Granted, it’s the journalist’s job to find the craziest-but-still-believable quote and run it in the story, but this quote from a NYTimes article represents a line of thinking that seems to pop up frequently of late:
Becky Benson, 56, traveled from Orlando, Florida, because, she said, “we believe in Jesus Christ,” and Jesus, she said, would not have agreed with the economic stimulus package, bank bailouts and welfare.
Which religion is it that teaches people that the all-powerful God of the universe has a strong opinion about U.S. fiscal policy? To the extent that Jesus spoke of money, it was to disabuse his followers of the notion that money is at all important.
Render unto Obama what is Obama’s, and if you don’t like it, try to get more votes together next time around. But how about we let Jesus worry about more important things than the tax rate, shall we?
[Thanks to Jim for the link, and for the line "What ever happened to 'Blessed be the poor'…. I guess I was too busy to notice that there was a rewrite."]
P.S. — One more thought on that article: It seems Glenn Beck is now a victim of The Al Sharpton Paradox. His stature is tied to the preservation of the problems that he is purportedly trying to solve.
