President Obama misquoted a familiar Bible verse during a faith-based address at the National Prayer Breakfast.
“Those who wait on the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary, and they will walk and not faint,” the president said during a speech to several thousand people at the breakfast.
But the actual passage, from Isaiah 40:31, states: “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
I guess some people insist on keeping God’s Word in the original Elizabethan English.*
(*Some pinheads think there may be an earlier version —
— obviously, this is some nefarious liberal plot.)
Several commenters have identified the Obama quote as the New International Version, although I don’t think it matches the NIV word for word.
Particularly after the Bill O’Reilly idiocy with the tides and the moon, Steve Benen suggests that Fox News just stay completely away from theology. Oh, but where’s the fun in that?
Update: I’d say someone at Weasel Zippers needs Bible lessons, too.
It goes to show that if Fox News can’t find some credible thing to pin on Obama, they will just make shit up.
Whatever happened to, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor?” Isn’t that one of the 10 Commanch… Amendme… uhm, doohickies?
Oh, never mind. I remembered – Kenya’s not a neighbor.
“Oh, but where’s the fun in that?”
Indeed! You’re too kuel, Maha!
Which version of the bible tells me not to covet my neighbor’s ass?
Swami,
It was about Sarah, in the “Book of Todd.”
WOW! I read the “weasel Zippers” comments, there’s a bright bunch o’ patriots!
Swami, it’s open season……
I’ve heard hard-core rightards insist the King James edition is the one and only true edition of the Bible. Perhaps because their mindset is more attuned with the early 17th century.
Another hair-splitting excuse to be outraged.
I’ve heard hard-core rightards insist the King James edition is the one and only true edition of the Bible.
A friend of mine once found himself dragooned into teaching Sunday School to a class who had no concept that there even could be such a thing as a different version of the Bible.
Hate to say it, but Fox News was right. Fox was referring to Obama’s omission of the first clause of the verse. Just cut and paste what Obama said, and what the New International Version says, and you’ll see he flubbed the line. Fox wasn’t talking about the minor stylistic versions between the King James version and the New International, but to Obama’s complete omission of a line that appears in each.
And how much Kool-Aid did you drink, dear? If you aren’t still buzzing from the sugar high, do read what an ordained Christian minister says about it.
Fox, the champion of the irreligious individualist? …of those not recognizing any supra-indivdual forces? That Fox?
ROFLMAO!
Next thing you know Glenn Beck will be a professor, Bill O’Reilly a man of the cloth and Sean Hannity a …a, aw shoot he’ll never be more than just a pipsqueak and Rupert Murdoch’s designer lapdog. And if none of that’s true the viewers will just believe it into existence.
Who goes to Fox for their bible lessons anyway? This can’t pass muster with anything but the narrowest intersection of exteme right wing, fundamentalist and gullible.
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Next thing you know Glenn Beck will be a professor,
Isn’t Glenn Beck the Dean of Glenn Beck University? And if not that, doesn’t he profess to have all the answers anyway? Or is that Rush Limbaugh I’m thinking about?
The light of Fox News came into the world and the darkness of Liberalism comprehended it not.
If I recall correctly, Oliver Willis had an article about a previous O’Reilly pontification where he pulled out the old chestnut, “God helps those who help themselves.” Which of course, does not occur in the Bible.
I guess some people include things that SHOULD be in the Bible, like God’s opposition to universal healthcare and support of “free makets”. God was an NRA member too and He invented the “butterfly ballot” to make the Annointed One president. I guess the whole thing needs to be updated.
Whoa! I just read some of the comments over there at Weasel Zippers. For folks so incensed that President Obama may (or may not) have omitted a verse that may (but probably not) have slightly altered the meaning of a biblical passage, most of those self-proclaimed Christians don’t seem all that familiar with any of the translations of the bible themselves (including King James).
You know, simple things such as: “Judge not lest you yourself be judged,” “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,” “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” For worshippers of a loving God, there’s sure a lot of hate-spewing over at that site.
So which is worse–possibly not quoting a biblical passage with 100% word-for-word accuracy, or deliberately choosing to ignore those biblical prohibitions and proscriptions one doesn’t like? You know, the ones that are kinda the foundation of your religion.
So which is worse–possibly not quoting a biblical passage with 100% word-for-word accuracy, or deliberately choosing to ignore those biblical prohibitions and proscriptions one doesn’t like? You know, the ones that are kinda the foundation of your religion.
Muldoon, I agree completely. It’s too bad they give religion a bad name and reputation by their actions.
Muldoon,
Somehow or other, these oh soooooo Jesusy, Saviour-flavored Christians seem never to have read the New Testament.
The old one’s the one they seem to love. I think they’re too busy in the bathrooms thinking about begatting, and getting even with their neighber by smiting them for some offense or other, to ever read about the Saviour who talked about love, tolerance and peace.
WWJS – Who Would Jesus Smite?