[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Quote of the Day by First_Salute

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Our family used to watch Fox News and O'Reilly together after dinner (including kids) to encourage discussions about some of the current issues. O'Reilly was our favorite...for a while. Something has happened.

He is wrong on the homosexual point. All Catholics believe that the Bible in its entirety is 100% "the inspired Word of God."

If they do not believe that, they are not true Catholics. O'Reilly can not pick and choose the pieces he likes. Hating homosexuals is wrong, but the sin is to be hated as an abomination.

Suffice it to say, no more O'Reilly in this house (and I suspect a lot of others).

[Texas_Jarhead]

I'm glad to hear from him on that whole event

[MEGoody]

I still like to watch the O'Reilly show as compared to 'news' shows on the networks, but O'Reilly has never claimed to be a traditional Catholic or Christian. In fact, I've never considered him either except in name only. The sad thing is, he is like far too many in this country who slap that name tag on themselves. But we all know that those who claim to be someone they are not usually end up in mental institutions.

[chachacha]

The number of replys to this post sure is an indication of how few people will be in heaven.

Spoken by him not me!

Thank You Stephen for standing up and looking up.

[chachacha]

The number of replys to this post sure is an indication of how few people will be in heaven.

Spoken by him not me!

Thank You Stephen for standing up and looking up.

[Texbob]

It sounds like O'Reilly is a Queer.

[buffyt]

I saw that interview. O'Reilly used to be very much anti-gay. Now he isn't. I saw him in person in Houston at KPRC Expo several years ago. He was very negative about gays. I don't know what happened. Maybe a friend or relative of his turned out to be gay. I don't watch him very often anymore. We used to watch him every night. His ego is so huge now. He is a legend in his own mind. Maybe it is partly his NY attitude and accent, but other news people are from NY and they aren't so irritating. He is such a blowhard now. I usually just have the radio on conservative talk radio in LA now, rarely turn the TV on at all.

[Savage Beast]

"It all soon became too very clear. This was not going to be an interview, but the 'Stephen Bennett Roast.'"

At that point, why didn't you just leave? You didn't have to stay there.

You might have uttered something like, "I'm not going to be a part of this charade," before leaving.

[gg188]

Key:

"...the hatred this world has toward the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

That says it all.

[exmarine]

Let me get this straight (pardon the pun): A Yankees rootern or an Eminem acolyte is a "fan," but if you believe in the inerrant Word of God, you are a "fanatic"?

O'Reilly is way off on some of his views. He is always ranting about "right" and "wrong" and knows they exist, but doesn't know their source. As a result, he has a hit and miss morality. When it comes to gay adoption, he has a "pragmatic" view, which is totally ineffectual in assessing long-term consequences. He says he is a catholic, but that means nothing unless he has a relationship with the living God. He rejects the bible as an authority and replaces it with himself.

[Aquinasfan]

O'Reilly's huge Achilles heel is homosexuality and religion. He doesn't understand the obvious natural law arguments against homosexuality and is equally confused regarding his own religion. Even worse, he revels in his ignorance. He seems to make no effort to understand his own religion, never mind anyone elses. And he seems quite content to slap obnoxious labels on those who have a greater understanding of their religion.

[Jim Scott]

I saw the interview and O'Reilly angered me with his absurd definition of what the bible is about (only the Gospels are truth, the rest are made-up stories) and his treatment of Stephen Bennett. It was an ambush but Stephen didn't handle it well; he should have stopped trying to quote scripture and instead, challenged O'Reilly as to why he dismisses all but four books of the bible when his stated religion accepts all the books as the Word of God.

I've come to this conclusion about Bill O'Reilly; he can be useful to conservatives in some instances but he's no conservative and he's no use at all on anything moral. He's bought into the homosexual agenda and now defends gays, except that he thinks they are a little too 'forward' with proclaiming their sexuality. Fine. He can think what he wants but his angry dismissal of Bennett as a religious fanatic shows that O'Reilly isn't all that comfortable with his pro-gay stands when he has to demonize and name-call a sincere man who believes otherwise.

I don't use TV commentators as my guide for anything so O'Reilly is not a big 'factor' in my life, but Bill O'Reilly is certainly going downhill in many respects. I don't think he's any more abrasive than he always was, but he doesn't wear well over time. His religious 'beliefs' are certainly music to the ears of many agnostic/atheist types and those who play at religion as long as it doesn't intefere with anything they want to do or make them feel guilty in any way. So be it, at least Bill isn't pretending too be a religious man any more, or if he is, the mask is off.

[truthandlife]

Very sad indeed about Mr. O'Reilly. I predict this will be the mindset of the majority of Americans in another 10 years or so. Every Christian in America who believes that homosexuality is wrong will be persecuted beyond belief. It is starting to happen now. If you would like to know where we have gone and are going as a nation you can read Romans 1:21-31:

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

[syriacus]

I wonder if Bill listened to his teachers during any theology or religion classes he took while he was a student.

O'Reilly really showed his stupidity by engaging in an argument in an area (Scripture) where he obviously knows very little.

He should be ashamed of his poor performance.