Geee Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 American Spectator:MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell devoted one of his "Rewrite" segments this week to the topic of Rush Limbaugh and Jesus Christ. Upset with Limbaugh's dismissal of the left's "What would Jesus cut?" campaign, O'Donnell tore into the talk show host, imagining him flying "down the path of the damned" in his private jet should he fail to "give up" all his wealth. As he sits in "full recline" on one of his jet-setting trips to play golf, Limbaugh should consider the perilous fate of his soul, thundered O'Donnell. Heed, he said, "the words of Jesus Christ. Give up everything. You can be a radio talk show host and you can make your 50 million dollars a year. But you cannot do that and be a disciple of Christ if you keep all of your 50 million dollars a year."That an MSNBC host believes in the existence of hell is perhaps the most newsworthy element to emerge from this statement. But O'Donnell's implicit "rewrite" of the New Testament and equation of Christian discipleship with IRS payments are also notable.Jesus Christ told his disciples to "give to the poor." But from O'Donnell's commentary, one would have thought that Christ said, "give to government to give to the poor." Christ's injunctions to individual charity and the exacting of taxes by government are treated as one and the same in O'Donnell's analysis. O'Donnell casts Jesus Christ as the premier tax theoretician for the welfare state, interpreting Christ's message of "give up everything" as a call for Marxist levels of taxation."The New Testament does have an answer to Rush's question, 'What would Jesus take?' and it's not one Rush is going to like," said O'Donnell. "And since he obviously has no working command of the Bible, it will surely shock him because he will be hearing it now for the first time. The answer is everything, not 35 percent, not 39.6 percent. One hundred percent." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Liberal idiots like O'Donnell talking about Christian theology... is equivalent to my dog Sadie commenting on the finer techniques of a kidney transplant. (BTW, Sadie has much more common sense and veracity than any of these nitwits.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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