Posted on 08/05/2008 3:53:27 AM PDT by dascallie
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Ping
BTTT
the antics of the democrat party make me think of russian tanks rolling through the streets of budapest.
Speaking of not reading their Bibles, maybe BHO should. God did not “send down an angel” to intervene at the last moment with Abraham and Isaac. If you’re going to lecture someone on something, you’d better make darn sure you have it right yourself. What a pontificating overblown arrogant empty suit — how dare he lecture me on religion!
Also, it’s clear that he does not believe in the inerrancy of the Bible.
No real surprise - ping!
bttt
He wasn’t condemning The Sermon on the Mount, he was praising it. This is a big stretch.
Where does he come up with such an idea? This sounds like projection. Of course the only faith that actually practices such ideas... is Islam.
No longer a Christian nation? Those are strong words. ‘and a nation of nonbelievers’ — sounds like wishful thinking on his part.
“Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy?”
He doesn't even know. He doesn't WANT to know.
“Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”
This smacks of mockery.
“Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application?”
More mockery. And the tragedy is that pacifist leftists are the ones confusing Americas preachers in college.
“So before we get carried away, let’s read our bibles.”
Who's getting carried away? This is trying to make Christians sound like nuts— character assassination of Christianity.
“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason.”
He has no clue what ‘reason’ is when Barackula called for the killing of BORN infants with the old Roman practice of leaving them to die. His ancient sense of ‘reason’ is borderline primitive, couched by ‘progressive’ leftist mumbo-jumbo.
“I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will.”
He's sophomoric when it comes to understanding how our legal system has been hijacked ever since FDR packed the courts. And his lack of common sense blinds him to the most fundamental building block of ethics— saving a helpless infant, even after the child is born.
“I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”
There's only one faith that kills a fully born baby— satanism.
“Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals do.”
So they call for the stoning of people? Strong faith was the foundation of our founders. It worked really well until FDR packed the courts.
“But in a pluralistic democracy, we have no choice. Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality. It involves the compromise, the art of what’s possible. At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It’s the art of the impossible.”
ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE? DID YOU SEE THAT? ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE? IMPOSSIBLE? ART?
“ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE.” There's an Obama keeper.
“If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God’s edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one’s life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.”
Essentially, he's saying that Christianity is dangerous.
“And if you doubt that, let me give you an example.
We all know the story of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham is ordered by God to offer up his only son, and without argument, he takes Isaac to the mountaintop, binds him to an altar, and raises his knife, prepared to act as God has commanded.”
Irony. Obama doesn't need God to DO THE SAME THING! But not in the name of religion— no. To him, killing a BORN infant is little more than a commitment to his deluded view of ‘reproductive rights’.
“But it’s fair to say that if any of us leaving this church saw Abraham on a roof of a building raising his knife, we would, at the very least, call the police and expect the Department of Children and Family Services to take Isaac away from Abraham.”
But when a baby lies on the operating table and is left to die there, that's perfectly legal. The guy does not even see the parallel. He needs some faith badly. Should Obama and his ilk even be allowed to be dog catchers?
“Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”
We need more modifications I suppose?
“The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”
Is it wise to marry a poodle? Is it wise to re-write dictionaries? Is it wise to take a word and strike it out with a new defininition? Marriage is clearly defined. The only ‘wisdom’ in sodomous marriage is the desire of people living a dangerous lifestyle seeking the same insurance beneifits of people who live more traditionally. Gay marriage is essentially theft.
“But a sense of proportion should also guide those who police the boundaries between church and state.”
What boundaries? Sophistry once again. There is no wall of separation. We simply cannot establish a single way to ‘worship God’. We do not even have the right to worship Satan, constitutionally speaking. If a state made it illegal to dedicate a book to Lucifer, it has every Constitutional right to do so.
Louis Farakhan says this: “Obama is the “messiah” - The “sign” is that the youth are following him”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055302/posts
Hope a transcript comes out from that youtube speech. FRegards ....
ping.
I call him "egObama" now.
Oh, it's not just Obama.
In order to be a leftist, you must believe that you and your ideological counterparts are
wiser than anyone that ever lived,
and wiser than God himself.
The former is evidenced by their attempts to implement the failed policies of socialism because THEY can make them work where everyone else wasn't able to. Also, you must believe that any traditional morality has no value in the face of your own superior "reasoning ability".
The latter, "wiser than God", is evidenced by their rejection of Biblical truth in favor of their own superior intellect. God had something to say about this:
Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;"
Remember that there’s a difference between inerrancy and literalism. The Scripture is always right, but maybe it does not address the concern we would like. The Bible is inspired by God to uplift man into a closer communion with Him, not to be a literal history in all cases.
We do not presume to say it was all dictated verbatim by God’s messenger. Only two religions do that.
I know the movies has some Scriptural inaccuracies, but the story is powerful.
Thanks for saving and posting this.
You might consider putting this on your home page and refer to it whenever, Obama, the Oreo CINO tries to convince us how Christian he is.
I would call him a horse’s patootie, but I don’t want to insult horse’s... or their patooties.
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