Sinless "religious left" casts more stones at Sarah

Last week, we reported on how the "religious left" -- led by Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis -- is not only bearing false witness against Sarah Palin, but is engaged in a campaign to destroy her politically.

Now Institute on Religion and Democracy president Mark Tooley, who provided much of the background material on Wallis' embrace of the neo-Marxist philosophy of Liberation Theology, has a new essay up at FrontPageMagazine.com titled "Religious Left Panics over Obamacare Troubles." It's well worth the read. Here's a brief preview:

"Jim Wallis has issued a virtual public imprecatory pray for Sarah Palin’s political destruction after her comments on Obamacare’s 'death panels.' And a United Methodist lobbyist is denouncing Obamacare’s opponents as racists. Meanwhile, the President himself appeared on an August 19 Religious Left conference call, to rally true believers to our "core ethical and moral obligation.'"

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"For the statist mindset to which Wallis and the Religious Left passionately subscribe, government is simply a cornucopia of gifts and services, benignly bestowed, as an extension of, or even substitute for, God’s grace. But governments, unlike the private sector against whose “greed” the Religious Left perpetually warns, have coercive powers through taxation and law enforcement."

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"Accelerating the angry rhetoric about Obamacare’s critics was chief United Methodist lobbyist Jim Winkler, whose United Methodist Board of Church and Society is part of the Religious Left coalition for Obamacare. With typical perception, Winkler discerned that 'Racism and fear is at the core of the anger' against government health care. Winkler helpfully recalled that after Obama’s election America suffered a 'spate' of racial outrages, including 'cross burnings, black figures hanged from nooses, schoolchildren chanting ‘assassinate Obama,’ and racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.'"

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"Resorting to Wallis’ imprecatory tone against Palin, Winkler quoted Isaiah about the unrepentant: 'But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.' Wow, that’s violent language coming from a virtual pacifist. But evidently the vial of God’s judgment will be poured down upon all them with the temerity to question government run health care. For those, like Wallis and Winkler, who equate God’s Kingdom with Big Government, the punishment evidently cannot be soon enough."

All of which calls to mind Communist Goal #27:

"Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with 'social' religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a 'religious crutch.'"

Ravenous wolves, indeed.

- JP