From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
Subject: Quotes (was: Is there anybody...)
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:54:41 GMT

In article <84748@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
|> I stand corrected from another, probably more reliable, source.  My new
|> and improved signature follows.
|> =============================================================================
|> Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
|> "What a waste it is to lose one's mind.  Or not to have a mind.  How true  
|> that is." -- J. Danforth Quayle at United Negro College Fund luncheon

Lest you run out of ideas for keeping your .sig fresh and interesting, here
are some excerpts from a recent Cal Thomas commentary entitled...

                          "Democrats Get Religion"
                        (c) 1992 L.A. Times Syndicate

The Democrats have found God!

From Jesse Jackson, who called the Virgin Mary a "single mother" (perhaps
because Jackson is not acquainted with the Father), to Bill Clinton and Al Gore,
Democrats are wrapping themselves in the Bible and religious themes.

.... [stuff about the irony of this when Democrats cried about "separation of
      church and state" when Republicans did likewise in the 1980 and 1984
      elections]

At least Republicans, when they quoted the Bible, got it right.  The press,
which jumps on Vice President Dan Quayle when he misspells a word or thinks he
has misquoted Mark Twain, ignores Bill Clinton when he misquotes the Bible and
Al Gore when he overstates or misstates what the Bible says.  Perhaps more
reporters are familiar with Mark Twain than Moses.  Perhaps they think Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John are the first names of some of our Olympic athletes.
   
In his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Clinton spoke of a "new
covenant" he wanted to make with the American people.  According to the Revell
Bible Dictionary, "Covenants are essentially formal announcements by God of
his purposes and intentions.  Most define how God's people are to relate to
him."  A covenant also depends largely on the character of the one making it.
God's is beyond question.  Clinton's is in some doubt.

In his acceptance speech, Gore said, "In the words of the Bible, 'Do not lose
heart.  This nation will be renewed.'"  No such verse appears in the Bible.

Bill Clinton quoted the Bible as saying, "Our eyes have not seen, nor our ears
heard, nor our minds imagined, what we can build."  The only verse that comes
close to what Clinton said is 1 Corinthians 2:9:  "But as it is written, eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."  Different words with
decidedly different meanings.

In his best-selling book "Earth in the Balance," Gore writes that when Cain
killed Abel, as recorded in Genesis, and his "blood cried out from the ground,"
this was the first instance of "pollution."  Theologian Carl Henry says that
it is, rather, "an indication of the horror God felt from the violation of
human dignity and worth contained in the image of God in which Abel was made."

It is a violation Gore and Clinton are prepared to tolerate and promote when
it comes to the unborn, whose worth is also established in several Bible
verses, which the two ignore in their selective and sometimes inaccurate proof
texting.  They also see nothing wrong with homosexual practice, which is
frequently condemned in the same Bible they look to for instruction concerning
the environment and covenant-making.  Do they believe it all, or is theirs a
cafeteria theology which takes only those items that please their palates and
advances their careers?

....[Stuff about the dangers of false theology]

If the Democrats are going to invoke religious ideas, they should read the
source for those ideas more carefully.  Otherwise, they risk having the verdict
of Isaiah 28:15 pronounced on them:  "For we have made falsehood our refuge
and have concealed ourselves with deception."

-- End of article --

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