WaPo's Milbank: Rick Perry's a Theocrat for Believing Jesus is Lord
By Ken Shepherd | August 31, 2011 | 15:51
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is no libertarian, he's a theocrat, at least according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank.
His evidence? In his 2008 book "On My Honor," Perry is unapologetic in his firm grasp of orthodox Christianity.
"Perry's politics are religious in a way not seen before in modern-day mainstream presidential candidates," an alarmed Milbank insisted:
"Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some," he writes. "The truth of Christ's death, resurrection, and power over sin is absolute.... What we believe about it does not determine its truthfulness."
Perry has no use for those who “want to recognize Jesus as a good teacher, but nothing more.” Of those non-Christians, Perry asks, “why call him good if he has lied about his claims of deity and misled two millennia of followers?”
The governor forecasts divine punishment for those who hold different political views. “Shall they stand before God and brag that they fought to scrub His glorious name from the nation’s pledge?” he asks. “Shall they seek His approval for attacking private organizations merely because these organizations proclaim His existence?”
Of course these quotes are reflective of historic, orthodox Christian belief and they were written in a book, not in Perry's executive orders or a state of the state address.
Indeed, right after talking about Christ's death and resurrection, Perry cited 20th century Christian apologist and novelist C.S. Lewis who famously argued that Christ was either Lord, a lunatic, or a liar, and can't have been anything but those three option.
Surely Milbank doesn't think C.S. Lewis was a theocrat.
But why let facts get in the way of a good attack line?
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Believing Jesus is Lord? That
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 3:56pm.
Believing Jesus is Lord? That is the very basis for Christianity. I wish these heretics like Milbank would shut the hell talking about Christianity
So Dana, if he worshipped Allah you would vote for Perry?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 4:00pm.
Milbank was one of those loons running around screaming about Islamophobia, but now says it is okay to bash Christians? Dana, I think you might find that Sharia law would have dhimmis like you treated like scum. Christianity teaches otherwise.
Theocracy
Submitted by Lee Hazel on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 4:06pm.
It is interesting that these people trying to equate a belief in Christ to a Theocracy are the same ones that seem to be comfortable with the Islamic encroachments into the US.
These include politics, Social, Financial and Legal areas of American life. Accompanying this of course is Sharia Law. It is noteworthy that in every country with a Muslim/Islam dominated government and Sharia Law there is a functioning Theocracy.
What a maroon
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 4:11pm.
Calling him a theocrat by these guys is a bit insulting.
What's even more insulting is that they would appear to rather have Islamic rule versus a Christian. Liberals have more to fear from a Muslim than they do a Christian. They are just too stupid to realize it.
-Jon
How fashionable
Submitted by 4Deuce on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 4:23pm.
How fashionable raw, unaplogetic religious bigotry has become in the land of the Liberal....
Tolerance you say? Not here - we're liberals.
"The governor forecasts
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm.
"The governor forecasts divine punishment for those who hold different political views."
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Perry believes anyone who thinks differently than he does should be punished.
Liberals believe anyone who thinks differently than they do should be punished.
Wow,,,great choice.
Perry does not believe...
Submitted by Truxillo on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:45am.
Perry does not believe anyone who thinks differently SHOULD be punished. He believes in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which says those that believe in Him will have everlasting life and that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to be savior of the World. God says those that choose to receive this free gift of salvation will have everlasting life. Those that choose otherwise will not. It's your choice. God does not want anyone to perish, that's why He provided away for us not to.
Shoot the Messenger
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 1:45pm.
Agreed.
This "shoot the messenger" reaction is of the same ilk as saying that someone who reads and ignores the "DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!" sign, then grabs hold of the Metro's third rail can legitimately blame the sign for the resulting surge of electrical current that fries him to a crisp.
Then again, according to the oft-praised eloquent wisdom of Ozymandias-in-the-White-House, a child is viewed a "punishment" for having unprotected sex. Not all that different, I suppose. Can't have individual choice be the determinant of the consequences of the free-will choice now, can we?
As has been said, God will never capriciously "send" anyone to Hell against their will. Grieved though it makes Him, He will merely honor their freedom of choice by granting their request.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
holy smokes
Submitted by kata on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 4:45pm.
This election cycle you'd think the MSM just discovered Christianity. The courier just breathlessly came into the clearing and on his dying breath he says "He's... he's... Christian." and everyone is looking omniously into the woods. GASP!
I'd like to know what legislation he's put together that earns him the statement "[his] politics are religious in a way not seen before in modern-day mainstream presidential candidates".
He's no libertarian? *shocked*
i havent seen
Submitted by misterbee241 on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 12:04pm.
this much religious frenzy in the media since jimmy carter declared he was a born again christian. that really made their heads explode. they had no understanding of it at all.
Milbank
Submitted by Curly on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 5:05pm.
So, Milbank is an atheist if he doesn't. What does that have to do with all the problems in the U.S.? Milbank is a dipshit anyway.
I was thinking that maybe
Submitted by gailannr on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 12:09am.
Dana should pray about what is bothering him. It seems like he is having a real problem with life as he knows it.
The more I read and hear
Submitted by 4eyes50 on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 5:14pm.
about this guy, the more I like him. This is exactly the kind of president we need right now.
We do not need to apologize
Submitted by TruthMonger on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 5:35pm.
We do not need to apologize that Christianity founded this nation and built it into greatness. The pilgrims came here for religous freedom. God's name is invoked constantly in founding documents. "In God We Trust" is on the money and His name is inscribed all over government buildings in the US. Our military cemetaries are covered with crosses and stars of David.
I'm proud of our continuing Christian history - it has been vital to our national success.
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Milibank doesn't think period.
Submitted by russedav on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 5:47pm.
If he'd had his way, the Founders would have been executed or put in one of his fascist soviet gulags to be re-educated. Of course that also means there would have been no First Amendment for him, and he would have been killed long ago, having no freedom of the press. How ironic for such deranged antiChristian bigots that the only safe place for them to live is in Christian or once-Christian nations, for if he'd been in Cuba or China he'd have either prostituted himself before the regime or been executed long ago.
Had Dana Milbank resided in 1930s Germany...
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 8:57pm.
...he would have had a great career writing for Der Stürmer.
-Dave
Milbank
Submitted by Llewsilverhand on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 9:14pm.
I want some of what Milbank is smokin'!
Dried cow pies aren't worth
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:27am.
Dried cow pies aren't worth it.
Obama claims to be a Christian
Submitted by Al Teal on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 11:26pm.
President Obama claims to believe that Jesus is Lord. Our messianic president wouldn't lie, would he?
So does Bill Clinton so one
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:25am.
So does Bill Clinton so one has to assume Milbank considers Obama and Clinton to be theocrats. I guess LIBERAL theocrats are acceptable to Milbank.
Dana Milbank and his fellow
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:25am.
Dana Milbank and his fellow liberals just love throwing non sequiturs out there. However it invalidates their arguments since they are basing them on such fallacies.
Obama
Submitted by misterbee241 on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 12:00pm.
called Jesus a liar twice that i know of. i dont see millbank jumping on that. oh wait, that's consistent with millbank's worldview. sorry about that.