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Lawrence O’Donnell Is Biblically Ignorant and Barack Obama Comes Out In Favor of HIGHER Gas Prices #EERS

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 26th, 2011 at 07:00 PM  | 

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Lawrence O’Donnell today decided to lecture Rush Limbaugh about Jesus Christ and hellishly falls on his face.

Barack Obama came out in favor of higher gas prices today and his press secretary got all defensive over whether or not Obama is a Christian.

We’ll discuss all this and more tonight on the Erick Erickson Show on WSB starting at 7:05 p.m. ET.

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  • http://jhpruitt.blogtownhall.com/ kipling

    Here is the article from Newsbusters: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/04/26/msnbcs-odonnell-slams-limbaugh-biblically-ignorant-goes-contort-script

    All of the Scriptures reference by O’Donnell are taken out of context. He also substitutes devotion and obedience to God for devotion and obedience to the state.

    Someone should remind O’Donnell about what Jesus said of people quoting Scripture out of context to mislead others.

  • Raven
  • msctex

    Obama sees all this as ultimately working towards the Good. He’s nuts, of course, but it is the only explanation short of genuinely dangerous stupidity which can account for his actions (and inactions).

  • Ausonius

    See:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-reissues-call-to-end-apf-3308205307.html?x=0&.v=1

    He wants to raise taxes on oil companies, which will thereby raise gasoline prices at the pump.

    Connected to this is his refusal to allow increased domestic production, which is also keeping prices high.

    But he wants this to happen, as part of his plan to make America a 17th-rate country, “leading from behind” as one of his aides was quoted today in the NY Times.

  • wrenhal

    Is there a way to get podcasts of this show???? I may be blind but I haven’t seen any listing on the WSB page for downloads.

  • kfwmcc

    Here are 3 of the passages he referenced. What context do you speak of?

    Those who give to the least of these(poor) were giving to me(Jesus), and shall go to heaven, those who don’t give to the least of these will go to hell.

    It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy person to go to heaven.

    Those who do not give everything they have cannot be my(Jesus’) disciple.

  • rogershru2

    Jesus tells us we must give to the poor. He tells the rich man he must give it all because he is trying to help him overcome his love of money that is keeping him from following Jesus. Elsewhere he tells a tax collector to give up half. But nowhere in these texts does Jesus indicate he is talking about giving to the government. Taxation has nothing to do with it. Personal charity certainly emphasized throughout the New Testament, primarily within the church and only to those unable to work. What one does with one’s own resources is a critical part of one’s devotion to Christ, but the state has nothing to do with it.

  • altexas

    can be found here http://feeds.wsbradio.com/TheErickEricksonShow and on itunes here http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-erick-erickson-show/id415779787

  • kfwmcc

    O’Donnell’s point is that Limbaugh’s and others’ favorite idea that
    ‘we shouldn’t help provide for the the poor cause they are just lazy if we provide for them they’ll be encouraged to leech off others’ argument doesn’t fit with Jesus teachings, as Limbaugh seemed to suggest.

  • rogershru2

    We’re talking about two separate things. Government sponsored charity is slavery because there is no accountability for those who could otherwise take care of themselves. We are commanded to help the sick, the orphans, the widows, those in true need. On the other hand “if a man will not work, neither let him eat.” Private charity and charity through the church is commanded. The government is not mentioned as the agent of giving. O’Donnell says they are. He says the tax rate should be 100% toward that end, or at least be very progressive, because Jesus says so. That idea is not taught in the New Testament. What is taught is that is indeed hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Somebody who is rich and does not give generously from his heart is showing they may not be a Christian. Whether they are doing so is between them and God, and should not be coerced by the state.

  • http://jhpruitt.blogtownhall.com/ kipling

    Scripture warns about perverting justice to favor the rich and the poor. Nowhere did Jesus advocate the confiscation and redistribution of wealth by the government. Those who can work are commanded to work. Paul spoke directly to the subject in Timothy where he warned that charity could also lead to sin by enabling the recipients to commit acts of evil in their leisure. Even those who received charity were commanded to perform work beneficial to the body of Christ.