obama.jpgThe headline of this August 26 CNN story triggered the first gag: “Obama invokes Bible in NOLA.” Then came the article:

“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.
Obama blasted local, state and federal response to the storm, and touched upon ingredients necessary for the city’s rebuilding, namely more employment opportunities for residents to rebuild, community-based law enforcement to tackle the city’s crime epidemic, and improved health care.

As an aside, if Obama is going to invoke the Bible here, he should know the Biblical role of government: to protect, maintain order, and merit justice.
Thus, the government failed on Katrina in this way: for not adequately protecting a sinking soup bowl of a corruptly and ineptly run city built next to the ocean from a Category 5 hurricane, incidentally “the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record,” according to Wikipedia.
The Biblical role of the Church is to provide compassionate care, which it did, more quickly and much better than the government. And it would have done better still were it not for the fact the government now takes so much money Americans once gave to churches, to try to do their job, which it absolutely cannot. This catastrophe showed that.
But Obama stopped reading too soon. The next two verses, Matt. 7:26-27, say:

But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.

Obama is a Biblical cherry picker and a snake. I shudder for him. He zealously supports abortion to the extent he has endorsed infanticide because he thought it would interfere with Roe v. Wade. I testified before an IL senate committee of which he was a member, and I’ve heard him say that, and I’ve seen his votes, so don’t bother cutting and pasting from NARAL’s website or an Obama blog attempting to contort Obama’s repulsive abortion position.
jesus.jpgWho can misunderstand Jesus on children? Matt. 18:10, 14:

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven…. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Here’s The Message translation of the latter part of verse 10:

You realize, don’t you, that their personal angels are constantly in touch with my Father in heaven?

What a thought, one to inspire a sense of peace and justice in pro-lifers and terror in pro-aborts.
[HT: Son Tim; photo of Obama courtesy of CNN]

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