“But Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was The Play?”
By Mitch Berg
So, other than that whole “pro-infanticide speaker at a “Catholic” institution” bit, how was President Obama’s speech?
Father Richard Landry on Cthe full theological ghastliness of Obama’s address:
The most audacious part of the address was when the President tried to change the meaning of the Christian faith and draw erroneous conclusions from the false notion. “The ultimate irony of faith,” the president declared, “is that it necessarily admits doubt. It is the belief in things not seen.” He seemed to be quoting from Hebrews 11:1, one of the most famous definitions of faith found in Sacred Scripture, but, whether intentional or not, he got its meaning completely wrong. The passage reads, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith is not a “belief” in things not seen — which would be tautological and nonsensical — but the “substance” or “evidence” of things not seen. Faith leads not to doubt, nor merely to subjective conviction, but to objective truth discoverable through revelation and grace.
The whole thing is worth a read.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Clearly we have been reading the Scriptures wrong & the messiah has come to set us straight.