Saturday, February 07, 2009

President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast

The President said: "There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know."

Doug Wilson:
This is chutzpah on stilts and steroids. . . . If anyone were to attempt to call him on this, that person and not Obama would be called down by just about everyone for being a troublemaker and small-minded garroter of words. Obama is not about to be challenged for his deft exclusion from this question all those millions of innocent lives that don't count anymore. He is saying, by implication, that "there is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being, except for those millions of lives we have found convenient to take on the threshold of life, and those lives we find it too expensive to not take among our most senior seniors. This much we know." To speak this way is tantamount to saying, and far more simply, "there is no god."