Thursday, August 20, 2009

Clearly, Obama doesn't know what Jesus taught

Obama: 'We are God's partners in matters of life and death'...

Wrong! The second greatest commandment, our Christian duty to "love our neighbor as ourself" is a mandate given by Jesus to each of us as individuals, families, and communities. Jesus did not say "have your government love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus was never in the business of government mandates. He came to teach us individually how to live. On the contrary, to relinquish our Christian duty to our government is a very unchristian thing to do; saddling us with higher taxes in order to accomplish this transfer of responsibility and making it fiscally more difficult to follow this mandate on an individual basis. It's less efficient and more likely to result in terrible unintended consequences. Or, since we deem fit to have our government fulfill our Christian commandments for us, shall we have it also fulfill the First and greatest commandment?

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