EOD: Obama's misplaced faith
Steve Elliott Grassfire Nation
Barack Obama's faith is misplaced.
At today's National Prayer Breakfast, Obama once again established his personal theological basis for everything from ObamaCare to taking on Wall Street to bombing Libya:
"[P]art of that belief comes from my faith in the idea that I am my brother’s keeper and I am my sister’s keeper; that as a country, we rise and fall together. I’m not an island. I’m not alone in my success. I succeed because others succeed with me."
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But is it true? Am I my brother's keeper? And if so, what should government do about it?
The specific phrase "brother's keeper" is used just once in the Bible -- the account of Cain and Abel. From the context of that verse and the meaning and usage of the Hebrew word "shamar" (to keep), the answer is clearly no.
I find no biblical directives to "keep" another human being as implied in the Hebrew "shamar." Cain's use of the phrase was actually in his own defense. Instead, we are told first and foremost that God keeps us and that we are to keep His law. The "keeping" relationship is vertical -- God to man, and in response, man to God's ways. For one man to assume the role of "keeper" for another man is to interfere with the God-man relationship.
And that's exactly what Obama's marxist liberation theology seeks to do -- place man in the role of God.
This is not a small point. Obama is making his class-envy, statist philosophy the centerpiece of his campaign. He is bragging about the government's takeover of General Motors (even though it cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars). He is openly attacking the free market and capitalism. And he is (wrongly) using theology -- the brother's keeper "principle" -- to defend his point.
Even if Obama were correct that the Bible teaches that one man has a responsibiity to "keep" another man, Obama would then still have to justify that, under our Constitution, the government has a legitimate "keeper" role. The Constitution makes no such claim for government over the lives of We The People. Unfortunately, that's what we have today -- a "nanny" state that "keeps" people.
+ + Eric "Stonewall" Holder
Also today, Attorney General Eric Holder went before a House congressional committee and essentially continued his stonewalling on the government-made "Fast and Furious" tragedy.
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