Fox News Is SHOCKED That Obama Has Christian Values

Seriously, Fox News? Are you seriously expressing disdain for President Obama’s remarks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast about how his faith has helped form his policy opinions?

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The arch-conservative, fundamentalists in America have spent decades insisting that America is a Christian nation and that the country must submit to their spiritual dogma. They have attempted to, and in many cases succeeded in, passing bills that legislatively adopt their religious principles, from abortion to creationism. And Fox Pews…I mean News has adopted the crusade of the religious right as their own.

The one Christian principle that is almost always left out of the fundamentalist agenda is the one that preaches compassion for the poor and Jesus’ admonition that “whatever you do (do not do) for the least of these you do (do not do) for me.” Now when the President articulates his principles of Christian faith at a prayer breakfast he is criticized for it with a distinct implication that it was somehow inappropriate.

OK, fine. Let’s all agree that injecting religion into public policy is inadvisable and promise to refrain from doing it. But that has to apply to all sides. The Christian Taliban can no longer try to shove its philosophy down the throats of their fellow citizens. There will be no more sermonizing on God’s alleged will. No more phony wars on Christmas. No more prayers to open congressional hearings. And if the right will not agree to these terms, then they have to shut up when the President makes barely religious comments like this:

“When I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same rules as folks on Main Street, when I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick or making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will make the economy stronger for everybody. But I also do it because I know far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years. And I believe in God’s command to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself.”

[…] “I actually think that is going to make economic sense, but for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.'”

Unfortunately, the Evangelicans will never surrender their arrogant superiority long enough to permit America to have true freedom of religion. And they will likewise refuse to refrain from castigating Democrats when they exercise their religious liberties. That’s just the nature of the sanctimonious hypocrisy embraced by the practitioners of religious tyranny.

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4 thoughts on “Fox News Is SHOCKED That Obama Has Christian Values

  1. Colbert:
    “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”

    • That man is a goddamn genius, and is more relevant to our culture and our place in history than any other example. He’ll go down in history as an American paragon.

      • Agree. Colbert is at least as significant a social humorist as Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and George Carlin.

  2. It should be obvious to anyone that knows anything about Jesus’ teachings that republicans use religion as a way to get more votes from people that don’t really care about anything else. They do the same thing with lots of other issues like abortion and gun control. If they didn’t champion these issues, (which I would bet both nuts that the establishment don’t actually give a shit about), then they would never win. It’s a ploy for votes, which is why that’s all they’ve done for the past 3 years, instead of trying to solve actual problems. All the candidates are rich men. Only the republicans trumpet they’re Christianity as a reason to vote for them in high volume and cite it as the reason for an array of their stances on several issues. Someone needs to ask all of them-How do you, as a rich man, plan on getting into heaven? If Jesus said that rich men can’t get into heaven, does that make rich men inherently evil?

    The answer to the second one is YES!!!!!!

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