Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Hillary Clinton: The Bible is ‘the biggest influence on my thinking’
Life Site News ^ | June 18, 2014 | Ben Jonson

Posted on 06/18/2014 4:37:21 PM PDT by NYer

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hillary Clinton, a likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate who supports abortion-on-demand and redefining marriage, says her thought process is “guided” by the Bible more than any other book or “influence.”

The former first lady made her comments during an interview with the New York Times Sunday Book Review on June 11. When asked about her favorite book, she said, “At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it, and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort, and encouragement.”

However, just last week, she told NPR host Terry Grossu that “too many people [who oppose redefining marriage] believe they have a direct line to the Divine."

Rob Schwarzwalder, senior vice president at Family Research Council, told LifeSiteNews that he wished Mrs. Clinton consistently allowed the Bible to shape her worldview. “Mrs. Clinton is right that the Bible is a source of ‘wisdom, comfort and encouragement.’ However, it is also God’s revelation of Himself in Jesus Christ and of His unchanging moral commands regarding the way we live our lives and the values we should espouse,” he said. “We can hope and pray that Mrs. Clinton will recognize the latter, even as she affirms the former.”

“At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it, and being guided by it." 

Throughout her four decades in the public spotlight, Clinton has tirelessly promoted abortion-on-demand as a fundamental “human right” and the acceptance of homosexual behavior at home and abroad.

She was a decades-long friend and onetime patient of Dr. William F. Harrison, an Arkansas doctor who boasted of committing at least 20,000 abortions. She has referred to herself as ardently “pro-choice.”

She campaigned for her husband to sign executive orders repealing the Mexico City Policy, which barred U.S. funding of abortion advocacy around the world, mere days after his inauguration. She pressured the United Nations to define abortion as a human right at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.

In his second term, President Clinton said that he and Hillary prayed together before he vetoed the national partial birth abortion ban. His successor, George W. Bush, would sign the measure into law in 2003.

Hillary, as junior U.S. senator from New York, voted against ending partial birth abortion, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, parental notification if a minor crosses state lines to have an abortion, and a Constitutional marriage protection amendment. She supported embryonic stem cell research.

As President Obama's secretary of state, she led the Obama administration's international push to normalize homosexual behavior worldwide, placing religious objections to homosexuality in the same category as honor killings and widow burning.

Clinton, who has said she is “really in awe” of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, is expected to be the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bible; clinton; hillary2016; hillarybooktour; hillaryreligion
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 last
To: DoughtyOne

How about Herodias, wife of Herod who beheaded John the Baptist. I think Herodias fits Hillordias to a T.


61 posted on 06/18/2014 8:26:26 PM PDT by annieokie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: NYer

I thought it was the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt?
Isn’t that what she told us back in her ‘glory’ days?


62 posted on 06/18/2014 8:34:22 PM PDT by Vinnie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco
It should also be noted that Hillary played soccer for her high school team back in the late 1950's....(before soccer ever came to this country)

She played High School soccer when she was 12 years old (1959)?

63 posted on 06/18/2014 9:19:01 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor 16: 32)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Graybeard58
I did not read the article (below) but I do remember that she claimed that she tried to join the Marine Corps -- I think she claimed that happened in her late 20s.

from a goggle search:

Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine - The New ... www.nytimes.com/.../hillary-clinton-says-she-once-... The New York Times Jun 15, 1994 - The First Lady has offered a kaleidoscope of images to the public, but today she added the most curious one yet: Private Hillary. Speaking at a ...

64 posted on 06/18/2014 9:31:05 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: NYer

Hillary’s bible:

Matthew, Marx, Alynksy, Lennin


65 posted on 06/18/2014 11:12:00 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: annieokie

There you go. I drew a blank when writing that, but you’re exactly right.

Actually, it was her daughter that demanded the head, at her mother’s request. At least I believe that’s right. Perhaps not.

Oh I remember, the King wanted the daughter to dance for him, and he promised John the Baptist’s head at her request.


66 posted on 06/19/2014 12:31:09 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: NYer

Someone is starting to sound a little desperate.


67 posted on 06/19/2014 7:38:13 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: P-Marlowe

I rather believe the Bible has been her “biggest influence on her thinking” -

she took every precept of the Bible, the Commandments, and the Law,

and adjusted her thinking to the diametric opposite.


68 posted on 06/19/2014 7:41:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson