Nancy Pelosi is being called out for repeatedly quoting a Bible verse that doesn’t actually exist:
FOX NEWS – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is Catholic, loves to quote her favorite passage from the Bible. She’s been doing it for more than a decade, and she did so most recently when she addressed Christian educators at the end of January. But there’s just one problem: the verse doesn’t exist.
Years ago, to support a push for global warming legislation, she said in an Earth Day press release: “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.’”
Pelosi has quoted the false passage at least 11 times from the House floor since 2002, according to the Congressional Record.
Slate is the one that chose to investigate this Bible verse:
Slate reported that she has used it to recognize genocide in Darfur, support the Endangered Species Act, and twice to honor Catholic schools. She was publicly criticized in 2008 but seems to acknowledge that, of the thousands of Bible verses to choose from, she can’t pinpoint exactly where it is.
“I can’t find it in the Bible but I quote it all the time, and I keep reading and reading the Bible. I know it is there someplace,” Pelosi told the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities conference last Wednesday. “It’s supposed to be in Isaiah, but I heard a bishop say 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’s in there somewhere in some words or another, but certainly the spirit of it is there,” Pelosi said. “And that we all have a responsibility to act upon our beliefs and the dignity and worth of every person.”
An Old Testament professor at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary said the verse doesn’t exist and there isn’t anything that approximates it.
According to an associate professor at Whitlock University, Proverbs 14:31 is the closest analog he could find, which says “Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.”
There’s no doubt that the Catholic church has a heavy focus on justice and I believe that is absolutely a form of worship. James tells us that caring for orphans and widows in their affliction is what religion is all about:
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
That being said, it doesn’t surprise me that Pelosi is quoting ‘scripture’ in the vaguest possible sense, and that what she’s actually quoting doesn’t exist.
But what bothers me even more is that she’s a huge hypocrite of even the fake verse she keeps repeating. Pelosi is a major advocate for the killing of the unborn and has even used her legislative powers to support it. Yet in this ‘verse’ she claims that ignoring the needs of God’s creation is to dishonor God.
WHAT IS MORE BASIC THAN THE NEED FOR LIFE???
I think these actual words from Jesus from Matthew 23 sums up Nancy Pelosi better than I ever could:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Amen.