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Cindy Scripture, Sheehan’s Bible Thumping

by Big Dog on Apr 7, 2007 at 13:45 Political

A problem arises when people who are not versed in the Bible and the teachings of Jesus try to invoke scripture to score political points. Cindy Sheehan had such a situation recently when she took her Momma Moonbat crusade on a tour against the Democrats, the party she loved and supported in the last election. Yes, the Dems promised her they would bring the troops home and end the war and they got a lot of free publicity as Momma Moonbat advertised for them. She sat in a ditch in Texas to protest the President and the war (I wonder if she will go to the Dominican to protest Hillary and her vote to authorize the war).

I am no Biblical scholar, though I imagine I have read the Bible more times than Sheehan. I am sure I have been to more Bible study than she as well. What does that mean? Nothing really, except I can recognize when she is using the Bible as a political tool rather than a tool that teaches us how to guide our lives. Here is what Cindy had to say about the Dems:

“Our message is: Today is Good Friday, when Jesus Christ was killed by the Roman Empire. He rose again on Sunday, came back to life. But our loved ones won’t be coming home” from Iraq, she told reporters.

The protesters will tell Bush “to end this madness for our families,” said Sheehan, who took a tough line against Democrats who harnessed anger at the Iraq war to recapture the US Congress in November.

“They got there and they betrayed the grass roots that put them back there,” she said. “We can’t depend on the Democrats.”

She reports that Jesus rose again and came back to life but that our loved ones (the war dead) will not be coming back home. According to scripture, they are home. They have gone home to the Father. Jesus rose from the dead and appeared on Earth but he ascended to Heaven to be home with the Father. Now this might be a nit picky little thing but the fact is, Sheehan used the name of Jesus and one of the most holy Christian holidays to score political points and the reference she made makes no sense in the context of the Bible.

This is not to diminish her loss in any way though I believe that she is mentally unstable and has milked the death of her son to push her own political agenda. She is pushing to be remembered, in future history books, as the person who put and end to the war. She will be remembered but in the same fondness with which Veterans afford Jane Fonda. In any event, Sheehan is mad that the Democrats ran on a platform of “we will immediately bring the troops home.” This resonated with the moonbats and they lapped up the Kool-aid while being blindly led astray. Now that the Dems have not done what they said they would (on many issues, mind you) the anti-war nuts like Cindy are up in arms. Sheehan is becoming even more unhinged than she usually is. As an aside, I heard he in DC when I was with the Gathering of Eagles and she is even more irritating in person than she is on TV.

Sheehan could learn a lot about Christianity by actually reading a Bible. That would be a better activity than protesting and looking foolish. BTW Cindy, yes the Romans put Jesus to death but they did so at the request of the people (who only a week prior worshiped him when he entered town). Pilate offered them a chance to save Jesus by allowing them to select him as the criminal that was released according to tradition. The people chose Barabas, a bad criminal, over Jesus and the Romans put him to death for the people, not because Jesus had committed a crime against Rome. Your reference to the Empire is carefully worded to equivocate Bush’s terms in office to an Empire.

Cindy would do a lot better by spending her time mending fences in her own family and moving on in her life. Her son died on a combat mission he volunteered for in the service he volunteered to join. He is a hero and is probably spinning in his grave because his mother is feeding her ego at his expense.

Source:
Breitbart

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