{"id":145683,"date":"2021-02-18T13:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=145683"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:58:03","slug":"7-of-the-most-cringeworthy-religious-mishaps-from-leading-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-of-the-most-cringeworthy-religious-mishaps-from-leading-leftists\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Of The Most Cringeworthy Religious Mishaps From Leading Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F7-of-the-most-cringeworthy-religious-mishaps-from-leading-leftists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=145683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1141563372-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Western civilization \u2014 heavily influenced over the course of two thousand years by the Judeo-Christian worldview \u2014 serves as the foundation of the United States\u2019 intellectual, religious, and cultural realities.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The teaching of the Puritans and the earliest evangelicals informed the American Revolution and its resulting philosophy of government. As a result, American politicians for nearly 250 years have invoked Christian theology when addressing the public.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While modern American Leftists have attempted to follow in these footsteps, they often miss the mark. Here are seven theological mishaps from leading Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Swalwell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>During an MSNBC interview about President Trump\u2019s impeachment proceedings, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/god-herself-rep-eric-swalwell-claims-god-is-female\"><span>referred<\/span><\/a> <span>to the Creator of the cosmos as \u201cGod herself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe choice was, do we chase those people, not knowing what they\u2019re going to say, to the courts for years or do we go forward with the powerful, thundering case that we have?\u201d asked Rep. Swalwell, who served as an impeachment manager despite reports of his<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html\"><span>involvement<\/span><\/a> <span>with a Chinese spy. \u201cAnd also knowing that Mitch McConnell was already telling us that he believed the challenge was a jurisdictional one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo we could have called God herself, and the Republicans weren\u2019t going to be willing to convict, so we\u2019re proud of the case we have put forward,\u201d Swalwell added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both the Old and New Testaments consistently reveal God in male terms (Psalm 68:5, Romans 1:7). Jesus Christ is described as the Son of God (Psalm 2:7, Matthew 16:16) and as the husband of the Church (Ephesians 5:22-24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernie Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently grilled Russ Vought \u2014 President Trump\u2019s nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget \u2014 for his adherence to biblical Christianity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the confirmation hearing, Sen. Sanders repeatedly<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/national-news\/articles\/2017-06-08\/bernie-sanders-questions-trump-budget-nominee-russell-vought-on-christian-faith\"><span>cited<\/span><\/a> <span>a 2016 article that Vought had written about the relationship between Christianity and Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sen. Sanders<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SPD9aiLKKoc\"><span>focused<\/span><\/a> <span>particularly on Vought\u2019s affirmation that \u201cMuslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAre you suggesting that all of those people stand condemned?\u201d Sen. Sanders asked Vought. \u201cWhat about Jews? They stand condemned, too?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vought clarified that he believes \u201call individuals are made in the image of God\u201d no matter their religious convictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSenator, I wrote a post based on being a Christian and attending a Christian school that has a statement of faith that speaks clearly with regard to the centrality of Jesus Christ in salvation,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Indeed, Vought\u2019s assertion is almost identical to several Biblical statements about the doctrine of salvation. The Gospel of John, for instance, teaches that \u201cWhoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.\u201d (John 3:18)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Critics<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usconstitution.net\/xconst_A6.html\"><span>argued<\/span><\/a> <span>that Sen. Sanders\u2019 line of questioning violated Article 6 of the Constitution, which states that \u201cno religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>In spite of his support for abortion and transgenderism, the 46th President often touts his Roman Catholic<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/president-biden-takes-office\/2021\/01\/23\/959939815\/biden-is-catholic-he-also-supports-abortion-rights-heres-what-that-could-mean\"><span>religion<\/span><\/a><span>. Nevertheless, he recently<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-devout-catholic-joe-biden-does-not-know-how-to-pronounce-famous-book-in-bible\"><span>mispronounced<\/span><\/a> <span>one of the most foundational books of the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During his Thanksgiving address, Biden said \u201cAnd if we do, and I\u2019m sure we can, we can proclaim the palmist (ph), with the palmist (ph) who wrote these following words, \u2018The Lord is my strength and my shield.\u2019\u201d Presumably, Biden was quoting Psalm 28.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The word \u201cpsalm\u201d is pronounced with a silent \u201cp.\u201d Because the book of Psalms is among the longest in the Old Testament and among the most quoted by the authors of the New Testament (Acts 4:25-26, Romans 3:10-18), most casual church attendees would be familiar with its pronunciation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emanuel Cleaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>As he opened the 117th Congress of the United States, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)<\/span> <span>\u2014<\/span> <span>an ordained Methodist minister<\/span> <span>\u2014<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amen-and-awoman-minister-invokes-hindu-god-offers-gender-lesson-during-opening-prayer-for-117th-congress\"><span>appealed<\/span><\/a> <span>to a Hindu god and ended his invocation with \u201camen and awomen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Cleaver\u2019s prayer borrowed many Christian references and themes, but ended on a note that left many Americans scratching their heads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe gather now in this consequential chamber to inaugurate another chapter in our roller coaster representative government,\u201d he prayed. \u201cThe members of this august body acknowledge your sacred supremacy and therefore confess that without your favor and forbearance, we enter this new year relying dangerously on our own fallible nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and \u2018god\u2019 known by many names by many different faiths,\u201d said Cleaver. \u201cAmen and awomen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Hinduism, Brahma is a four-faced god who emerged from the navel of another deity named Vishnu. In contrast, the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crcna.org\/welcome\/beliefs\/creeds\/athanasian-creed\"><span>Athanasian Creed<\/span><\/a> <span>\u2014 professed by all Christian denominations \u2014 states that \u201cthe Father was neither made nor created nor begotten from anyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The word \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/lang\/lexicon\/lexicon.cfm?t=kjv&amp;strongs=h543\"><span>amen<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d is used throughout the Bible in reference to completeness or affirmation (Numbers 5:22, 1 Corinthians 16:24). In the original Hebrew, amen means certainty or truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Raphael Warnock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Weeks before the Georgia runoff election, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) proudly announced his support for abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Warnock, who worked as a Baptist minister for several decades,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReverendWarnock\/status\/1336490801413632002\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a> <span>\u201cI am a pro-choice pastor\u201d \u2014 a comment that earned over 260,000 likes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Two dozen African-American ministers wrote a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/two-dozen-black-pastors-write-letter-to-raphael-warnock-decrying-his-abortion-views\"><span>letter<\/span><\/a> <span>in rebuke of then-candidate Warnock\u2019s proclamation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a Christian pastor and as a Black leader, you have a duty to denounce the evil of abortion, which kills a disproportionate number of Black children,\u201d they wrote. \u201cYour open advocacy of abortion is a scandal to the faith and to the Black community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Citing Psalm 139, the pastors affirmed that \u201cabortion is fundamentally in conflict with the plain reading of the Bible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCan you in good conscience defend abortion, knowing that abortion kills 474 Black babies for every 1000 live births?\u201d they asked. \u201cAbortion decimates Black communities, disrupts Black families and inflicts untold harm on Black women.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Penn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to powerful political figures, prominent celebrities with left-leaning views tend to offer ill-informed opinions about theology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following President Trump\u2019s impeachment proceedings, actor and director<\/span> <span>Sean Penn<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sean-penn-botches-theology-evangelical-trump-leaders-should-be-impeached-by-the-vatican\"><span>suggested<\/span><\/a> <span>on Twitter<\/span> <span>that \u201cevangelical leaders should themselves be impeached by the Vatican if they themselves don\u2019t follow Nikki Haley\u2019s lead &amp; clearly state they should not have followed Satin into the bowels of hell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Commentator Allie Beth Stuckey pointed out the multiple<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conservmillen\/status\/1361091297017266185\"><span>errors<\/span><\/a> <span>in his statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know if anyone\u2019s given you a clear explanation of what you got wrong here, but the pope is Catholic and evangelicals are not, so he has no authority over what they do,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cThat\u2019s one. Two, they can\u2019t be impeached. Three, it\u2019s velvet. Velvet is in hell, not satin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The evangelical movement began in Protestant territories during the eighteenth century. As Protestants, evangelicals do not submit to the authority of the pope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alyssa Milano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Actress and singer Alyssa Milano \u2014 a staunch advocate of abortion \u2014 misquoted the New Testament while attempting to defend her belief in \u201cscientific facts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI love God. I believe in God,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cBut I don\u2019t believe my personal beliefs of which we can\u2019t confirm should override scientific facts and what we can confirm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She then cited John 3:12 to support her point: \u201cIf I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The third chapter of John records a conversation between Jesus and a Pharisee named Nicodemus about the nature of salvation. Milano, therefore, fell subject to an interpretive fallacy called \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/eisegesis\"><span>eisegesis<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d \u2014 reading one\u2019s own ideas into a biblical text.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018I believe in something but I have no idea why exactly I believe it so killing babies is OK with me,\u2019\u201d<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1112826604705574913\"><span>quipped<\/span><\/a> <span>The Daily Wire\u2019s Ryan Saavedra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western civilization \u2014 heavily influenced over the course of two thousand years by the Judeo-Christian worldview \u2014 serves as the foundation of the United States\u2019 intellectual, religious, and cultural realities.\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888241,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}