Obama’s contempt for Christians is far from subtle – easily seen in the examples from the armed forces. Not only have Christians been leaving the military in droves due to the hostile environment that’s been created for them, the US Army has even classified Christian groups as ‘domestic terrorists’.
“It’s important for us to guard against cynicism and not buy the idea that the poor will always be with us and there’s nothing we can do,” Obama said. Lest leftists and liberal Christians say his comment was “taken out of context,” but here are his full remarks:
“One of the things I’m always concerned about is cynicism,” Obama said. “My chief of staff, Denis McDonough, we take walks around the South Lawn, usually when the weather is good. And a lot of it is policy talk, sometimes it’s just talk about values. And one of our favorite sayings is our job is to guard against cynicism, particularly in this town. And I think it’s important for us to guard against cynicism and not buy the idea that the poor will always be with us and there’s nothing we can do, because there’s a lot we can do. The question is, do we have the political will, the communal will to do something about it.”
Obama’s quotes Matthew 26:11 in a manner that’s utterly contrary to the verse’s meaning.
6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Far from heaving a resigned sigh, Jesus is reminding the disciples that poverty, like death or the pain of childbirth, are constants in this fallen world that can be attended to but never wiped out. The Complete Commentaries of minister Matthew Henry affirms this:
“Observe his reason; You have the poor always with you,” Henry writes. “Note, 1. There are some opportunities of doing and getting good which are constant, and which we must give constant attendance to the improvement of. Bibles we have always with us, sabbaths always with us, and so the poor, we have always with us. Note, Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity. The poor never ceased even out of the land of Israel, Deu. 15:11.” [For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.]
Twisting the words of the Gospel to push unjust, disastrous government programs robbing Peter to pay Paul? For shame.
He has no clue what the Bible says. He makes it up as he goes along!!!!
I wonder if anyone has brought to the Presidents attention the hundreds of Christian organizations that work to help the poor; some of which would be
Salvation Army, Goodwill mission, Convoy of Hope, church run food pantries, Catholics Charities, gFood for the Hungry, World Vision, Feed the Children, and the list goes on …..
It appears that once again the President has not done his homework before making broad judgmental statements.
Like so many have been saying – when you think you are God, most of the stuff that comes out of your mouth alludes to the fact that you are one, if not the most, deceived person on earth.
Agree on that M. Nelson
U Muslim ,$#%&!@* !!!
He is down right pitiful in his self-deception. How can anyone be so diluded as to think he has an answer for everything and everyone including Jesus Christ. I think perhaps he has just lost his mind and has no self-restraint. How can you even be mad at a crazy person. I never thought I’d reach this point of recognition as to how really troubled this man is.
Can’t fix stupid
he is such a smart $#%&!@*
Well he has joined the Scribes and Pharisees in trying to denounce Jesus authenticity . Let’s hope for his soul’s sake he has presence enough of mind not to blast the Holy Spirit and seal his soul.
The Mask of the Racist Right comes off!
All it took was a Black man to
become President to reveal how truly racist, truly bigoted, truly ignorant and
truly hateful the racist right are, have been, and always will be.
I kept saying Obama haters are the biggest racists and bigots in American
History, and leave it to scumbags like you to prove my point.
Obama did not say what you think he said. I do not think he scoffed Jesus’ words, but he simply said: “we cannot accept the idea that the poor will always be with us, and thus we have to do something about it”. Ladies and Gentlemen, please… listen well….wait you can’t