
Christianity is why the West cannot kick the socialist habit.
Christianity demonizes worldliness, riches, and achievement, while extolling deprivation, humiliation, and sacrifices for causes “greater than self.” Socialists take the Christians up on this and do so without hypocrisy.
McCain and Palin spent 2008 chanting “Country First.” The Democrats agreed, and are now nationalizing everything. There’s a book out there titled “Jesus Rode a Donkey” — on the economic issues, I don’t have a counter-reply. Republicans sympathetic to freedom act as if Jesus refused the cross, proclaiming “hell no, go die for your own damn sins!”
Yup. Look forward to bigger and badder Marxists in our future. At least there is hope for the Indians and Chinese— the Hindus worship Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, while the Chinese now believe that “to get rich is glorious.”
Christianity is what made the West in the first place.
Moore actually made Hannity his stooge for the whole interview. Sometimes Sean is in over his little head and doesn’t know the right answers.
Hannity just doesn’t despise these creeps as much as they deserve, as much as he would if he truly understood what they are trying to do to this country.
If you recall, Barack Obama, in one of his religious apologia speeches, said that he believed that Jesus was the son of God, but that he didn't know about "all that supernatural stuff." He said that he didn't really believe in all that.
I saw the part of the Moore interview where he started asking Hannity about being a Catholic. Hannity turned it around and asked Moore if he was a socialist. Then he asked about Moore's net worth and whether, as a socialist, he thought that was fair. I didn't hear Moore's answer, but I did notice that Moore hesitated and couldn't answer right away.
This is a twisted reading of the scriptures.
Not that I disagree with your point that the gospel has been used - misinterpreted, IMO - for personal gain. That is painfully obvious.
“The only fragment of Scripture most lefties have memorized is “Judge not lest ye be judged”.”
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We should all know that one. It’s pretty important.
You are RIGHT!!!! Two schmoos! or is it two schlmiels?
The most telling response to Marxist Christianity is that Jesus enjoined Christians to follow when he said “Whatever you do for thwe least of my Brothers, you do unto Me.” The you, while addressed to Christians was addressed to them as individuals not groups, empires, or governments. The You is decidedly singular in meaning. There is no place registered for any of us in God’s eyes because we have voted to take the wealth of others without their consent in order to do what we belioeve is God’s work
White people are why the West cannot kick the socialist habit. I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
The Gospels are rarely interpreted for personal gain — that would be too good to be true!
No, the Gospels are interpreted to encourage personal *sacrifice* — that’s why a rich man can’t get into heaven, we should turn the other cheek, ignore our families and follow the Lord, etc. etc. If I’m conceiving Christianity falsely, then Christians believe the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is an ignoble, wicked thing. But we both know this isn’t the case.
Given all the deceased and wounded Soldiers that Moore has defamed in order to get some cash for himself, I am surprised the worthless democrat bastard didn’t burst into flames at the entrance to the church.
Where does it say that?
It would not suprise me at all if Michael Moore went to Mass. However, you can either believe that some abortions are not the same thing as murder or you can be a Catholic, but not both.
Read the parable of the young rich man, Matthew 19:16-28.
Nowhere does he imply its a sin to be rich, that we should abandon our families, etc.
And apparently you've missed the point of his sacrifice on our behalf entirely. Thats not unusual - very many have.
he used to put stink bombs in the incense burners when he was an alter boy at St. John’s in Davison
Apparently Hannity has memorized it to: cf. the video at 0:58.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usTWwSbpWRc
Moore’s a communist. Commies detest religion, especially Christianity.
He says it is difficult, not impossible. The young rich man was asking, obliquely, what he could give to Jesus in order to recieve eternal life. Jesus response was that it couldn’t be bought, but that by selling everything and giving it away he could accept the gift of eternal life without feeling like he “deserved” it by giving Jesus something.
The love of money, not money itself, is what Jesus was pointing out to the young man as the obstacle to salvation.
“And that we should consider others before ourselves. Does that offend you?”
I’m not a socialist. In many cases, we should consider ourselves before we consider others.
In fairness to JC, he does say to love others *as you love yourself*, so he’s not a pure altruist like Auguste Comte.
The reason socialism is so attractive to the world, the reason liberation theology, the reason communism have made so many inroads in society is due to mankind trusting in himself and not the One who set the universe in motion.
That's why a rich man won't be able to buy his way into heaven, he trusted in his wealth — not in the God who gave it to him. Hoarding wealth when good can be done to ease the burdens of others, is also a way of damming up the system of prosperity. We are to be alike a river flowing out to the nations.
Only socialists can be considerate spouses, good friends, and concerned citizens?
You make the democrats case against us.
I just got that same line from a Social Studies teacher I know, he is Mormon. I just shake my head and cry, because there is no talking to them. He actually had that screed on his blackboard.
I am so surprised that Moore is a Catholic.
I hope he goes to confession about the lying he does in his so-called documentaries.
Hannity on the other hand doesn’t seem to know that abortion is always wrong.
He also needs some churching.
Also, Jesus said a rich man COULDN'T get to heaven, he said it was easier for a camel to get through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.
Meaning its hard, not impossible.
What B$, Catholics maybe, but not most Protestants. And of course as I stated elsewhere at least one Mormon I know.
Michael Moore (quote), from his website, April 14, 2004...
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"
[actual quote from Michael Moore (2004). It still appears on his website]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14
Come on show you knowledge of the Bible, give us a scripture reference on that statement.
Don't bother there isn't one.
I'm just sayin' I wouldn't want to be in the Wright/Moore line on Judgement Day.
Like I told someone else on this thread, Moore is Liberation Theology type of Catholic. Liberation theology was designed to take parts of Catholicism and use it as a community organizing tool. They take the parts that they can twist to their agenda and use it in the Saul Alinsky method of making Christians live up to their own rules and values. The Black Liberation Theology was an off shoot of the Catholic Liberation Theology of South America. The Jesus was a community organizer came from that.
Those who came up just after us received nothing but Kumbaya and New Age, hippy-dippy, anything goes training. It is no wonder the two sounded like Dumb and Dumber.
It’s part of the Obama-Kmiec strategy to divide Catholics. Moore fits in with the “Obama-Catholics” who claim that Obama is more in tune with “Catholic Social Teaching” because he (and Monsieur Moore) cares about the poor and the conservatives only care about aborted fetuses; besides conservatives are capitalists, capitalism hates the poor, Catholics can’t be capitalists.
If Obama’s people can succeed in synchronizing “Catholicism” with “Liberalism” and making “Catholicism” and “Conservatism” mutually exclusive, they will be able to hold on to enough “Catholics” (mostly the ones not paying much attention, but also the lib-Caths who are paying attention) to keep winning.
At least that’s their strategy. To do it they need stooges like Kmiec but may have failed sufficiently to be scraping the bottom of the barrel and thus entrusted Fatso Moore with an Ambassadorship to the Wingnut Catholics.
That being said, Hannity would be more credible in his claims to be a good Catholic if he’d actually learn a bit about why the Church opposes contraception. (It lies behind all the social pathologies, divorce, absent fathers etc.) If Hannity could be bothered to learn a bit about his Catholic faith, he would realize he could actually follow the Church here and still be consistent with his social convinctions, but he’s too obtuse to realize it, so he trumpets his dissent on this point.
Well said...Sean only knows how to regurgitate talking points. Has he ever had an original thought?
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