My Brother's Keeper?

This is a major pet peeve with me.  Let us see the latest misrepresentation of this phrase from one of our wonderful politicians:

GAH!

The phrase "my brother's keeper" exists in one place and one place only in the Bible.  It's in Genesis:

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And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground."

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Wha't going on here?  Cain is lying to God.  He knows damn well where his brother is and he's lying about it.  To God.  This has always been fascinating to me and speaks to what I consider to be a huge problem on the Left today (the "reality based community" my foot).

There is no implication in this passage which indicates that we are or should be "our brother's keeper".  The phrase is simply there to indicate the bold-faced nature of the lie that is being told by the murderer Cain.

Jesus never used the phrase.  It doesn't appear anywhere else in the Bible, and the word "keeper" doesn't even appear in the New Testament in the New International Version.  The King James version uses the word 'keeper' for 'guard' and so it shows up there, but not in this context and certainly not in the context of a sermon that we should be "our brother's keepers".

This disgusting perversion of meaning by religious illiterates pretending to be men of deep and abiding faith really chaps my unmentionables.  And yes, I'm talking about Obama here, but he's hardly the first politician to pull this crap.  I imagine it is more common on the Left since they are always looking for another excuse to steal from us, but I'm sure some RINO has done it too.

Just stop it, it bugs me.

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