Jim Wallis And The "Circle Of Protection" Mislead Obama On Matthew 25 (Video)
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President Obama has replaced the Reverend Jeremiah Wright with another radical pastor. Jim Wallis is Obama’s new spiritual adviser and was recently at the White House to give Obama encouragement and resolve to defend “the least of these” in the midst of the budget battle. From Sojourners:
Today is another intense day of politics at the White House. The debt default deadline is fast approaching. The stakes for the nation are high as politicians can’t agree on how to resolve the ideological impasse on how to reduce the deficit before the nation defaults on its financial obligations.
Yesterday, before congressional leaders were due at the White House for critical negotiations, I, along with 11 other national faith leaders, met with President Obama and senior White House staff for 40 minutes. We were representing the Circle of Protection, which formed in a commitment to defend the poor in the budget debates. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, we opened in prayer, grasping hands across the table, and read scripture together. We reminded ourselves that people of faith must evaluate big decisions on issues like a budget by how they impact the most vulnerable.
We urged the president to protect programs for low-income people in the ongoing budget and deficit debate, and in any deal concerning the debt ceiling and default crisis. In an engaging back and forth conversation, the president and faith leaders discussed how we can get our fiscal house in order without doing so on the backs of those who are most vulnerable. We shared the concern that the deficit must be cut in a way that protects the safety net, and struggling families and children, and maintains our national investments in the future of all of us.
The meeting started with the recognition that the poor and vulnerable are at great risk in this debate. But we told the president some good news about how a Circle of Protection has formed in response to this crisis. It is now the most unified and broadest coalition of churches that any of us has ever seen — and is endorsed by our brothers and sisters of other faiths and secular organizations who also work for low-income people.
We made our simple principle clear: The most vulnerable should be protected in any budget or deficit agreements — as a non-partisan commitment. The most vulnerable need a special exemption from all spending cuts as they usually have had in previous times of deficit reduction. We told President Obama that this is what God requires of all of us.
We agreed that we need both fiscal responsibility and shared sacrifice. Those already hurting should not be made to hurt more, and those doing well should do their part in sacrificing. And whatever we decide should be fair, balanced, and compassionate. President Obama agreed that the sacrifices needed to reduce the deficit must not be borne by the “least of these.” It was good to hear a reference to Matthew 25 and Jesus’ words, “As you have done to the least of these, you have done to me,” in the White House…
The problem here is the interpretation that the Religious Left has on Matthew 25 is one that completely misses the point and it reveals their total hypocrisy on the issue. Jesus is referring to those who follow Him in this passage and the sick irony of Wallis’ interpretation of this is that he is supporting Liberal policies that will lead to the persecution of Christians, the very “least of these” Jesus is referring to. As to the total hypocrisy on the issue, if the unborn do no qualify as “the least of these” given Wallis’ interpretation it becomes rather meaningless. Wallis supports Obama, someone who wants to force states to fund Planned Parenthood, an organization that kills “the least of these” on a daily basis. We are in big trouble if this is the future of Christianity. If Jim Wallis, President Obama and other “Liberal Christians” truly followed the revolutionary politics of Jesus and they loved their fellow brethren like He taught us to in Matthew 25, then they would forsake their Leftist agenda. An agenda that will cause Christians to be persecuted.Related posts:
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Check out this response from Christian leaders, presenting a full Biblical view, from Christians for A Sustainable Economy: http://www.case4america.org
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