[pepsionice]

“unto whom much was earned over sweat, risks, and hard work....not much should be required”

[CitizenUSA]

Satan liked to quote scripture out of context, too.

Psalm 91: 11-12

11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

[beaversmom]

Isn’t there a commandment about this? Something about carrying the Lord’s name for the purposes of evil.

[EBH]

As I posted earlier today about Rome's decline...

One needs to deeply consider why Jesus overturned the tables at the temple and why he said he did so...

Jesus would have never stood there at a PRAYER breakfast with a money-changer or thief.

[silverleaf]

There is something jarring about this pretentious fraud quoting scripture about loving his neighbor as himself, when all of his african family lives in poverty or in taxpayer-supported public housing

He could probably build his brother George a better hut just for the cost of one pair of moochelle’s designer sneakers

He could have built a whole village for the costs of moochelle’s vacation to Spain or Africa or Hawaii

[Jack Hammer]

Marx and Obama are pretty much the same, so there’s really only a single alternative.

[ETL]

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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

[ETL]

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

["(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro's first wife."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart]

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

[tflabo]

If a Republican president spoke about a scriptural reference you can expect the long knives of the left would be waving in defense about so-called ‘separation of church/state issues’.

[Popman]

As a Christian, I am not offended by Obama using the words of Jesus to make political points———I’m surprised it took him so long to do it.....

Here’s a man who rarely goes to church, spend twenty years listening to black liberation theology using the word of God to make political points?

Color me surprised....not

At least he isn’t carrying around the Clinton extra large Bible and waving it at reporters

[ronnie raygun]

A muslim posing as a Christian funny! And Christians believing him even funnier

[ETL]

From The American Thinker
May 28, 2008

Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx

Just one nugget from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Instruction on Certain Aspects of the ‘Theology of Liberation': "...it would be illusory and dangerous to ignore the intimate bond which radically unites them liberation theologies), and to accept elements of the marxist analysis without recognizing its connections with the (Marxist) ideology, or to enter into the practice of the class-struggle and of its marxist interpretation while failing to see the kind of totalitarian society to which this process slowly leads."--Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect, now Pope Benedict XVI; written in 1984

Understanding that black liberation theology is Marxism dressed up to look like Christianity helps explain why there is no conflict between Cone's "Christianity" [i.e. 'reverend Wright's thing] and Farrakhan's "Nation of Islam." They are two prophets in the same philosophical (Marxist) pod, merely using different religions as backdrops for their black-power aims.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html

[A_perfect_lady]

Anyone looking in the Bible for quotes about Jesus telling people to feed the poor and have compassion will find plenty of them. Neither the Left nor the Right has any corner market on Jesus quotes, but frankly, the Left is probably closer to his teachings than the Right is.

[KeyLargo]

What if we evaluated President Obama as Candidate Obama?

Would he be the best choice to lead his party and this country?

Well, let’s see, he doesn’t have a record of creating jobs.

Of course, he cheered the latest jobs report saying unemployment rate fell to 8.3% - the lowest of his Presidency.

But he won’t tell you over a million Americans fell out of the labor market, and the percent of people in the workforce is now at the lowest point in decades.

The biggest decline on record came under Obama.

He won’t tell you around 13 million Americans are officially out of work.

And, almost 2 million fewer people are employed since the President signed his signature economic stimulus law, and declared 2010 to be the “summer of recovery.”

When it comes to gaffes, well the President has made a few of them.

Today in Virginia he said the economy is “growing stronger” and the “recovery is speeding up”!

Speeding up? Is he joking?

Last year’s economic growth was a paltry 1.7%. That’s almost half the rate of the previous year.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke just yesterday warned about continued weakness in the economy, and said the outlook for growth is “uncertain” at best.

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2012/02/03/obamas-jobless-claims#ixzz1lQRt9l6m

[Nea Wood]

One of the best articles I’ve seen on the subject. Great comments from Freepers, too.