Posted on 08/19/2009 2:14:54 PM PDT by pissant
A reader points out that President Obama's call with the rabbis today -- as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline's and other clerics' Twitter feeds -- freights health care reform with a great deal of religious meaning, and veers into the blend of policy and faith that outraged liberals in the last administration.
"We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama said, according to Moline (paging Sarah Palin...), quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided "Who shall live and who shall die."
The president ended the call by wishing the rabbis "shanah tovah," or happy new year -- in reference to the High Holidays a month from now.
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Does he use a teleprompter when he’s on the phone?
“Eyebrows were also raised by the choice of hold music that played to rabbis before the call began.
“First mistake,” Moline tweeted, as he waited for the call to begin. “Music on hold is ‘Deutschland uber Alles,’ “ a classical German anthem, the lyrics to which in part say, “Preserve and protect our Kaiser, our land.”
(The music was chosen by the company carrying the conference call, not the White House or the RAC.)”
From the WashingtonJewishWeek article link referenced earlier...
It is still the German National Anthem, and is played at any formal greeting of German leaders, also at the Olympic Games, every time the Germans win a Gold Medal.
Got it. Thanks.
The nuns used to tell us that we were God’s partners in creation - in having a baby. THAT IS IT! (Irish nuns - mid-60’s- that’s as close as they could describe “the marriage act”)
“First mistake,” Moline tweeted, as he waited for the call to begin. “Music on hold is ‘Deutschland uber Alles,’ “ a classical German anthem, the lyrics to which in part say, “Preserve and protect our Kaiser, our land.”
Wow... just... wow...
“”...the choice of hold music that played to rabbis before the call began.””
Coincidence? I don’t think so. This is unfriggin’ believable!
Tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ...
IMO, Partners with God? God has no partners. God doesn’t need any “HELP”.. God is a Trinity. God has children whom He has called.
to say something this foolish requires one to not ever have opened a Bible! What a fool, what a fool, thinking he is equal with our Lord. what a fool
GOD decides. End of story. Jews are under the admonition that NO life is to be taken by human hands that might otherwise be saved. That includes abortion. Abortion is MURDER.
Note that Ariel Sharon is STILL on life support.
You pray for sinners. You pray for the sick. You ask the LORD’S intervention in their healing, but in the end, “O LORD, THY WILL BE DONE.”
There is only one divergence from this. A MURDERER who can not asked his victim for forgiveness is to be put to death.
Rahm and Ezekiel took him aside for a little Hebrew school...
My God. Fellini was an amateur.
Now THAT's funny! LOL!! And Lina Wertmuller, too.
I have heard the phrase, "co-creators with Christ" coming from some fringe so-called Catholic groups and in the so-called Unity Church of Christ. That's like a house cleaner calling himself an architect and city planner.
The Book of Jubilees speaks of two heavenly tablets or books: a Book of Life for the righteous, and a Book of Death for those that walk in the paths of impurity and are written down on the heavenly tablets as adversaries (of God).
Also, according to ib. xxxvi. 10, one who contrives evil against his neighbor will be blotted out of the Book of Remembrance of men, and will not be written in the Book of Life, but in the Book of Perdition.
In Dan. vii. 10 and Enoch xlvii. 3 “the Ancient of days” is described as seated upon His throne of glory with “the Book” or “the Books of Life” (”of the Living”) opened before Him. So are, according to Enoch civ. 1, the righteous “written before the glory of the Great One,” and, according to Enoch cviii. 3, the transgressors “blotted out of the Book of Life and out of the books of the holy ones.” To this Book of Life reference is made also in Hermas (Vision i. 3; Mandate viii.; Similitude ii.); in Rev. iii. 5, xiii. 8, xvii. 8, xx. 12-15, where “two Books” are spoken of as being “opened before the throne, the Book of Life, and the Book of Death, in which latter the unrighteous are recorded together with their evil deeds, in order to be cast into the lake of fire.”
The Pharisaic school taught that on the first day of each year (Rosh ha-Shanah) GOD sits in judgment over His creatures and has the Books of Life and Death opened, together with the books containing the records of the righteous and the unrighteous. And out of the middle state of the future judgment, there arose the idea of a third class of men who are held in suspense.
It’s very difficult to take a muslim to Cheder.
Forgot my sarcasm tag...
Obama is a very stupid man. So now we have Obama, some rabbis and some bureaucrats on the death panel. LOL, he's as dumb as Biden.
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