Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request

CNS NEWS.com ^ | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | By Edwin Mora

[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there."

SNIPPET: "Roman Catholics traditionally use “IHS” as an abbreviation for Jesus’ name."

SNIPPET: "Although the monogram was removed from the wooden pediment on the Gaston Hall stage where it would have been directly above and behind President Obama as he spoke, the letters “IHS” are posted elsewhere around the hall approximately 26 times on shields representing different parts of the United States and the world."

[RightField]

Is that like holding up a cross in front of Dracula or something?

GMTA. Exactly my words to Mr. RightField!

[giotto]

Couldn’t he have just pretended it meant “In Hussein’s Service?” Or even that, during his speech, the “His” in IHS referred to him (Obama)? Why and how could three such innocuous letters be such a threat to his image? Very strange.

[RightField]

Of course the media roasted Ashcroft for supposedly covering up a statue.

You're right! Where's the MSM outrage now? (should I used a /sarc tag here?)

Justice Department statues get covered up

[Texas4ever]

why is anyone surprised....can we stop the charades now?

OUR PRESIDENT IS A MUSLIM, EUROPEAN SYMPATHIZER THAT HATES AMERICAN VALUES....THERE I SAID IT! NOW LETS FOCUS ON 2012!!

[Straight Vermonter]

In the Latin-speaking Christianity of medieval Western Europe (and so among Catholics and many Protestants today), the most common Christogram is "IHS" or "IHC", derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-sigma, or ΙΗΣ. Here, the Greek letter eta was transliterated as the letter H in the Latin-speaking West (Greek eta and Latin-alphabet H had the same visual appearance and shared a common historical origin), while the Greek letter sigma was either transliterated as the Latin letter C (due to the visually similar form of the lunate sigma), or as Latin S (since these letters of the two alphabets wrote the same sound). Because the Latin-alphabet letters I and J were not systematically distinguished until the 17th century, "JHS" and "JHC" are equivalent to "IHS" and "IHC".

From Wikipedia

[Diogenesis]

[rhema]

Wonder if Georgetown ever listens to more authoritative opinions than those of the Obama White House.

"For whoever is ashamed of Me [Jesus] and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels." -- Luke 9:26

[Prov1322]

Thanks for the ping D!

[rollo tomasi]

Did anyone read the last part of the article?

Obama using the Sermon on the Mount to promote big government, good grief.

First, his cronies asked symbols to be covered up.

Second, Obama perverts Christ's message.

The fact that the audience/Clergy did not raise a stink tells me we have a bunch of lemmings posing as “Spiritual leaders” running amok all over the place.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Matthew 24:15-16,21, 22

Jesus speaking to the disciples sortly before his arrest:

15: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place...
16: Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains...
(then various warnings not to waste time or look back)

continuing...
21: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22: And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

[dools007]

I’m forever grateful my son rejected Georgetown. That place has been coopted by leftist clergy who think—like the lenders, Wall Street and Detroit auto companies—that their ox will not be gored.

Alas, history repeats itselt—again.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“I am really getting sick of the liberal American Catholic Church. They are pro-ACORN, LULAC, La Raza, MALDEF etc. The Pope needs to smack this down now.”
I rarely venture into dissing or discussing any-ones religious beliefs, but since I was raised Catholic I'll share my puzzlement that I find it incredulous that any Catholic anywhere would support, vote for, or defend any DemonRAT politician for any reason. I have no explanation other that to postulate that many followers of Jesus Christ, Catholic and other denominations are fooled because the cleaver underpinnings of the DemonRATs campaign slogans sound like Christian principles. In fact,snippets of their platform from their web site:
Empowering Families for a New Era
· Affordable, Quality Health Care Coverage for All Americans
· Retirement
· Good Jobs with Good Pay
· Work and Family
· Poverty
· Opportunity for Women
All of these agenda items are carefully chosen because it's hard to fault these items as something one would be unilaterally opposed to. As with everything the DemonRAT party stands for and pays lip service to, the devil is in the details.
Christians believe in being charitable and helping their fellow man, DemonRATS believe in robbing you at gunpoint so they can be charitable with your money.
Christians believe Christ is King, DemonRATs and quite a few Republicans believe they are little Kings. (lessor potentates, not the beverage).
Finally, I think that many Catholics and quite a few other denominations have fallen victim to the decades of slick manipulations of liberal activists who have systematically, purposefully and incrementally waged war on what used to be common sense values. I am always wary of the man or woman that carries the large Bible and proclaims their own righteousness. My experience has always been that they wave those to distract you from what they are doing with the other hand.

[Friendofgeorge]

Obama loves Jesus, but he wants the name of Jesus out of the public square, the classroom etc. He wants Gods unborn children murdered (aka tortured). Obama is a living piece of shiet!!! I know of no other way to put it!!!

[reefdiver]

You beat me too that one, But it is what I was just thinking.

[avacado]

Obama

[Yankee]

Obama offends me.

[Texan Tory]

He needs to cover up the name of Jesus (IHS) so that he doesn’t indirectly endorse the competition.

[Yankee]

Could be......

The White House is still swearing that it wasn’t a bow to the Saudi king, so I guess Obama was just giving Abdulah a Lewinsky.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"How many ways will catholics be insulted before they stop playing door mat to people who disrespect them by their mere presence?"

Stop playing doormat? Try stop voting for the SOBs. Catholics are a reliable DemocRat constituency, and some of the most odious DemocRats are Catholics: Pelosi, Murtha, Kerry, Teddy K...

The Church has some serious weeding-out to do before I can feel too terrible about its doormat status.

[OafOfOffice]

obama doesn’t want people clinging to religion, he wants them clinging to him and Islam.