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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Nathan Tabor :: Townhall.com Columnist
Real Christianity for Obama?
by Nathan Tabor
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In fact, Bush’s father, former President George H. W. Bush, once said, “There are many who presume to speak for the evangelical movements, but surely Dr. Rogers was one of the handfuls who truly represented them. He was a great man with a lot of influence and a lot of wisdom.”

Evidence of that wisdom is a Rogers’s quote that has been circulating through cyberspace. Apparently, he said it in 1984. On January 14, 2009, Representative Steve King of Iowa posted the quote to the Congressional Record. I think the quote speaks for itself:

“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving it. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody.

“And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

I hope President Obama is listening.

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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 13, 2009 - 3:45 PM EST
To Cam from CA -- Post #3 - Second part

But let's give you credit for going through the trouble of extracting one verse out of a book and goint the full length by writing it here.

Unfortunately, your exegetic comprehension leaves sooooo much to be desired. The verse only states that God is the one in charge, He gives health, ability and desire to seek opportunity and produce wealth to those who actually get off their rear end and work. In short, man depends ultimately on God's will, not his own. So who is the one who "don't get it?"

The problem with liberals, as much as with non-denominational fundamentalism, is the fact that there's no cohesion, no doctrine that binds anyone, no authority. Liberals want to interpret the Constitution to fit their agenda, fundies interpret the bible the same way and for the same reasons. Everyone's a Constitutional lawyer, everyone a Pope and ultimately NO ONE agrees on anything, even on the urgent need to save the country from the predatory agenda of the subversive communist idiot in chief and his cadre of sycophants.
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Date: Apr 13, 2009 - 3:39 PM EST
To Cam fro CA -- Post #3
**As for "taking from the people who work", here's the part of the Bible conservatives just don't get.

Deuteronomy 8:17 You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me." 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.**

Isn't it amazing how conveniently ELASTIC the words of the bible can be when used by liberals! The fact is that one can take just about any verse out of context to justify any idiocy that comes to mind.

Your 'brilliance' in quoting a full verse has to be tempered by your inability to 'spin' it into something... when it says NOTHING in regards to the subject matter at hand, which, if you'd care to know, that creating class envy and taking away from those who work, create and produce to give to professional societal drones creates no change, no wealth, is immoral and is nothing less than artificially legalized highway robbery!

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