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Joe Biden, 'Practicing Catholic'
American Thinker ^ | October 14, 2012 | Jeannie DeAngelis

Posted on 10/14/2012 11:53:47 AM PDT by jazusamo

Amid all the smirking, chortling, and "give me a break, kid" sniggering that ill-mannered Joe Biden exhibited at the 2012 vice presidential debate, when he piously explained his stance on abortion, he exposed in totality the hypocrisy of liberal thinking.

Toward the end of the debate, Biden's friend and one time houseguest, moderator Martha Raddatz, posed the following question to the candidates: "We have two Catholic candidates ... [a]nd I would like to ask you both to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views on abortion[.]"

After Paul Ryan expressed how personal faith impacts his pro-life views, Joe Biden sobered up for a second and said, "My religion defines who I am, and I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life."

Like many liberals, whether it's a game of constitutional Twister or flexible religious creed, Joe fashions his faith to accommodate his personal beliefs. Therefore, the vice president and the enthusiastically pro-abortion Barack Obama both feel comfortable calling themselves Christian.

Mr. Biden identifies with Roman Catholicism but doesn't let that identity get in the way of his support of policy that directly contradicts church teaching on the sanctity of life. Joe may believe he's been "practicing" Catholicism his whole life, but he'd better keep those training wheels on his theological bicycle.

Echoing fellow Catholic Nancy Pelosi, Joe told Martha that except when it comes to the legally sanctioned death of innocent human beings, Catholicism has "particularly informed [his] social doctrine."

According to Joe, "[t]he Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who-who can't take care of themselves, people who need help," which Biden agrees with except when he's approving of brutally dismantling helpless innocents "who can't take care of themselves."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012veep; abortion; biden; cafeteriacatholic; catholicpoliticians; religiousleft
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1 posted on 10/14/2012 11:54:19 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

He’d better be practicing, because he damn sure hasn’t gotten it right.


2 posted on 10/14/2012 12:00:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: jazusamo

Biden a practicing Catholic?

He certainly needs the practice; he’s not very good at it.


3 posted on 10/14/2012 12:00:43 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: jazusamo

I blame the Catholic Church.

They ALLOW liberals to call themselves “Catholic” without following a word of their teachings.

But the Catholic Church does nothing. They do not excommunicate them. They allow them to attend mass and take part in the sacraments. They allow them to be married in their church. They allow their children’s baptisms in their church. They allow their funerals in their church.

Too bad the church does not have a backbone. Maybe more people would take them seriously.


4 posted on 10/14/2012 12:01:52 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Slings and Arrows; DuncanWaring

Yes, both he and Pelosi seem to have learned from each other instead of the church.


5 posted on 10/14/2012 12:03:54 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: Slings and Arrows

11 seconds...


6 posted on 10/14/2012 12:07:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 2banana
As outspoken as some pro abortion politicians are it surprises me the Catholic church doesn't take action but not being Catholic I don't understand the workings of the church.
7 posted on 10/14/2012 12:08:28 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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8 posted on 10/14/2012 12:10:35 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

With all the self professed “practicing Catholics” like Biden, Pelosi, Sabelius, etc, etc. why do we have an administration, a Congress, with such anti-Catholic policies? In my world, a “practicing Catholic” still talks about being Catholic. A Catholic who “lives” a Catholic life doesn’t have to practice anymore.


9 posted on 10/14/2012 12:12:48 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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... but not being Catholic I don't understand the workings of the church.

Many of us who are Catholic don't understand the workings of the Church, either.

10 posted on 10/14/2012 12:13:20 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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>>I blame the Catholic Church.

They ALLOW liberals to call themselves “Catholic” without following a word of their teachings.<<

I disagree with the contention the Church should take the blame for Biden’s apostasy, as well as the assertion that the Church ‘has no backbone.’

BTW, over one billion people ‘take them seriously.’


11 posted on 10/14/2012 12:18:15 PM PDT by delcopatriot
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To: jazusamo
Those who can, do.

Those who can't, practice.

12 posted on 10/14/2012 12:18:39 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: 2banana

The Catholic Church sold their soul to the Devil and are now paying the price. The reason for this is that they believe all the “Social Justice” drivel from the Democratic Party. . . that the Repub’s don’t care for the poor and down trodden.


13 posted on 10/14/2012 12:21:59 PM PDT by mia
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To: DuncanWaring

BTDT, my FRiend.


14 posted on 10/14/2012 12:22:26 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Adolf Hitler - “I don’t happen to believe that killing Jews is a bad thing but I wouldn’t want to impose that belief on others.” If Biden believes that “life” begins at conception, what does he call the ending that life? As a society we do impose our beliefs on others all the time. And yes, we do legislate morality, contrary to what liberals say; in fact, we legislate little else.


15 posted on 10/14/2012 12:29:08 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: jazusamo

Biden is a cafeteria Catholic. A Catholic by birth only.


16 posted on 10/14/2012 12:30:02 PM PDT by dancusa (Re-electing Obama is like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceburg again.)
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To: jazusamo

might he be a CINO?


17 posted on 10/14/2012 12:40:12 PM PDT by isom35
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To: DuncanWaring

If Old Joe was sincere about helping the poor, he would have been giving more than an average $369 a year to charity. Talk is cheap. Joe is a wealthy man, and yet he gives less than my wife and I do. Shameful!


18 posted on 10/14/2012 12:52:48 PM PDT by NotTallTex
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To: jazusamo
taking care of those who-who can't take care of themselves, people who need help

Yep .... the smiling ass clown believes in helping the helpless as long as he's doing it with other people's money. He personal charitable contributions are embarrassingly paltry.

19 posted on 10/14/2012 12:53:28 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: jazusamo
I'm a Protestant, so my comments may be uninformed.
Mr Biden may be (as he claims) a practicing Catholic, but is he a professing Catholic?
I know that within the Protestant church I attend, we have many people who attend church regularly and are in a sense practicing members; but their professions of faith in no way measures to what can be called orthodox church doctrine.
They interpret (really, pervert) the doctrines of the faith to suit their own predilections and desires. Yet rather than leave the church and find one whose doctrines are more compatible, they remain and cause no end to harm.
Perhaps the Catholic church has such members. If so, Mr Biden would seem to be one of them.
20 posted on 10/14/2012 12:55:21 PM PDT by quadrant (1o)
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