Soopermexican:
Today the media is all in a tizzy about Mitt Romney implying anyone wants to take “God” off our coinage. Of course, there are liberals who have sued to do just that, but what does this have to do with Obama?!
Here are his comments from CSN news:
“We’ve been — in the House of Representatives, what have you guys been debating? John, you’ve been debating a commemorative coin for baseball? You had legislationreaffirming that ‘In God We Trust’ is our motto? That’s not putting people back to work.
“I trust in God,” Obama said, “but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work.”
Asked later by a reporter if it was “a bit much” for Obama to bring God into the jobs debate, White House Spokesman Jay Carney responded, “Well, I believe the phrase from the Bible is, ‘The Lord helps those who help themselves.’ And I think the point the President is making is that we should — we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people.”
By the way, Carney’s attempt to justify his comments were a big fail too.
He had to misquote it. Real Scripture causes him to self immolate.
Also during his DNC speech Obama said this:
Actually there is a dividing in Scripture between ”sheep” and goats,” no such thing as a universal hope.
Hope is offered to all mankind, but what the individual must do is not “vote for Obama,” but rather follow Jesus.
There is a man in Pakistan who exemplifies living a life of hope.
He bravely changed his religion from Islam to Christianity.
The Pakistanis gave him the death penalty for ”blasphemy against Islam.”
That is the law in Pakistan and he knew it.
He accepted that.
While he was in prison the WORLD* shamed Pakistan into letting him go after 3 years in prison on death row.
That is what the Bible means when it says we have a future filled with hope.
It doesn’t always work out with longer life on earth, however.
Rome asked all people to throw a pinch of incense onto a bust of their ruler.
Christians refused to do such an act of worship.
The Romans enjoyed their deaths at the arena.
* Among the shamers was our US Congress.
But Obama was silent.
That is not in the Bible.
Goes to show you how ignorant Obama and team are.
@proof, #1:
If you’re going to make a big deal about Obama and biblical propriety, maybe you’d better take a really close look at what’s in the Mormon scriptures. Assuming, of course, that any of this stuff really matters to you.
Obama is completely correct. At a time when effective government is most needed, the current republican majority House has been one of the most singularly useless legislative bodies in the history of the United States. That’s hardly a minority opinion. They’ve presently got a job approval rating of only 10 percent.
“Life is hard; its harder when you’re stupid.” John Wayne…
Make sense?
These Democrats don’t believe in God and they want you to not believe too. As it happens I just got home from church…in my Catholic parish we are making sure all who attend are registered to vote. We know what’s on the line this time…if Obama is reelected it’s not just our first amendment rights they are coming after, they will be coming after our churches…through the IRS and HHS.
These people hate Christians…make no mistake about this. They will drive us to the margins of society by using the courts and bueaucracy…and when they’ve done that…they will attack us personally. Can see it coming.
@Greg The objection isn’t about theological purity, it’s hypocrisy. We do not live in a theocracy. I don’t choose a president based on theological purity. JFK was a Catholic, Jimmy Carter was a Baptist. While I believe Jimmy was closer to my theology, JFK had a better grasp on economics.
I don’t believe that any supposed Christian faith on the part of any Democrat politicians has benefited the country. Given the constraints of the Constitution, I don’t see that Mitt’s Mormon faith will cause it detriment.
Here’s the difference: Mitt is not a Presbyterian who claims to be a Mormon for some political advantage. He is who he is. The Democrat party is a home for secular humanism. The whole kerfluffle over God in the platform demonstrated that at least half of the delegates were happy with removing the most innocuous of references to a deity, but the party bosses decided it would hurt them at the ballot box, so they rammed through a bit of window dressing. The term “in sheep’s clothing” comes to mind!
@Greg:
Far as I know, Latter Day Saints never claim their Book of Mormon IS the Bible, they quote it and sometimes the two are very similar.
But they also use the Bible, IIRC.
It would be like when Catholics use those extra books of the Bible they have.
They don’t match up perfectly, either.
The numbers for Evangelicals supporting Romney is staggering, btw.
Above 80% last I saw.
Mia Love, who is a Republican running for Congress and who spoke at the RNC, is a Latter Day Saint.
@VoteOutIncumbents, #6:
Have you ever heard of the Christian left? As you’re a Catholic, I would think you might have, at some point.
Sister Simone Campbell calls GOP budget ‘immoral’
A very modern ”sister,” this Sister Simone Campbell, Greg.
Legs exposed, forearms, too.
Hair exposed!
Make up!
But she’s probably the best the Dems could do in trying to get someone with some level of credentials to go against Ryan.
As IF Ryan’s plan is the Romney/Ryan plan, anyway!
It is Not!
But Straw Men are the only targets Dems know they can hit.
That’s because Dems create each of those Straw Men before they knock than down!
When was the last time you saw a Catholic nun wearing an old-time habit, outside of a Blues Brothers movie? Times have changed.
The right doesn’t own religion any more than it owns America.
@Greg:
You’re so right, Greg, times have changed.
A recent report done by the Catholic Church on the study of new entries into the women’s religious orders show they are opting for the more traditional orders that offer them the wearing of the habit of their order, convent life and more devotion to prayer, instead of the orders overtaken by the former flower-child women of the ’60s’s-70’s.
Sister Flower Child is no longer representative. And she goes against the very vows she took. All she is looking for is her 15 minutes of fame.
@Greg:
I see them all the time where I live, Greg. There is a convent close and a women’s Catholic college that employs nuns in it’s staff. Kind of a stupid comment to make if you never get out beyond your own sense of self-import.