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Kerry: I Have Reread New Testament
NewsMax | 5/31/05

Posted on 05/31/2005 6:29:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who lost this crucial swing state in November, sounded Friday as if he were still stumping for Florida's votes.

The Massachusetts senator, at a National Head Start Association conference to tout his plan to provide health care for uninsured children, hammered on familiar themes of values and unity while repeatedly criticizing the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress.

"I went back and reread the whole New Testament the other day. Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I find a suggestion at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsover, that you ought to take the money from the poor, the opportunities from the poor and give them to the rich people," Kerry said.

Kerry has yet to officially announce whether he's in the running for the 2008 nomination, and he didn't take questions from the media Friday.

But while speaking to the educators and child advocates gathered in a hotel ballroom, it wasn't difficult to imagine his rhetoric, unchanged, being said at a campaign rally.

"We need to enlist and join together in a great cause across the country that puts a simple choice before our fellow Americans. It's a choice that, I think, is based on values," Kerry said.

Following Florida's 2000 election debacle, in which Bush emerged the barest of winners over Al Gore after five weeks of partisan fighting, the Democratic Party made capturing the state one of its highest priorities.

But Kerry couldn't pull the state into his column, despite the millions spent on advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts. Bush prevailed by almost 381,000 ballots, for a margin of five percentage points.

"The fact is, 10 million more Americans voted for our idea of what we wanted to do than voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 when he was the sitting president of the United States," Kerry said. "The fact is, a million people volunteered. The fact is, across America we created an energy.

"And that energy is going to keep on going and keep on fighting until we achieve what we want to."

If Kerry decides to run, possible competition for the party's nomination include his former running mate, ex-N.C. Sen. John Edwards; N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton, and retired general Wesley Clark.


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To: areafiftyone

"I went back and reread the whole New Testament the other day..."

Yeah, right. I'm gonna read 'War and Peace' this afternoon, but I've got a few more pages to go from this morning's read, 'The Brothers Karamazov.'


101 posted on 05/31/2005 7:26:04 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Fun Fact: Did you know that NEWSWEEK has killed more people than Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile?)
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To: Sybeck1
Bingo. In this incident ointment worth a years wage was poured over Jesus head, and when someone suggested that should've went to the poor Jesus responded with your above quote, which directly counterdicts Kerry
This incident illustrates exactly what Kerry said he was looking for. It is an example from the New Testament where money that could've easily been given to the poor was given to the rich (Jesus is God who owns all and is arguably the richest anywhere) and Jesus Himself approved.
Only thing is that I don't believe Kerry ever cracked his bible for even a second, let alone read the entire New Testament.
102 posted on 05/31/2005 7:26:27 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (OUT OF ORDER)
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To: areafiftyone

Frankly I am tired of seeing conservatives putting the "rich" on a pedestal. Many, if not most, of the rich, inherit their money or have parents who are at least wealthy enough to give them a head start in life. The poor - and increasingly the middle class - obviously don't have this, and are falling further behind in their salary dollars over the past 30 years. Let's not start kicking the poor just because some folks got a head start. I don't mind the rich, but I hate it when people kick the poor around or start blaming them for being poor. Some people bring it on themselves, but most actually don't - it is VERY hard to dig your way out of poverty you're born into, especially nowadays. The working poor work very hard indeed for smaller and smaller returns. We are no longer living in the early 1900s when we had far more unlimited opportunities for the poor to climb out of poverty. Be grateful for what you have and show some compassion for those who have less, usually through no fault of their own. This beating up on the poor is probably the single most unattractive quality I see in the conservative movement.


103 posted on 05/31/2005 7:26:29 AM PDT by blueblazes
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To: 2banana
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104 posted on 05/31/2005 7:27:23 AM PDT by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: areafiftyone

How dare a US government official bring religion into politics. What about seperation of Church and state? Where is the ACLU? My rights have been violated by Kerry advocating his religous preferences. I'm outraged. He has no right to imply that his religion is the right one. This is not a theocracy!!!

Oh, that's right, religion is only bad and the domain of fanatics when it's the conservatives/republicans doing the talking. Silly me.


105 posted on 05/31/2005 7:28:34 AM PDT by frankiep
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To: areafiftyone

Kerry is a pompous a$$.


106 posted on 05/31/2005 7:29:16 AM PDT by RightWhale (These problems would not exist if we had had a moon base all along)
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To: areafiftyone
If Kerry re-read the NT (in a day?) and is fundamentally unchanged, he read it wrong.

It is a supernatural book. It is not a magic book.

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG

107 posted on 05/31/2005 7:29:26 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: areafiftyone

I think Kerry needs a new bible. The Word according to Kerry would require that Jesus jump up and either stop the widow from contributing or giver her her money back.


The Widow's Offering
41Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins,[a]worth only a fraction of a penny.[b]

43Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.


108 posted on 05/31/2005 7:29:37 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: areafiftyone

There was no welfare program in the scriptures. A farmer was to leave the corners of his field and if the poor wanted to eat they had to go out and get the wheat. Now you can't get them to go to the public welfare office to get the bennies.


109 posted on 05/31/2005 7:29:38 AM PDT by TrailofTears ( Only a fool thinks we can squander freedom in a phony exchange for safety without becoming slaves.)
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To: highlander_UW; Sloth

I was thinking of the same passage of Scripture. Of course this passage addresses how people use money (among other things)....


110 posted on 05/31/2005 7:31:27 AM PDT by Theo
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To: areafiftyone

One DAY?!?!?! Impossible. He has been contemplating and meditating on "render unto Caesar" for the past 20 years, and hasn't gotten any farther than that.


111 posted on 05/31/2005 7:32:10 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Scythian
He has reached all new low, wow.

I'm sure he's not done with the digging, either.

112 posted on 05/31/2005 7:34:08 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
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To: areafiftyone

Lurch obviously hasn't gotten any smarter.

I'm also trying to figure out just how fast of a speed reader - he said he re-read the entire New Testament "the other day", implying that he re-read it in a single day. I find it hard to believe that even a speed reader could comprehend the entire New Testament in one day. There are many Bible scholars who spend their entire lives trying to understand it all.

But you know what - I don't see anything in the Bible that says to take away from those who have to give to those who "have not". In fact, I do see references to the slothful/lazy not eating. Hmmmm... .Maybe Kerry needs to read that part.


113 posted on 05/31/2005 7:34:19 AM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberals)- the cult of Satan)
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To: blueblazes

What are you *talking* about? Nobody is doing what you're accusing us of doing.

Welcome to FR. Hopefully you'll read and listen before responding with your preconceived notions next time.


114 posted on 05/31/2005 7:34:38 AM PDT by Theo
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To: 2banana

Great reply 2banana!!!


115 posted on 05/31/2005 7:34:44 AM PDT by RightCanuck
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

John F'n Kerry, We do not care what you have read. Sign the form 180, and go away. Your party is insane if they run you again, but we'll deal with it and overcome you again. (he is such and idiot).


116 posted on 05/31/2005 7:35:05 AM PDT by television is just wrong (http://heidisblogs.blogspot.com/ (visit blogs, visit ads).)
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To: areafiftyone
I Have Reread New Testament

"... and in the original French, too!" :)

117 posted on 05/31/2005 7:35:24 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-G-d, PRO-LIFE..." -- FR founder Jim Robinson)
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To: TrailofTears

Giving to the poor is supposed to be willing and without duress, not government mandated.


118 posted on 05/31/2005 7:35:43 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (chance is the “magic wand to make not only rabbits but entire universes appear out of nothing.”)
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To: areafiftyone

I'm enjoying the Bible commentary, but am I the only one that finds his shots at Clinton as entertaining as Kerry's revision of the Scriptures?


119 posted on 05/31/2005 7:39:05 AM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: blueblazes

I haven't seen a single post here that could be called "beating up on the poor". Explain what you are talking about (and charging people with) with examples, please.


120 posted on 05/31/2005 7:40:24 AM PDT by laconic
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