Posted on 08/21/2009 4:45:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
"For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see the public option."
Yes, it's finally come to this. We've dragged the Almighty Lord into the debate. It's Yahweh or the highway.
This week, President Barack Obama claimed his version of health care reform is "a core ethical and moral obligation," beseeching religious leaders to promote his government-run scheme. Questioning the patriotism of opponents, apparently, wasn't gaining the type of traction advocates of "reform" had hoped.
"I know there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness," Obama said, invoking the frightening specter of the Ten Commandments.
On Team Righteous, we have those who meet their moral obligations; on the other squad, we must have the minions of Beelzebub -- by which, of course, we mean profit-driven, child-killing, mob-inciting insurance companies.
Why wasn't this multidenominational group of pastors, rabbis and other religious leaders offended that a mere earthly servant was summoning the good Lord in an effort to pass legislation? Certainly, one of the most grating habits of the Bush administration was how it framed policy positions in moral absolutes.
As CBS News recently reported, Obama has thrown around the name of God even more often than George W. Bush. Then again, no group couches policy as a moral obligation more than the left. On nearly every question of legislation, there is a pious straw man tugging at the sleeves of the wicked.
What isn't a moral imperative these days? As if they were chiseling commandments into stone tablets, Democrats refer to budgets as "moral documents." Thou shalt compost, or climate change will descend upon the lands and smite the wicked and innocent alike. Extend alms to the downtrodden moneylenders and carmakers, for it is just, and the president commandeth thee.
If the apostate argues that dependency programs keep poor people poor or that progressive environmental policies are ineffective and create poverty or that free will is more important than free stuff, they will be dealt with like the Amorites. And you know what happened to those swine.
Morality -- whether derived from religion or a Starbucks coffee cup -- is only one of the many considerations Americans take into account when thinking about policy. As an atheist, for instance, my core moral concern is that elected officials stop telling me what my core moral concerns should be.
While we have no clue what Jesus would make of a public option, we do have plenty of evidence that government tends to act immorally, corruptly and incompetently -- especially a government with too much power. And the self-righteous elected official who has complete moral certitude on his side also has a tendency to ignore any other concerns. That detail has been painfully obvious in this debate.
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies," wrote C.S. Lewis, a man who knew a thing or two about religion. "The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
We now know that the advocates of government-run health care have full approval of their own consciences. That is surely comforting to them. Now, I don't know about you, but I gladly will champion the policies of any president who can walk on water. Until that time, though, I'll take my chances with blasphemy.
And when the Democrat party, NOW and Planned Parenthood insist that killing the unborn is an essential part of health care for women, this hypocrite will be on their side.
Shame on any so-called “Christians” who serve as his propagandists from their pulpits. God will not be mocked in this way, and they will reap what they sow.
Supposedly the Jewish conference Call was suppose to be secret. One of the Rabbis who said that they played Hitler’s theme song...erased his twitter and said it was all a mistake.
Wonder why that call was so secret and the Christian one was played out for the media.
IMHO, Charity is an individual choice rather than a collective choice.
But to the left, the only approved choices(abortion) are the ones granted by the state.
In Washington D.C., August 20, 200 here is the pseudo-Messiah himself on himself:
In a conference call with largely left-leaning faith leaders yesterday, Obama also used religously-charged terms to dismiss the notion that the government would fund abortion through the new legislation.
"These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation - and that is that we look out for one another, that I am my brother's keeper and I am my sister's keeper," he said.
He also accused opponents of his healthcare plan of spreading "misinformation" and "bearing false witness." “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama went on to say.
"a core ethical and moral obligation"
Given the past record on voting to deny medical care to babies born alive
in botched abortions and appointing a "science czar" who wanted to put
sterilization drugs in the food and water supply, what exactly is his moral authority?
who’s he to ask?
Great little article. Of all the many things about Obama that make me puke, this assumption of the mantle of religious righteousness is right up there at the top.
I thought we weren’t supposed to legislate morality? Wha happen?
My Messiah raised the dead. 0bama can’t even lift the economy.
Oh yeah, well lets see him create life.
Vote for the bill or the messiah will Smite you.
Pray for America and Our Troops
I guess the morality of abortion is above his pay grade, but he is God’s equal in matters of life and death. Hmmm......
I’m not a religious person...but isn’t there something in the good book about being wary of wolves in sheep’s clothing...preaching one thing and doing another? (I’m paraphrasing.)
It looks like this thread died a few hours ago. I'm not the Obamessiah and so won't claim I can bring it back to life even to correct the biblical inaccuracies of the atheist author, but I thought you deserved an answer to your question.
"...isn’t there something in the good book about being wary of wolves in sheep’s clothing...?"
The gospel according to Matthew has the quote from the REAL Messiah:
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
It is standard operating procedure for hypocrites in general and Obama's mentor, Satan, in particular to use a twisted version of God's word for their own evil benefit. So O's misuse of the term 'false prophets' is not surprising.
Immediately after the Lord gives this accurate description of Obama, He tells us how to identify guys like that snake. Christ's advice is to not just believe whatever they say, but rather to watch what it is they do and what are the products of their actions:
"Ye shall know them by their fruits."
For example, Obamalinsky says one thing to make you think he's good: "We are God’s partners in matters of life and death"
But the actual fruits of liberalism in this regard are very far from what God's will is for us: 50 million aborted 'partners' and 'health care' legislation determined to put money and power above individual human lives.
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