Tag: Bible

[T]he Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.’ My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who will be chairing the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Thankfully we can all rest assured that the Adults are in charge of the GOP. There might be one or two show votes, but then they’re going to buckle down and get to the hard work of governing by consensus. Certainly that’s what the Commentariat is telling me. So it must be true. Cannot wait for my pony.

Does EPA propose we stop breathing?

John Shimkus, (R, IL), showing the intellectual rigor on carbon emissions that he will bring to the Energy Committee, which he hopes to chair.
Similarly, Shimkus believes that God’s Biblical promise not to destroy the Earth again after that whole flood unpleasantness singularly disproves any possible dangers that might arise from that whole imaginary hoax that is climate change.
I look forward to numerous investigations into The Rainbow Connection.

Going Biblical

jonathan-cunningham:

“With Islam, you have a religion that says kill the Jews, kill the infidels. It bothers me when a religion says kill the infidels. It bothers me a lot more when I am the infidel.”

Exodus 22:18: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” If Islam “says kill the jews, kill the infidels” then Christianity says “Kill Christine O’Donnell”.

Yep. But let me just revise and extend the remarks of the distinguished gentleman with the following suggestions:

James 1:19-20

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 4:31-32

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:25-26

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath

And, while we’re on the subject, Might I suggest we open our Bibles to Mat. 23:23-28 (or: the Passion of Glenn Beck):

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

In which Lord Jesus warns against slavish observance of the more ceremonial and other outward aspects of religion (and its practice) to the detriment of the spirit of the thing: social justice, mercy, and faith. What a concept. The clear difficulty lies in proving Beck ever actually swallowed a camel. And, rest assured, that will come up and serve as primary defense.

25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

in which Lord Jesus warns against self righteous (and self proclaimed) paragons and proclaimers of religious faith who are, themselves, hollowed out by the same crimes against which they are railing…a particularly trenchant concept which is also hit upon in the nexcerpt (oh yes I did):

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Here endeth The Tea Klan, King James edition. Any politician in the Democratic party currently unable or unwilling to fight back by quoting one or more of these (or other) verses needs to go ahead and get out of politics, right now. Feel free to come on back at a brighter moment in the history of the country. Sorry, it’s just the way it is.

Going Biblical

You know, God gave us rights. Our Founding Fathers recognized that. It’s in our Declaration. It’s the foundational document of America. And God made all nations on Earth and decided when and where each nation would be. And that’s out of the book of Acts; it’s in other places.
So, we can’t be a nation if [we] don’t have a border, and if we grant amnesty, we can’t define it as a border any longer, or ourselves as a nation any longer.

Steve King (R, Iowa), setting a new bar for the most batshit insane thing I’ve seen uttered by a public official. It’s been a while since I read the book of Acts, but I’m pretty sure the United States of America and 54’40 or fight figured nowhere in it. Must’ve been towards the back.