Posted on 05/25/2005 12:11:24 PM PDT by thorace
(This article reads better if you go to Page 21 of the pdf version: http://ee.dcexaminer.com/dc/?haspdf=1 )
"With increasing regularity, leaders of the Democratic Party are seeking support for big-government ideology in, of all places, the Bible.
"Failed presidential candidate John Kerry, for example, persists in appealing to the New Testament's book of James. 'Faith without works is dead,' Kerry intones, suggesting that "works" here includes the works of lawmakers as they spend other people's money.
"In a similar fashion, Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, is wont to quote the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus teaches that '[i]nasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Pelosi says doing unto the least means raising more taxes for entitlement programs.
"Even DNC Chairman Howard Dean, who kicked off Bush's second term with 'I hate Republicans,' recently accused the ones he hates of violating the biblical command to 'love thy neighbor as thyself' . . . ."
(Excerpt) Read more at dcexaminer.com ...
Yeah. I guess after seeing reading the exit polls in 2004 they figured they'd better start quoting the Bible. They must get their ideas from the apostate church leaders like Bishop Griswold in NJ.
Wonder if libs see the hypocrisy of "Love-your-neighbor-Howard-Dean" claiming that he hates Republicans.....
If they don't see the hypocrisy, they are wilfully blind!
Now I grant you that there are a minority of people who profess themselves to be Christian, who don't have a clue. That being said, the doctrine of Christ (read the apostle's creed) is taught generally in mainline, Evangelical, Roman and Orthodox divisions of Christianity. The fundemental basic tenet of Christianity is that man's redemption comes only through the God-man (Jesus) , His life, death and resurrection. Islam and Judaism make no such claim.
The 'works' that Kerry talks about are the result of becoming a believer. Furthermore, these 'works' are given from the heart not confiscated at gunpoint by the government.
It's just more evidence of what they don't know...
Jess got it right, "Politicians on both sides of the isle have "hijacked" Christianity."
"Politicians on both sides of the isle have "hijacked" Christianity."
I can't agree.
A longtime opponent of the ills of communism, Pope John Paul II turned the Roman Catholic Church's attention Saturday to the evils of unfettered capitalism on a visit to Mexico.
Shame on you then.
There may be an occasional wayward conservative who abuses scripture for political gain. But that's the exception, not the rule. But with liberals, it's an epidemic.
I'm passin' this gem on...thank you!
Especially with Kerry doing all the spending and directing of spending of other peoples money. Only he or his duly appointed crony could possibly spend it perfectly. While retaining all of his own.
Yeah, the muslims sure love us, don't they.
Selecting a few verses out of context here and there through the bible tells you very little or nothing about the real meaning of those verses in the context in which they were given. For example, one bible verse says that Judas went out and hanged himself, and a verse in another place in the same book says "go thou and do likewise".
No one believes that those verses are instructing the reader to hang himself. By the same token, no one should take the verses used by the dimrats to mean that God wants government to take money by force from those who work for their living and give it to those who could work but won't. Voluntary charitable giving to people in genuine need is undeniably a good work, and Christians are urged to do so by many bible passages. But so are virtues such as working for what you get and giving an honest day's work for honest pay. Paul instructed the early church in words to the effect that if a man will not work neither shall he eat.
No matter how much the dimrats twist scripture to serve their own purposes, they can't show anything in the bible that commends a system of involuntary collectivism, or that recommends that system as a charitable good work.
Amen to everything in your post.
Yes. And the Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner points out that entitlement programs can actually make people less charitable towards their neighbors; and deprive individuals of the greater blessing promised by Christ to those who give.
We have free will to do right and wrong. There is no "good will" or "charity" shown when we are forced under penalty of law to pay our taxes.
Those who choose to give to the poor because they WANT to have done more than those who have paid their taxes. Tithing is in ADDITION to paying taxes.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" IS in the leftist's bible, Marxism.
Liberals at times think the bible is just a how -to manual for social, economic and even political strategy, rather than what it is, the revealing of God and His plan of redemption for us sinners; the revealing of how to actually know God and have relationship with Him.
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