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Thread #101088   Message #2291780
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
18-Mar-08 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
I rather suspect that when Rev Wright said ""God damn America -- that's in the Bible" he'd have been thinking of the version of the Sermon of the Mount in Luke, where after laying out a list of Beatitudes "Blessed are the poor" and so forth, Jesus balances that with a list of "Woe to yous" - "Woe unto you who are rich...who are well fed...when all men speak well of you".

In some translations it's even given as "cursed are you", quite as strong as "damn you".

The point being, this was essentially biblical rhetoric. That doesn't mean it was the right kind of biblical rhetoric - but set it against this genuinely damnable stuff from a site I found by accident just now, The Curse of Ham: Why Barack Hussein Oboma Will Never Be President - normally I give a taster along with a link, but I won't this time, because I don't like the taste one little bit.