Posted on 03/05/2007 3:17:03 PM PST by MadIvan
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says Jesus would be appalled at how the United States has ignored the plight of the suffering, and that he believes children should have private time to pray at school.
Edwards, in an interview with the Web site Beliefnet.com, said Jesus would be most upset with the selfishness of Americans and the country's willingness to go to war "when it's not necessary."
"I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs," Edwards told the site. "I think he would be appalled, actually."
Edwards also said he was against teacher-led prayers in public schools, but he added that "allowing time for children to pray for themselves, to themselves, I think is not only OK, I think it's a good thing."
In the interview, the former North Carolina senator discussed how he lost touch with his day-to-day faith during college, but that it "came roaring back" after the death of his 16-year-old son, Wade, in 1996.
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Regards, Ivan
"Whatever Ann said has been wiped away by this"
Da zdravstvui, Ivan!
(For those who don't speak Russian, this means "Right on, Ivan!" For those who do speak Russian it could mean something else. Izvinitiye! [no offense])
Anyway, before Edwards gets that speck out his neighbor's eye, he needs to get that log out of his own.
Spoken like a true Cheddar and Stilton fan.
What would Jesus say about those whose calling is to heal the sick, being driven from the practice of their profession by ambulance chasers who then invest part of their ill-earned loot in obscenely sized mansions? Care to comment, Breck Girl?
Well, Mr. Edwards, I don't think encouraging children to pray to themselves instead of to God is a very smart idea.
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Please Lord, let me have a house like John Edwards.
Mr. Edwards you are no Jesus Christ.
Think it as you may that you feel you are his father, you are no Jesus Christ.
"I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs," Edwards
How big is his house, again?
The part behind the house is for the soccer field.
If a typical family of four lives in a 1200 square foot apt. or house, I guess this means that Edwards will be inviting more than 20 such families to live with him in his 28,000 square foot mansion.
Oh, I forgot. All the animals are equal, but some of them are more equal than others.
Remember what Jesus had to say about camels, needles and rich men, Breckwards!
This guy almost makes me like Hitlerry! He is a piece of work. I never liked him but I dislike him even more now. He is a little creep.
Damn, he's channelling again.
Oh, I just realized there must have been a typo in the headline.
"Edwards: Jesus Would Be 'Appalled' at Us Democrats"
You've received a lot of criticism from people about the size of your house. In your book, "Home," you quote Rick Warren saying, "What I've noticed is that where people live affects how they live." If that's true, how does your home impact you? What does it say about you? And does it in any way undercut your discussion of the poor?
I think it's a fair question, first of all. And here's how I feel about it. The book that you made reference to that Rick Warren is in, "Home," I think the overwhelming message from that is, whatever the structure, the physical structure--some of the houses in my book were very small, tiny. Some of them were huge. And what matters in the message from that book is [that] the physical structure's not important. What matters is what happens inside that physical structure, and what kind of values and beliefs and faith are taught inside that structure. And so, you know, I come from a very modest place and I've done well and we have a very nice physical structure. It's completely unimportant. What matters is what happens inside that structure.
And back to your question about Jesus and what he would be most disappointed in, what we're doing to meet the needs of those around us. I'm not for a minute suggesting we are saints or we have done more than a lot of other people have done, but Elizabeth and I have spent a lot of time building a couple of learning centers for low-income kids who need a place to use technology, made college scholarships available, helped build houses for people who don't have houses, helped with humanitarian needs in Africa. Those are some of the causes--I'm sure I'm forgetting some--that we have been personally committed to, both before we got in politics and since that time. So, do I think we've done everything we could do? No. I don't think anybody does. But I think Jesus would be happy with some of the things we've done.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/213/story_21312_1.html
Selfishness? Where the *@#% did he get that?
Did aliens come down from space and replace his brain with mashed potatoes?
And it's been a heavily crowded field, to be sure.
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