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Via CNN:
(CNN) — Speaking to Sunday church congregants in New Orleans, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama invoked Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount days before the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
“Getting ready to talk to you today, I recall what Jesus said at the end of the Sermon on the Mount,” Obama said at New Orleans’ First Emmanuel Baptist Church. “He said, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.”
“The rains descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. But it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock,” he continued.
That rock, he said, was a principal of brotherhood exemplified by the church during Hurricane Katrina — but not the federal government.
“Something was wrong in America. Our foundation wasn’t built on the rock,” he said.
Who knew you shouldn’t be depending on the federal government to take care of you? Honestly, Obama is seriously on to something groundbreaking.
Obama then went on to argue that when Jesus returns to earth, he’ll approve of and begin performing the miracle of abortion. Seriously though, how does a man like Obama who believes in unfettered access to abortion as a means of birth control have the right to invoke the words of Jesus Christ? Please, explain it to me!
It disgusts me how Democratic politicians, only during election season, tend to become devout people of faith and spend more time in church then any other time in their life. Obama is a hypocrite in the plainest sense. He claims to be some kind of Christian yet he supports abortion, how does that conundrum exist together? I don’t even have to go beyond that one issue because I would like anyone to argue with me that Jesus, were he on earth today, would support killing unborn babies because people are irresponsible. Go head, try to argue that with a straight face.
It’s one thing if you call yourself agnostic, then I don’t care what you support. However, for Obama and others to claim to be Christians and then refuse to follow Christian principles is sickening to me.
He’s so divine:
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I am a Christian and I am pro-choice. Jesus would not advocate abortion, but he would most likely understand the predicament of the mother and her lack of choices that forces her to consider an abortion as her only option. Instead of fighting about being pro-life or pro-choice why don’t citizens of America do something productive like fighting for the advocacy of children’s welfare. If people worked towards goals like affordable health and child care then maybe women could *afford* to have children and provide the kind of life for their child every parent strives for. In addition if the religious right wants to be pro-life on the one hand they shouldn’t stigmatize children borne out of wed-lock on the other. To create a pro-life atmosphere one cannot restrict the liberties of woman’s body, but create an environment that is conducive to the growth and promotion of life for the sake of itself.
I don’t know if it’s a question of advocating abortion or seeing it as a form of murder. Abortion is never the only option, that’s the line groups like Planned Parenthood would have people believe. It’s basically the convenient option for some women.
That’s where you and I would differ. You are saying that abortion is a right, which it is not. As a Christian wouldn’t you say it’s God’s right to choose life? Or does your view on abortion trump your religious beliefs?
I agree that in some situations abortion seems a responsible answer. For instance, in rape cases, cases where the baby might have physical problems. But it still comes down to the fact that people should not have the power to take a life of a helpless person. How is this any different than murder? God gave that baby life for a reason and only he knows that reason. Giving a mother, or anyone, right to take that baby interferes with that reasoning.
Many Christians are pro-choice, and for many different reasons, but for many it’s because they believe the scientific evidence about the foetus. They don’t advocate infanticide or late-term abortions, but they think that the foetus at an early stage is a group of cells with potential to grow a person, like the separated sperm and egg.
It’s not un-Christian to be pro-choice, nor to be against, unless the reasons underlying that belief are themselves un-Christian. There are lines of reasoning for and against which seem compatible with Christianity and its foundation in Christian love, of God, life, children, mothers, fathers, and the community.
Everyone does NOT agree with the notion that ‘life begins at conception’.
While an acorn has the Potential to become an oak tree, it is NOT an oak tree. An embryo without a brain stem is not a baby.
Ah yes, the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not prematurely remove a fetus from thine uterus, be it in the first, second or third trimesters. My favorite thing about this story is the sheer arrogance of believing you can make an accurate judgment about someone’s faith or lack thereof based on one position never addressed in the Bible.
Sanctity of life is all in the Bible. Read it sometime.
That’s true, but abortion isn’t and this issue is a lot more complicated than life = good and death = bad.
Have anyone ever thought that Jesus could have been a liberal. His practices during his time were not the norm as of the conservative Christians (the Pharsees)..and look what they did to him. He healed the sick on a Sabath. That’s a no, no. He befriended a prositute and confronted her accusers. Oh my!!! He did not pass or change the laws of the land nor voted for a candidate who believe what he believes but was an example on how we should live. He showed us how to pray for our leaders of our nation; not to place our spin on an candidate to influence people votes.
Jesus did not have clot for his self interest nor influence the politicans of that day. He just preach the gospel and shared love. Question still stand: He could have been a liberal. He (Jesus) was for the poor and the underdog. Hello, what are we missing Christians?