Fact Checking is an observation by Jack Rusher, published here Thursday, October 14, 2004. It is part of Objet Trouvé.
Rhetorical Device’s crack team of fact checkers debunk a statement made by Bush at the last debate.
Bush claimed in the debate last night that “God loves freedom,” but this turns out not to be the case. We have examined God’s record on freedom, wherein we have found the following disturbing statements:
- “Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever.” — Leviticus 25:44-46
- “Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward.” — 1 Peter 2:18
- “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.” — Ephesians 6:5
- “A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.” — Proverbs 29:19
- “Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.” — Leviticus 25:44
- “And when the Lord thy God hath delivered [a city] into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.” — Deuteronomy 20:13-14
These revelations help to clarify the administration’s religious foundations, and offer a possible explanation for the president’s otherwise inexplicable reference to the Dred Scott ruling, as well as his zeal for the issuance of indentured servitude identity cards to immigrant laborers.