Comments on: Obama, Matthew 25, and Compassion http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/obama-matthew-25-and-compassion/ The Moral Doomsday Clock is Ticking Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:52:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: whatthecrap? http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/obama-matthew-25-and-compassion/#comment-187 whatthecrap? Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:57:17 +0000 http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/?p=200#comment-187 HAHAHA! Your recreation of Matthew is great. HAHAHA! Your recreation of Matthew is great.

]]> By: jonolan http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/obama-matthew-25-and-compassion/#comment-186 jonolan Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:43:15 +0000 http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/?p=200#comment-186 Mostly because I'm uncomfortable speculating on anyone else's dogmatic and doctrinal interpretations without direct conversation with that person. Your estimate, though carries with it the weight of evidence and supposition that meet Obama's displayed beliefs well enough to get me past that discomfort. Mostly because I’m uncomfortable speculating on anyone else’s dogmatic and doctrinal interpretations without direct conversation with that person. Your estimate, though carries with it the weight of evidence and supposition that meet Obama’s displayed beliefs well enough to get me past that discomfort.

]]> By: wgreen http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/obama-matthew-25-and-compassion/#comment-185 wgreen Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:10:37 +0000 http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/?p=200#comment-185 Why do you use the word "forced"? Why do you use the word “forced”?

]]> By: jonolan http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/obama-matthew-25-and-compassion/#comment-183 jonolan Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:37:02 +0000 http://moralmidnight.wordpress.com/?p=200#comment-183 <i>"Yep. That’s how Obama reads it, I guess."</i> I'm forced to agree with you. It was probably partially that interpretation that lured him into Black Liberation Theology. If you strip out all the racism and victimology of that cult what little you're left with is the idea that it is God's will that governments, not individuals be bent - whipped if needs be - into service to the poor and oppressed. “Yep. That’s how Obama reads it, I guess.”

I’m forced to agree with you. It was probably partially that interpretation that lured him into Black Liberation Theology. If you strip out all the racism and victimology of that cult what little you’re left with is the idea that it is God’s will that governments, not individuals be bent – whipped if needs be – into service to the poor and oppressed.

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