MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Mocks the Bible & Urges Obama to Exclude it From the Inauguration
Personally I think it would be okay, even a good thing if Obama would not put his hand on the bible when inaugurated. I mean, it will be a lie when he swears to protect and defend the constitution, will it not? But I am not mad at the Socialist O'Donnell who voraciously and with a smile on his face attacks the bible. I am just sorry he hasn't taken the time to understand it. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
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“No one accepts all of the teachings of the Bible — no one,” O’Donnell proclaimed. “There are no literal followers of the word of God as presented in the Bible left on earth. If there were any, they would have to be burning people at the stake all day, every day.”
- W.E.
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Atheist activists aren’t the only ones
looking to nix the Bible and references to God from President Barack
Obama’s inauguration.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell also took aim at the holy book today, dismissing its purportedly heinous contents and urging the president not to include it in his Jan. 21 inaugural ceremony.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell also took aim at the holy book today, dismissing its purportedly heinous contents and urging the president not to include it in his Jan. 21 inaugural ceremony.
After discussing Pastor Louie Giglio’s recent decision
to remove himself from Obama’s choice of benediction speakers,
O’Donnell launched into a tirade against the Bible and its presence at
the historical event. In addition to defending the gay rights movement
against Giglio’s nearly-20-year-old sermon, the MSNBC host dismissed the
Bible as an antiquated book that virtually nobody can agree with in its
entirety.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell (H/T: MSNBC)
“No one accepts all of the teachings of the Bible — no one,” O’Donnell proclaimed. “There are no literal followers of the word of God as presented in the Bible left on earth. If there were any, they would have to be burning people at the stake all day, every day.”
The host noted his belief that the
Bible mandates that prostitutes be burned at the stake and that those
who commit adultery and fail to keep the Sabbath also deserve death.
“The Bible has more death penalties in
it than Texas law,” he added, urging Obama to simply put his hand on one
of his daughter’s shoulders, rather than on a Bible, when he takes the
oath (Obama is actually planning to place his hand on two Bibles — one that was owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and another by Lincoln).
On the subject of slavery, O’Donnell
framed the Bible as a book that condoned the horror that Michelle Obama,
as a descendent of slaves, would have been forced to endure:
“This time, as it was last time for the first time in history, the book will be held by a First Lady who is a descendent of slaves. But the holy book she will be holding does not contain one word of God condemning slavery. Not one word. But that same book, which spends hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages condemning all sorts of things and couldn’t find one sentence to condemn slavery, does indeed find the space to repeatedly condemn gay people, as the now banished Louie Giglio said it does. And as the First Lady is holding that book for the President, sitting someone near them will be a pastor who the Inauguration Committee will make sure is much more adept at hiding what that book actually says than Louie Giglio was.”
Watch O’Donnell’s commentary, below:
