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Posted on 03/06/2005 1:01:04 PM PST by Hugenot
Senator Edward Kennedy (D, MA) has just returned from Lourdes a believer, or at least viewers of This Week with George Stephanopoulos might be inclined to think so after watching his interview with the Senator.
This time there was no haughty lecture on the separation of Church and State when Stephanopoulos asked him about the impact of his faith on his politics. “I read the New Testament too,” the flustered Senator from Chappaquiddick protested as he bumbled about his faith and his family.
“My father made nine First Fridays for twenty-six years,” he said as he praised his mother’s devotion.
He rather sloppily referred to “the teachings of Mark,” which say that we will be judged on the way we treat the poor and marginalized (actually Matthew 25, although there are some interesting things about divorce and re-marriage in Mark’s Gospel) and went on to speak about his Catholic faith as a religion of “hope and resurrection.”
In other words, his last visit to a Church (apart from campaign stops) was for a funeral.
Republicans take note. As Democrats scramble to cut their losses on religious issues, witless Republicans like Christie Whitman lament that the Republican Party has been hijacked by religious conservatives.
The 2004 election proved that the Republicans need cultural conservatives to win on the national level. Senator Kennedy’s stammering about the importance of his faith only confirms what should be obvious to the most casual observer.
So incredibly hypocritical.
Hicccuupp.......
I don`t know what percentage of the Bible deals with treatment of the poor but I suspect it is less than 1 percent.
Too bad libs in their pitiful attempt to appear tolerant of religion in general and Christianity specifically never discover the rest of the Scriptures.
Senator Kennedy says "I uh, admired the Lords ability to turn water into wine. That's uh, my kind of messiah."
In a follow-up story, the Senator spontaneously burst into flame when some Lourdes water was accidentally sprinkled on him...
The difference is that when Teddy Kennedy (moral spokesman for the Democrat party) talks about how deeply religious he is, nobody believes it.
I guess he thinks that lets him off the hook. Because there's a lot to answer for if he really took Exodus 20 seriously.
(Exodus 20 = 10 Commandments)
“My father made nine First Fridays for twenty-six years,” he said as he praised his mother’s devotion.
Well, that's real nice Teddy, but what have you done lately to live your faith....ol' gasbag!
1st Marklukejon, um elevendy one
Jesus said a lot about that, but he never said that it was the duty of the Romans to tax the Jews to get it done. It's a personal responsibility, not something that should be left solely to the police power of the state.
People do not save their souls by encouraging the state to do the "good work" for everyone, whether they want it or not. Especially since government charges such a large handling fee.
The just treatment of the poor is central to both Judaism and Christianity.
But that means works of charity performed personally or personal donations to charitable organizations which genuinely help the poor. It doesn't mean imposing higher taxes to pay for a hugely expensive programs, in which most of the money goes to pay salaries of bureaucrats and the poor are only questionably helped.
It's very noticeable that Democrat politicians always want to tax somebody else to pay for the poor, but unless they are called to account they rarely give any money personally and rarely or never visit the sick, care for the hungry, visit prisoners, or anything else that the gospels call for.
Al Gore notoriously donated something like $150 one year to charity, before he was called on it. Kennedy probably contributes to NARAL and NOW. Teresa Heinz Kerry supervises the donations of millions to Communist political organizations. None of this does anything meaningful for the poor.
It's important for conservatives to take the high ground on moral issues, and not let Democrats get away with pretending to be concerned for the poor and the oppressed. They are not.
The sheeple will probably be taken in by these wolves if the GOP doesn't stay a step ahead with an offensive.
Does Kennedy have asbestos gloves to prevent his hands from bursting into flames when he holds the Bible?
I so agree about the demodimwits subterfuge.
I also am waiting for the Conservatives and GOP to get energized enough to point out the truth.
It occurred to me that if TK is sincerely religious,then he ought to be sweatin bullets at the mere mention(or thought)of the "here after".
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