Posted by
Billy on Friday, August 26, 2011 3:41:08 PM
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has done us a wonderful service with her Aug. 15 article in the Atlantic, "Is Rick Perry as Christian as He Thinks He Is?"
It's a masterpiece of liberal misuse of the Bible, which will become more frequent as the campaign heats up.
First, only God and Mr. Perry know what Mr. Perry thinks of his own faith. I doubt that either has shared that knowledge with Mrs. Townsend or her editors.
Maryland's Democrat lieutenant governor from 1995 to 2003, Mrs. Townsend starkly makes the case that being Christian means using other people's tax dollars to help the poor.
She penned this in reaction to Texas Gov. Perry's prayer rally in Houston on August 6. Mrs. Townsend agrees with the atheist Freedom From Religion Foundation, which unsuccessfully sued to halt his participation in the event.
Throughout her piece, as befitting a member of the Kennedy family, she equates government with charity.
Mrs. Townsend revealed more than she probably intended in her opening paragraph:
"America is a religious nation. Polls may differ, but most find that over 80 percent of Americans say they believe in God. Fifty percent also say they go to church on Sunday, while only half of those actually do. I guess this shows that we want to look better than we actually are, at least to the public -- if not to God, who presumably knows what we're really up to."
Would a believing Christian dare use the word "presumably" to describe the capabilities of Almighty God, Whom the Bible tells us is omniscient, eternal and unchanging? Either He is God or He isn't. "Presumably" is a weasel word implying doubt.
Let's move on to her view of Christian charity.
"I see a fundamental inconsistency between Perry's concerted opposition to government social programs and his promotion of himself as a Christian politician," she writes "....Christ teaches us to feed the hungry and care for the sick, not to abandon them. Perhaps Gov. Perry hasn't read that part of the Bible where Christ admonishes us to care for 'the least among us.'"
(Billy's Thoughts>>> The above piece was posted over on
OneNewsNow.com. God never said in his Bible that helping those in need meant starting a government program. Besides is it Christian to spend other people's money? If people didn't have to pay so much in taxes they would have more money to help those in need.)