Tom DeLay is a bastard (but then we knew that...)

[winterbadger]

Amazing display of callous hatefullness. This (Tuesday) morning at 9am, C-SPAN had a live telecast of the 109th Congressional Prayer Service from a church on Capitol Hill. There were some sentiments shared about the recently-passed Bob Matsui and Shirley Chisholm, and, amidst the scripture readings, reminders from a few Congressmen about the Christian foundation of our government. Others spoke of the Asian tsunami tragedy.

Then Tom DeLay gets up to the pulpit, and -- striking a beautiful note in light of the 150,000 dead from the floods referenced by his colleagues -- lets loose with some Matthew 7, beginning at verse 21.

(Many thanks to ben for the heads up on the exact wording, and to DemWatch for directing us to this transcription of the reading and MP3.)

Saith DeLay:

"A reading of the Gospel, in Matthew 7:21 through 27.

Not every one who says to me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven; but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Many will say to me on that day, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?

"Then I will declare to them solemnly, 'I never knew you: depart from me, you evil doers.'"

Everyone who listens to these words of mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man, who built his house on a rock:

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew, and buffeted the house, but it did not collapse; it has been set solidly on rock.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine, but does not act on them, will be like a fool who built his house on sand:

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew, and buffeted the house, and it collapsed and was completely ruined."

He finishes reading, says nothing more, and sits back down.

from http://amcop.blogspot.com/2005/01/choice-words.html

Comments

[mazzie.livejournal.com]

rrrrgggghhhhh
arrrggrrrffffpppppmmmm

ARARARARARAGAAAAAAAAARGH


*stomp off*

meh

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

This brings tears to my eyes. We *know* that these countries are primarily Muslim. These poor poor people are living hell now and this world doesn't need to be subjected to hearing this. I know many many Christians who would rather quote Mt 25:35:

"For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a Stranger and you Welcomed me,
"I was naked and you clothed me,
I was sick and you visited me,
I was in prison and you came to me.'
"Truly, I say to you, as you did it to
one of the least of these, my brethren,
you did it to me."

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

indeed. And Matthew 7, interestingly enough, begins "judge not, lest you be judged," but I don't know if he actually knows that.

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Amen.

And thank you for this. :-)

[deza.livejournal.com]

So nice of him to pick a passage that applies so aptly to his own bigoted self.

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Really. In a government so thoroughly dominated by DeLay's own Republican Party, it takes an eye-popping ethical violation to motivate the Ethics Committee to issue a reprimand. DeLay has been reprimanded three times in the past year.

Surely no man in D.C. is less worthy of sounding holier-than-thou!

[blueinva.livejournal.com]

I hope he's soundly buggered in prison...

[winterbadger]

Would that that were a likely eventuality....

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Well, that just...bleah.

They all die.

[bright-serpent.livejournal.com]

They all die eventually. All of them, no matter how hateful, no matter how much they think God loves them; they all die.

When they do, one of two things happens. One, nothing. They're corpses. That makes their lives a living joke, and the humor (and hope) there is profound.

Two, there IS some divine being. If it's not Christ, then he's totally boned. If it IS Christ, I somehow don't see the same man/Son of God fellow who rescued whores, tax collectors, and "unclean people" who were outside of the Jewish faith, then created a new religion to allow the outsider in, taking kindly to Delay.

So...he's boned, regardless, to put it simply. I do take some small comfort in that fact, although I pray for (and would prefer) him to wake up to his cruelty and callousness.

Re: They all die.

[winterbadger]

There is the outside chance that there is a God, and it's one that actually would send a tidal wave that kills hundreds of thousands just because they don't worship him, or because they take sex holidays, or because they're Muslims who kill other Muslims. Mr. DeLay, after all, claims to believe in a God who sent bears to tear little children to pieces because they disrespected their elders.

But I like your alternatives better. :-)