Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042508/content/01125104.guest.html" target="_blank">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ho...est.html</a> >>RUSH: By the way, there's a report out there that Nancy Pelosi is "misquoting" or did "misquote" the Bible on Earth Day on April 22nd. She did no such thing! There are too many people on our side who are unwilling to tell the truth. She didn't "misquote." She made it up! She literally lied and made it up! "In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, 'The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, "To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us." On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children's children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature.'" So she lies. She didn't "misquote" the Bible. She made it up! It's not there! All to advance a political agenda. Quoting the Bible to fit an agenda? "Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Cybercast News Service the passage not only doesn't exist -- it's 'fictional.' 'It is not in the Bible,' [the theologian] said. 'There is nothing that even approximates that,'" in the Bible. Nothing. It's not even "close." She was totally made up; it was not a misquote. People are so afraid to be critical of people on things like this. You know, Obama does the same thing. All these liberals, they start playing games with what's in the Bible and redefining this and what Jesus said and so forth. Pelosi made it up, and everybody is talking about how she "misquoted" the Bible and so forth. This is far more hideous than a misquote. I want to give you another way to read this Pelosi quote. This Pelosi quote, "To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us." It seems to me like what Ms. Pelosi is saying -- and this is to advance the whole concept of global warming, by the way -- is, "Don't worship the Creator. Worship the created." Don't worship the Creator, because we can't worship the creator; because the created is the Creator. Nature, Gaia, whatever. But this frosts me. It's not a "misquote." She made it up -- unless she's got a new religion that she hasn't told us about and she's just calling it Christianity. <<
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder And guess what? I could not possibly care less what Pelosi made up or created or quoted. I don't care if she claims she wrote the bible and posed for pictures or says she's really Eve with a bad eye lift.
Originally Posted By ecdc Yup. More fake outrage. Like 90% of people who claim to the love the Bible could quote it accurately either. This is politics at its worst.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Quoting the Bible to fit an agenda? << Terrible. I'm glad no one on the right ever does that.
Originally Posted By friendofdd It is not of much consequence, but one does wonder why she did such a thing. I assume the speech was written for her and she thought she was quoting the Bible. Many of our LP lefties seem not to care what the Bible says and may be reflective of Ms Pelosi's own attitude. So why did she do it?
Originally Posted By alexbook She didn't just make it up. It seems she's been quoting that same passage for years: <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200804/CUL20080423b.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCul...23b.html</a> I wonder if it's one of those sayings, like "God helps those who help themselves," that people think is in the Bible but isn't.
Originally Posted By friendofdd That is interesting, Alex. I tried googling the quote in all and part, but I only got references to Ms Pelosi saying it rather than any possibility as to it's origin.
Originally Posted By friendofdd I really doubt she is deliberately making up Bible quotes, but, rather, got it from staff member. She is too canny a politician to want to get herself into the position she now seems to face.
Originally Posted By Mr X Well, aside from whether she made it up or not (and it's kinda sad that one would need to make reference to the all-mighty bible in order to say some words that ring true already), it's actually a pretty cool thing to say isn't it. Would anyone here disagree that god *wouldn't* feel that way? Is he really a big oil man, after all?
Originally Posted By Mr X Maybe the passage is actually from the Koran, but knowing the kind of heat THAT would bring on, she chose the lesser of two evils.
Originally Posted By DAR <<As long as she doesn't start quoting "Austin 3:16" then we are fine.>> Give me a Hell YA
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF If I had a dollar for every time Rushie has pulled something out of HIS posterior...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I wonder if it's one of those sayings, like "God helps those who help themselves," that people think is in the Bible but isn't.> That's probably closest to the truth, since she's said it many times. Maybe she read somewhere that the Bible said that, she liked it, and keeps repeating it. (And it DOES say we are charged with being good stewards of the earth, does it not?)
Originally Posted By JohnS1 This is just like people quoting "Play it again, Sam" from Casablanca, when that line never really appears. Or quoting Cary Grant as saying "Judy, Judy, Judy" when he never really said it. And that's Hollywood, which is way more important than the Bible!!!
Originally Posted By schoolsinger The environmental movement is sounding more and more like a religion.
