...Those who hold a narrower and more exclusionary view have the burden of explaining why we
should divide humanity into those who have moral value and those who do not and why their
particular choice of where to draw that line can be sustained in a pluralistic society. Such views pose
a serious threat to the dignity and rights of other poor and vulnerable members of the human family
who need and deserve our respect and protection.
While in past centuries biological knowledge was often inaccurate, modern science leaves no excuse
for anyone to deny the humanity of the unborn child. Protection of innocent human life is not an
imposition of personal religious conviction but a demand of justice. (End of statement)
You start feeling sorry for old Joe. It ain't like the old times. Hypocrisy is getting harder and
harder to practice these days. When your bishops have to not only explain the basic tenants of
Catholicism to you, but also basic American history and government to a US senator and VP
candidate, you know you have got a winner on your hands.
But it isn't just Barak, Biden, Pelosi, Kennedy, Guliani, etc. who are stomping all over the concepts
of Christianity and Western Civilization, it is the entire liberal/secular elites. On the floor of the
House of Representatives liberals feel no unease in using Christianity, whose followers number some
70% or more of the population, to score political points. From the Michelle Malkin Blog:
Rep. Steve Cohen (TN) on the floor of the House- "I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that the parties
have differences. But if you want change, you want the Democratic Party. Barack Obama was a
community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker." The sound bite is also on You Tube.
Get it? Barak is synonymous with Jesus. Both are down with the same things. Both see the world
the same way. Vote for Barak because he and Jesus are tight
On the other hand, Pontius Pilate was a governor, He had Jesus killed. Sarah Palin is a governor.
Therefore, Sarah Palin = Pontius Pilate. So, you can vote for Jesus/Obama or you can vote for
Palin/Pilate who had him whacked.
On one hand you can be gobsmacked** this Congressman was so completely tasteless to insult
millions of Christians with his casual perversion of Christianity; or on the other you can have fun
slamming his softball sneer back over the net. Let’s try a few for the secular socialists, shall we?***
1. Maybe the comparison is accurate. Palin put Obama’s ratings to death. But three days later they
haven’t risen again.
2. How come the left demands a separation of church and state, yet they will use Jesus to score
political points whenever they feel like it?
3. Jesus turned water into wine, healed the sick, raised the dead, and took all of mankind's sins away
on the cross. Obama scored a bigger yard with Rezko, funneled money with former terrorist Ayers,
and represented slumlords. Just a little shaky there on that whole side of the analogy.
4. Jesus didn't organize anything. He was never in a gay pride or green pride parade. He never
worked for a political machine. He never turned out the vote. He said render onto Caesar what is
Caesars. That wouldn't get him hired in Chicago.
5. We put Jesus to death, not Pilate. He called for Jesus to be released. The crowd, egged on by the
community organizers of priests, called for Christ's death.
6. Sarah Palin is not an elitist. She is not from the Washington -Ivy League- privileged set. That is
why she is popular. She is a real everyday American. We like her better than the other three on the
ticket combined. So comparing her to Pontius Pilate means, Congressman Cohen, your seat will be
open next election. Great going champ.
Finally, while the preceding responses were fun, they miss the real point. The real point is Christ
isn't, and wasn't, a social activist, a historical figure, just some guy with good karma, a philosopher,
a community organizer, a Marxist, a feminist, or a big Democrat supporter. He is GOD. He is the
son of God and he is also God. He is as real now as he was two thousand years ago when he took
mortal form to save us all. Most Americans profess that belief. This is still an overwhelmingly
Christian nation. So if Congressman Cohen wants to indicate there is a difference between the
parties, he’s right. The Democratic Party and the left feel that religion is something we rubes cling to
in rural areas. They will use it when they want to get ahead (Jesus as Union Propaganda) but they
don’t respect the principles of the religion or the intelligence of the people who practice that religion.
The Republican Party respects the beliefs of the American people (Christian and non Christian) and
would see religion back in it's proper place in the fabric of our country. So thank you Congressman
Cohen for providing such a telling example of the difference between the two competing
ideals.
* When thinking about Congressman Cohen's reference to his party and Jesus/Pontius Pilate it is as if
he got it almost exactly backwards. Why Pilate condemned himself is because he allowed an
innocent man be put to death because the crowd wanted it. He washed his hands before the crowd
to say he wouldn't be responsible for the death of an innocent human being. He would allow it, he
would make sure it happened, but he wouldn't accept the responsibility. But for two thousand years
everyone, even 'ardent practicing Catholics', know Pilate sealed his fate with the crucifixion of
Christ.
With the Democratic party holding Roe v. Wade as sacred and the foundation of their party, they
condemn millions of innocent babies to death. They wash their hands with the phrases 'we want
abortion to be rare' and they 'cannot say when life begins', but liberals make sure abortion is legal and
they fight to use tax dollars to fund abortion on demand. They too seal their fate. It's why most
liberals cannot believe in God. Because if God is real....they will be accountable and they cannot
allow themselves to consider this.
**Gobsmacked. It means stunned, surprised. To the English the ‘gob’ is your mouth and
‘smacked’ is, well, smacked. So it means you were so surprised or shocked it was as if the person
hit you in the mouth. The English have a way with the language named after them.
*** There is a general consensus coming from the blogs and the radio for the comments. They
were simply distilled here into a few select thoughts. You could say they were plagiarized. Then it
would be: The Quiet Conservative= Biden.
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