Pelosi Says She Heard Disputed Bible Verse from Priest

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[Sub-Driver]

Pelosi Says She Heard Disputed Bible Verse from Priest By Pete Winn CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer April 29, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Fox News last week that Pelosi heard the disputed Bible "passage" she used in her April 22 Earth Day message from a priest in San Francisco.

Brit Hume reported last Thursday on "Special Report with Brit Hume" that Pelosi's office had told Fox News that the Speaker had "heard a priest quote the verse many years ago during a mass in San Francisco."

On Thursday, Friday, and again on Monday, however, the Speaker's office did not respond to requests for comment made by Cybercast News Service , which first reported on Wednesday, April 23 that biblical scholars have cast doubt on the authenticity of the passage.

In her news release, Pelosi said the quote - 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us' - came from the Old Testament.

Biblical scholars told Cybercast News Service that the quote does not appear anywhere in the Bible--Old or New Testament. Moreover, they say nothing similar can be found in Scripture.

[oneamericanvoice]

Just then amnesia sets in for the first female Speaker of the House. Probably because she meets soooo many priests.

[Crim]

The King James is the last version directly translated from hebrew IIRC...

[MeanWestTexan]

Sucks to be a mormon.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Fox News last week that Pelosi heard the disputed Bible "passage" she used in her April 22 Earth Day message from a priest in San Francisco.

People hear all sorts of crazy things during an exorcism, though. ;)

[50sDad]

She fell asleep at mass and dreamed it.

She drank a lot of ice tea that Sunday, and misheard a real quote over the faulty PA in the church bathroom.

[Billthedrill]

...biblical scholars have cast doubt on the authenticity of the passage.

"Doubt"? What is she telling us, just because nobody can find it doesn't mean it's not there?

[cake_crumb]

Was it Reverend Wright in disguise? HE makes up Bible "verses" whenever it suits the need too. And he taught Obama everything he "knows" about God.

[MeanWestTexan]

No, there are numerous more recent from the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic.

The NIV is probably the best that is still fairly easy to understand and not terribly political -— or if political/disptued, gives full disclosure of the disputes in footnotes.

[Sig Sauer P220]

From a priest as he was conducting a failed exorcisism on the she-devil.

[cake_crumb]

"I hope she has blamed a dead priest who can’t defend himself."

She probably doesn't recall his name...

[Tex Pete]

Except the King James wasn’t directly translated.

The dear old King had a little say as to what actually made the cut in his Bible. It is pretty close to the original manuscripts, but he did edit a bit.

There have been more recent translations, as well.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Beat you by two minutes. ;)

[353FMG]

Did you really have to show that face?

[Eye On The Left]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Fox News last week that Pelosi heard the disputed Bible "passage" she used in her April 22 Earth Day message from a priest in San Francisco. ... Biblical scholars told Cybercast News Service that the quote does not appear anywhere in the Bible--Old or New Testament. Moreover, they say nothing similar can be found in Scripture.

April 22 Earth Day? The passage then probably came from the Communist Manifesto, not the Bible! :)

Isn't it amazing, Earth and Lenin were both born on April 22.

Vladimir Lenin
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
In office: November 8, 1917 – January 21, 1924

Born April 22, 1870
Died January 21, 1924
Political party Bolshevik Party
Profession Politician, revolutionary

". . . on April 22, 1970, Earth Day was held, one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy. . . "
--American Heritage Magazine, October 1993

Founded on Lenin's 100th birthday? --yeah, it's a "coincidence". LOL.

Earth Day 1970 (the very first Earth Day):
"The nationwide event included opposition to the Vietnam War on the agenda, but this was thought to detract for the environmental message.
Pete Seeger was a keynote speaker and performer at the event held in Washington DC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#Earth_Day_1970

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetwork.org:
Profile: PETE SEEGER

*Musician, folksinger, songwriter, and political activist

*Joined the Communist Party in 1942

*"I'm still a Communist" -- Pete Seeger, 2004

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1619

Also see:
America’s Most Successful Communist [Pete Seeger]
by Howard Husock

"The Popular Front sought to enlist Western artists and intellectuals, some of them not party members but 'fellow travelers,' to use art, literature, and music to insinuate the Marxist worldview into the broader culture. The murals of Diego Rivera, the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Howard Fast—all exemplified this approach. It’s an irony that communists should seek to change the culture, of course, since Marxism holds that culture is merely a reflection of underlying economic structures, whose transformation will bring about capitalism’s inevitable collapse."

http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_urbanities-communist.html

[contemplator]

Maybe it was this Priest?

[Elpasser]

The “verse” from many years ago particularly stuck in her mind ‘cause it was the last time she went to church.

[bmwcyle]

The Priest set me up. /sarcasm

[Spokane]

Come on... give her the benefit of doubt... There might have been sniper and rocket fire in the area making it difficult to hear.

[95 Bravo]

Here’s a verse for ya, Nancy-
Rom 1:25 “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”
There’s modern environmentalism, in a nutshell. They’re the new Druids.

[Crim]

I stand corrected...