Latest Union Thug Tactic: Invoke Jesus

This is beyond pathetic and it's vintage Saul Alinsky. The latest tactic by the union thugs in Wisconsin is to invoke the phrase, 'What Would Jesus Cut?' Aside from the fact that these people reject and demean Christianity all day long, this is nothing more than one of Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals. The problem is that if conservatives don't know how to respond to the tactic, it might work. Isn't it funny how the left wants religion out of politics until they can use it to their advantage?

First up, Rule #4 from Uncle Saul:

4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

The far left liberal Christian (oxymoron) group known as Sojourners has placed a full page ad in POLITICO (pictured). The president of Sojourners is none other than Spiritual advisor to Barack Obama, Jim Wallis - a Marxist (social justice). Jeff Jacoby writes at the Boston Globe:

The ad, signed by Sojourners’ president, Jim Wallis, and other leaders of the Christian left, argues that “a budget is a moral document’’ and the moral test of any nation is how it treats the poor and vulnerable. It acknowledges that government debt is a serious problem, but implores lawmakers not to balance the budget by cutting the “sound investments that a just nation must protect.’’ Among the “investments’’ Sojourners mentions are school lunch programs, tax credits for the working poor, and international aid for fighting pandemics.

Jacoby then goes on to quote the part of Matthew 25 where it says to care for the naked, the sick, the hungry, etc. and rightfully points out that government is not responsible for those things - individuals are:

A more fundamental problem with the “What Would Jesus Cut?’’ campaign is its planted axiom that Jesus would want Congress to do anything at all. Yes, we are emphatically commanded by Scripture to help the poor, to comfort the afflicted, and to love the stranger. But those obligations are personal, not political. It requires a considerable leap of both faith and logic to read the Bible as mandating elaborate government assistance programs, to be funded by a vast apparatus of compulsory taxation. I admit that I am no New Testament scholar, but I cannot recall Jesus ever saying that the way to enter Heaven is to dole out money extracted from your neighbors’ pockets.

Not mentioned in Jacoby's piece is another part of Matthew 25. In particular, the Parable of the Talents, which is Matthew 25: 14-30. I'd love to see the likes of Jim Wallis fit that parable into is social justice world view.

h/t Weasel Zippers

AUDIO: OBAMA SPIRITUAL ADVISER SAYS FOX TO BLAME FOR OBAMA'S TROUBLES

The juicy headline for this audio clip of Barack Obama spiritual adviser Jim Wallis speaking to a British interviewer is that Fox News has led a concerted smear campaign intended to 'assassinate' the religion of Obama but there is far more here. We get a peak inside what Obama is thinking if Wallis is to be believed. Based on that, Obama's clearly very frustrated that his agenda is meeting the stiff opposition of the American people. Wallis then does what any good Marxist does - he accuses the other side of being racist while pointing to some nebulous right wing conspiratorial smear campaign.

Toward the end of this clip, the interviewer asks Wallis if Obama feels the same way he does. Wallis doesn't go that far but DOES say Obama thinks 'he hasn't had a chance to communicate effectively what he's been for.'

Obama hasn't had a chance to communicate effectively? How many has he had so far? Upwards of a gazillion?

Wow.

Via The Blaze:

VIDEO: OBAMA'S NEW MARXIST SPIRITUAL ADVISOR

There was a time when a politician being associated with someone like this would be so egregious, it would end his / her career. In these times, it goes largely ignored that not only does the President of the United States have these associations but they are increasingly voluminous.

Welcome to Jeremiah Wright's replacement. Jim Wallis is Barack Obama's spiritual advisor. He is also a marxist with some extremely twisted views on Biblical teachings, including wealth re-distribution and mandatory charity, which is just another way of advocating theft. I would love to hear Wallis' interpretation of the parable of the talents in Matthew 25. It's all about capitalism.

via Communists 4 Obama



h/t to Free Republic

OBAMA'S NEW PASTOR - YIKES

Whenever Aaron Klein writes something, I always make a point to read it because he's out in front of so many things. Today, he writes about Barack Obama's new pastor, Rev. Jim Wallis. Obama long ago racked up a long list of radicals he affiliated with and he still got elected. Here's another one.

Klein writes:

Wallis began his activism as a protester and then later Michigan leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960's antiwar group from which Bill Ayers' Weatherman domestic terrorist organization splintered.

Discover the Networks said that as a theology student, Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called the Post-American, which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving "social justice."

A pastor tied to Bill Ayers? How can that be possible? Wallis also founded a magazine that has published the writings of other radicals, including the man who founded the brand of theology practiced by Jeremiah Wright:

Sojourners has published a slew of radicals, including socialist activist Cornel West and James Cone, considered the founder of Black Liberation Theology, which spawned the likes of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of nearly 20 years.

Klein ends with a quote from Wallis when he appeared on MSNBC:

"The God of the Bible is the God of justice," he said. "Though the poor are in the center of God's concern... Poverty breaks the heart of God. And it breaks the heart of the church. So, this is about Christians who may disagree on politics. Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't matter. Left or right. We have different views on the role of government. Doesn't matter, But justice is integral to the gospel."

As Glenn Beck would likely say, Wallis doesn't seem to understand charity (unless it's with other people's money). I would love to hear Wallis' interpretation of the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25.

By the way, speaking of Glenn Beck, he claimed on his radio show to have the goods on Wallis. I think another Van Jones-type shoe is about ready to drop. The video below is five minutes but the relevant portion is the 2nd half.

Via the Right Scoop:


Glenn Beck to Jim Wallis: The Hammer is Coming
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WND has Klein's entire piece.