Posted on 10/16/2004 8:49:06 AM PDT by discipler
A couple of days ago Bill O'Reilly was in the middle of a diatribe on the Cathoics (I'm not one, but I believe) trying to intidate Kerry. He said, the word "sin" is thrown around way too much in this country. I would have to DISagree. The problem is that real sin is being ignored or blurred into mushy grays.
In 2001, in the Jewish World Review, O'Reilly said in one of his rambling diatribes, "What the public school system needs are mandatory courses in Judeo-Christian ethics, the principles on which this country was founded." Does O'Reily know that it is impossible to talk about "Judeo-Christian ethics" without concluding that some things are objectively right and some things are wrong (see: Jewish World Review August 27, 2001 / 8 Elul, 5761).
O'Reilly is a confusing person who will go back and forth on an issue -- strongly taking both sides -- and thereby make it impossible to know with any exactness where he stands. People need exactness, clarity, objectivity. A study of the "Judeo-Christian ethic" would have to examine the Old Testament problem of moral laxness and relativism. Ezekiel wrote against the priests (the moral teachers of Israel) "they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean;" (Ez. 22:26). People need to know the difference between the "holy and profane" (Lev. 10:10). And God says, "woe to those who call evil good, and good evil." The problems we see in America have a lot to do with moral decline; blindness to truth; the confusion of ignorance; and the powerful delusion brought on by self-will.
It is very difficult to tell where the guy stands. At one minute he talks about President Bush in positive terms, and then wham, he takes a swipe at him. At one minute he's lumping the Republicans and Democrats together in negative terms, and the next minute he's talking about the positive things the Republicans do.
In the April 3, 2001 Jewish World Review, O'Reilly discusses why Bush wouldn't bail California out of its economic mess: "That's because the president wants to send Americans a message: You want more cash? Support a tax cut. You want more energy? Support drilling and fossil fuel plants and nuclear facilities. President Bush learned in Texas that take-home pay trumped the dirty air in Houston and the do-gooder social programs that the Lone Star State never even bothered with. For the hard-eyed pragmatists currently in power, it is all about money in your pocket at the end of the month. And it will be for the next four years."
Then in August, he says of Bush, "...he comes off as a nice guy. But I also believe that most Americans are not fully confident that the president will be effective, because he is not exactly a George Patton type leader. He doesn't look you in the eye and make you want to charge machine gun nests. He looks you in the eye, grins, and the golf cart pulls up."
What is it with this guy? O'Reilly is impossible to read. The fact that he plays a little golf doesn't mean he is clueless when it comes to the economy, but that was O'Reilly's implication. Such statements are eaten up by liberal wackos even though they aren't rooted in truth.
O'Reilly talks like someone with two minds, or someone who is on drugs. He is a weird dude!!
LOL and the truth of the matter.
One of his pastimes is 'outing' the stupidity of others. . .'how could he be so stupid' is his mantra when he finds it.
Just shows how big, the personal blindspot is; and how easily arrogance obscures it.
His interview with Ann Coulter the other night; was certainly a case in point on 'how can you be sooooo stupid'.
Ask O'Reilly.
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