Recently,
two Democratic Party Senators, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren
of Massachusetts, used Scripture to warn All and Sundry (ANS) about the “evil”
Brett Kavenaugh – President Trump’s recent Supreme Court nominee to replace
retiring Judge Anthony Kennedy. Of course, these illustrious politicians (IP’s)
wanted to inform Us Peons (UP’s) of the Lord’s intention to align God’s Kingdom
with one side of the Congressional aisle.
The
two IP’s joined (or were joined by) the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, a
preacher and NAACP leader in North Carolina, who lost no time in helping his
fellow Bible scholars explain Jesus further. No doubt, he wanted to add weight
to an already meaty argument: Democrats – no stranger to the ever-changing meaning
of words – are experts in telling the Republicans how uncharitable and wrongheaded
they are about Just About Everything (JAE).
The passage of Scripture that these Three Bible Scholars (TBS’s) chose was quite a dramatic one – an explanation of one aspect of the Last Judgement that each and every Christian should ponder and give serious – yeah, monumentally serious – consideration to. It involves Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 25, verses 34 – 40. For UP’s who need refreshing with regard to Jesus’ words, I reproduce this passage below:
34 “Then the
King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and
you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited
me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when
did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or
naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
40 And the King will answer
them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my
brothers, you did it to me.’”
Here is how the TBS’s explained this
passage:
Point Number One: The “I” in
this passage does not really mean Jesus; it means the Democratic Party. How do
I know this? Because this is the first interpretation of this passage – and I
have heard numerous sermons about it over the last 40 years – that says that I,
a Republican, have no chance of entering the Kingdom of God unless I become a
Democrat, acting as they do, and thinking as they do. Golly!
Point Number Two: The
definition of a “righteous” person includes only
those individuals who agree with the TBS’s. For goodness’ sake, don’t you want to be “on the moral side of
history”?[1]
Point Number Three: Only IP’s
(who have a magical connection to Bible verses and their meanings) can identify
which persons deserve the “hungry / thirsty / stranger (alien) / sick / imprisoned”
labels. (Dinesh D’Souza or Martha Stewart need not apply to be included under
the last label.)
Point Number Four: Brett
Kavanaugh, in order to be included under the heading of “righteous,” must prejudge each case that
comes before him in favor of the people described in Point Number Three. He has
not done this; therefore, he is an evil man, and the TBS’s have the Bible
verses to prove this! (Although which came first – the label “evil” or the
Bible verse to “prove” it – is not clear.)
Point Number Five: In light of
this marvelous revelation from the TBS’s, all who oppose Judge Kavanaugh’s
appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court (obviously Democrats) “are on the moral
side of history.”[2]
Now, I have no wish to disturb those
fine, godly TBS’s (especially the man who preaches God’s words for a living).
However, I would like to exercise a bit of Biblical exegesis myself:
Liz’s Response Number One: Do Warren,
Booker, and / or Barber defend the murder of innocent unborn children in the
womb? If they do, how do they claim “the moral side of history” when God’s Word
is clearly set against child sacrifice (see Leviticus 18:21, 20:3 and Deuteronomy 12:30-31,
18:10)? The modern-day slaughter of children in the womb for the “health” of
the mother is every bit as reprehensible as the slaughter of infants by burning
them in a fire to the god Molech to buy material favor (money, sheep, crops) from him.
Liz’s Response Number Two: Earlier in
Matthew’s Gospel, (chapter 5, verse 20 to be exact), Jesus said "For I say unto you that unless your
righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye
shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” I wonder why Jesus thought He could dictate who gets to go to Heaven! Aren’t the
Democrats better at deciding membership in the Kingdom?
Liz’s
Response Number Three: In
what century did the meaning of sacrificial giving change from using one’s own wealth, fortune, or resources
to using that which is demanded
from others through taxes and fees? (And while we’re at it, corporations who “donate”
copious amounts of money to charity are a joke. It’s really the money from
their customers which they “give,”
not their own. If you want to argue that it’s their profits that they give
away, go ahead, but they cannot deny that these companies charge higher prices
just so that they can appear “benevolent.”)
What are Warren’s, Booker’s, and Barber’s – and let’s not forget Bernie Sanders’
(who was also with the TBS’s) – net worths? Have they volunteered any of their
wealth, fortunes, or resources on behalf of their “moral side”?
Liz’s Response Number Four: The Old
Testament is replete with example after example of true justice: to live in awe of God, to honor His laws, and
to judge fairly when evil or injustice (as defined by the Almighty) has been
committed. At no time in the Bible does God state, “Put aside all that and
prejudge a case according to your own definitions and agendas.” However,
Warren, Booker, and Barber are convinced that the Bible does say that exact
thing. Unfortunately, the examples they provide (from St. Matthew’s Gospel, the
Book of Isaiah the Prophet, Psalm 23, and the Book of Numbers) utterly fail to
prove their points with regard to true justice. (Psalm 23? Really?)
My final word: When trying to steer through to coherency
during this and future political rodeos, avoid all IP’s who use ANS Biblical
passages to shame UP’s into doing JAE.
Gobbledygook? Exactly.
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