Bodie Hodge: I'd rather a Jew die than fib to a Nazi

Another possible title was, "Bodie Hodge Makes God Facepalm."

Bodie Hodge, consistently the dumbest person at Answers in Genesis by several orders of magnitude (impressive, that), but who presumably can't be fired because he is helping Ham produce the next generation of idiots (I was going to say "banging the boss's daughter," but that would be crude), has really jumped the boxcar full of emaciated Jews. When dealing with Bodie, you need to understand that he is, in almost the clinical sense of the term, a genuine idiot.

I'm a little late on this one, but it needed saying.

Recently Bodie got into what passes for a thoughtful conversation at Answers in Genesis when a letter came in, which read in part:

Bodie is almost always right on the mark and is probably my favorite feedback man, but in this case I have to take exception to his saying that it is always wrong to lie . . . The ninth commandment says we should never bear false witness against our neighbor (or anyone). But if the Nazis are looking for Jews, and you know where they are, it would not be wrong to lie, in order to protect them, nor would this be bearing false witness “against” someone . . . I think in the same way the Israeli midwives lied to the Egyptians about the birthing of male babies in Moses’s day . . . I know its a rare exception, but there may be other circumstances when it might be appropriate to “lie”, although obviously, 99% percent of the time it would be wrong .

Bodie is my favorite feedback guy, but probably for entirely different reasons. See if you can locate the litotes in his opening line:

Thank you for contacting Answers in Genesis and thanks for the comments. I know this can be a touchy subject, but please bear with me as I try to explain. Keep in mind that I, too, am not perfect but will try to answer as scripturally as possible.

He goes through a couple of unrelated passaged in the Bible about people lying, misses the fact that when god kills someone for lying, he's totally overreacting, and then concludes:

In light of such passages, does a “righteous lie” really exist? The most common example sent to me was envisioning the Holocaust and being placed in the position of lying to potentially protect someone’s life. Like most, if placed in such a difficult situation, it would be very difficult. In fact, I could never be sure what I would do, especially if it were a loved one.

But consider for a moment that we are all already sentenced to die because we are sinners (Romans 5:12). It is going to happen regardless. If a lie helps keep someone alive for a matter of moments compared to eternity, was the lie, which is high treason against the Creator, worth it?

It would be like sitting in a cell on death row and when the guards come to take your roommate to the electric chair, you lie to the guards and say you don’t know where the person went—while your roommate is hiding under their covers on the bed. Does it really help? Since we are all sinners (Romans 3:23), death is coming for us, and there is an appointed time (Ecclesiastes 3:2).

Basically, the Jew had it coming. That'll teach you to seek shelter in Herr Ubersturmdouchebag Hodge's house.

Your analogy is shit, Hodge. Let's say that the inmate hiding under the covers was guilty of the crime. A case can be made that this guy is well and rightfully screwed. But the bunch of Jews, whose trip to hell, from your point of view, you are hastening (as they march out your door, do you think they'll have a favorable view of Christians?), they have done nothing wrong other than being born into a world with Christians, who somehow think that everyone is basically awful from conception because some distant relative was convinced by a water moccasin to eat a knowledge apple. Sucks to be the Jew.

If you really believe that God would have you turn in innocents, Bodie, you are a moral Munchkin and no better than that demented deity of yours. I'm with Huck on this one: “All right, then, I'll go to hell”

HJ