Posted by
Darrin Koone on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:00:00 AM
"...which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, is more central than an obscure passage in Romans.”
Ok, OH MY GOD BOMBA, You’ve just used the "J" Bomb.
When anyone starts there interpretation of scripture with "...which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, ...." you can pretty much stop listening there because the next thing to come out of their mouth is most likely going to be camel dung. In this case Obama is using a classic "I think" statement to disagree with a writer of an "obscure passage" in his opinion. If Romans 1 is an obscure passage to him than he needs to keep his mouth shut about it and any other passage of scripture that the same author, namely God, wrote. First, I would love to know how in the name of Jesus he purposes to take anything said in the sermon on the mount and turn it into a license for sin of any kind. Second, it is intellectually dishonest, not to mention blasphemy, to use one passage that God authors to say another passage is incorrect. Jesus nor Paul say anything in either passage that is that hard to understand. Quite frankly if he is such a poor exegete of literature to confuse those two passages then he isn’t smart enough to find his way to his own inauguration.
Back to my opening statement. Why can't people see that when someone begins a sentence with three I, my, my justifying statements that they are really trying to say something to the affect of " I don't have a clue what I am talking about but I hope in my attempt to throw enough crap out there something sticks to you."
The really sad thing is that when it comes to Obama that is the opinion I now have of his supporters. When I see them wearing there t-shirts or displaying there bumper stickers I picture in my mind a person saying "boy I don't have clue what this goo is all over and it doesn't smell that good either but sure makes me feel warm all over."
p.s. My spell checker kept wanting to substitute Osama for Obama and I refuse to add Obama to the dictionary.