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Is President Obama’s ‘glass houses’ scripture reference in the Bible? Not exactly.
The Washington Post ^ | Dec. 10, 2014 | Abby Ohlheiser

Posted on 12/10/2014 10:27:09 PM PST by boatbums

President Obama referred to the Bible during a speech on immigration Tuesday in Nashville. But there was a problem: Strictly speaking, one of the lines he cited appears nowhere in scripture.

"The good book says, don't throw stones in glass houses," the president said. "Or," he added, "make sure we're looking at the log in our eye before we are pointing out the mote in other folks' eyes."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Religion
KEYWORDS: blueturban; dolt; dumbcommie; glasshouses; hypocrisy; obama; obamafail; obamagaffes; obamaonreligion; obamaquotes; phonychristian; shuckandjive; stupidobamaquotes
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I laughed when I read this! Like Bill Clinton before him, he uses the Bible to cherry-pick phrases he can use to bolster his Liberal ideas. Neither one shows any genuine love for, or obedience to, the Word of God.
1 posted on 12/10/2014 10:27:09 PM PST by boatbums
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To: boatbums

Kinda like any one of us trying to quote the Koran ad hoc....which I betcha Obama could do accurately....


2 posted on 12/10/2014 10:34:22 PM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: boatbums

That’s about as good a spin as you can put on it. “Resonance” with the Bible.

The author’s resonance reminds me of the imaginary “penumbras” and “emanantions” of the Constitution that the Supreme Court held required the deaths of millions of babies. I’m sure Justice White would have used the word “resonance” along with the other two had he thought to include it also in Griswold v. Connecticut (the case just before Roe v. Wade that created the right to privacy out of thin air).


3 posted on 12/10/2014 10:34:33 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: boatbums
He would have done better to have quoted Jim Croce . . .

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim

4 posted on 12/10/2014 10:38:13 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: boatbums

Didn’t the Goron quote John 3:16 and call it John 16:3? don’t remember the context but these Amoral libs step in it whenever they shoot for the high ground and quote scripture, something the know nothing about or live by. God is not amused and will not be mocked by heathens.


5 posted on 12/10/2014 10:40:39 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: boatbums
The Washington Compost correcting the feckless fool on the hill on the Bible? Why did they not do that when he was at “Reverend” Wright's church in Chicago? Guess it was not the right time then was it? Fools, absolute, manipulative, useful idiot fools.
6 posted on 12/10/2014 10:44:35 PM PST by Fungi
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To: boatbums
Barack Obama Mocks And Makes Fun Of The Bible (video 2:09)

Obama: " We are no longer a Christian nation . . . " (video 1:27)

7 posted on 12/10/2014 10:46:29 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: capydick
Kinda like any one of us trying to quote the Koran ad hoc....which I betcha Obama could do accurately....

Yeah, and in fluent Arabic.

8 posted on 12/10/2014 10:48:51 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: boatbums

“Strictly speaking, one of the lines he cited appears nowhere in scripture. ... Obama completely “made up” a line of Bible verse out of “narcissism” in order to drive home a point about his stance on immigration, it should be noted that the sentiment behind the “glass houses” idiom is quite clearly found in the Bible.”

Is there ANY lie or idiocy by Obama that WaPo won’t write an entire article defending? Can you imagine the attacks by WaPo on a Pub Prez that fabricated phrases from the Bible?


9 posted on 12/10/2014 10:51:11 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: boatbums

Maybe it says that in the Quran?


10 posted on 12/10/2014 10:56:19 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: boatbums

He should have known that he would be fact checked by those of us
‘ clinging to our religion’, to use his phrase.


11 posted on 12/10/2014 10:57:32 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ModelBreaker

That was Justice William O. Douglas, not Whizzer White. Douglas also opined that that trees should having standing to sue, in Sierra Club v. Morton. I don’t think there has ever been a better argument for a mandatory retirement age for federal judges.


12 posted on 12/10/2014 11:01:23 PM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: boatbums

Hey, it’s not like he misspelled ‘potato’. No big deal.


13 posted on 12/10/2014 11:02:16 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: lee martell
0bama's an idiot.


14 posted on 12/10/2014 11:03:08 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: catnipman

From Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Robert Walsh - “. . . that men in glass houses should not provoke a war of stones . . .”

Monticello Feb. 6. 20.

1.DEAR SIR,—Continual ill health for 18. months past had nearly ended the business of letter-writing with me. I cannot however but make an effort to thank you for your vindicia Americana against Gr. Britain. The malevolence and impertinence of her critics & writers really called for the rod, and I rejoiced when I heard it was in hands so able to wield it with strength and correctness. Your work will furnish the Ist volume of every future American history; the Ante-revolutionary part especially. The latter part will silence the libellists of the day, who finding refutation impossible, and that men in glass houses should not provoke a war of stones, will be glad of a truce, to hush and be done with it. I wish that, being placed on the vantage ground by these researches and expositions of facts, our own citizens and our antagonists would now bury the hatchet and join in a mutual amnesty. No two nations on earth can be so helpful to each other as friends, nor so hurtful as enemies. And, in spite of their insolence I have ever wished for an honorable and cordial amity with them as a nation. I think the looking glass you have held up to them will now so compleatly humble their pride as to dispose them also to wish and court it.


15 posted on 12/10/2014 11:03:35 PM PST by donaldo
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To: donaldo
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones

Say what?
Those who are vulnerable should not attack others.

Origin
The proverb has been traced back to Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' (1385). George Herbert wrote in 1651: 'Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.' This saying is first cited in the United States in 'William & Mary College Quarterly' (1710). Twenty-six later Benjamin Franklin wrote, 'Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.' 'To live in a glass house' is used as a figure of speech referring to vulnerability." From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).


16 posted on 12/10/2014 11:06:09 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: boatbums
""The good book says, don't throw stones in glass houses,"

This represents his confused thinking getting stoned in a car with rolled up windows.
18 posted on 12/10/2014 11:12:40 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: boatbums

“...Bible to cherry-pick phrases he can use to bolster his Liberal ideas.”

He picked figs off that cherry tree...


19 posted on 12/10/2014 11:21:37 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: lee martell

There is no other way to express it but as you just did.

Valery most likely has a long list of ‘forbidden questions’ for any staffer working with the president, among the list; #1, Never tell the President that what he is saying doesn’t make any sense’ even when you and everyone else in the room know you to be correct.
#2. Never finish his sentences for him, no matter how many ‘uhmms, ahhhs, sighs or ten minute silences you must endure.
#3. Never ask him, ‘Will this be good for the country, Mr. President?’ as that is a loaded and thus unfair question.
#4. Never, ever ask him how Michelle actually got pregnant or which doctors or surrogates or agencies were utilized?, as that is none of your business.
#5. Never ask him about that seven inch curvlinear scar on the back of his head, or why he never wear hats.


20 posted on 12/10/2014 11:23:18 PM PST by lee martell
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