This has to be one of your best, Erick.

I appreciate this post very much. I too have been upset by the comparison of what Obama did to what the Savior of mankind did. He constant actions and words made it clear that His kingdom was not of this earth and that neither was his focus. I applaud you for your stance and especially for the realization and statement that souls are far more important than elections. It reminds me of what C. S. Lewis wrote in The Weight of Glory:

“All day long we are in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in light of these overwhelming possibilities it is with awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play,* all politics.* There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations–these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit–immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. . . . And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners–no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.
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The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbour’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you may talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and corruption such as you now meet if at all only in a nightmare.”

I think that we do well to remember this.

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“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” – Ronald Reagan

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis

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It is also a religion of the blind. I frankly therefore find it less than startling they would make such comparisons.

Liberals and in particular, Obama, are always talking about how you need the government; how you are dependant on them and how they are going to use that power to make your life better.

This oratory is of course nothing more than specious platitudes which ultimately do nothing to make your personal situation better in the long run. It also breeds a contemptable, divisive society at odds with each other; certainly a relevant point in contemporary times.

Very simply, Jesus taught us about personal responsibility. He never walked around preaching how a Roman or Jewish governments were the agents of change and would somehow make your life better.

This is why our founders generously and often invoked God’s name and spoke of rights provided by God. That is also why our government is one of enumerated rights; not compelled and driven by far reaching charitable causes and perceived needs.

Liberals need servile dependancy to perpetuate their own religion. So they build fallacious analogies to what we all know in our hearts is a true basis for human compassion, decency and ultimately our societal bond.

I can think of nothing more despicable and misleading.

Sir,

I have been a lurker here for some time. I value and enjoy this blogs and its writers. I have only now registered to thank you for this post.

I am a Reformed Christian –I eschew the term ‘evangelical’ since it has been perverted and co-opted– whose heart grieves over the vast ignorance, open blasphemy and, at times heresy so prevalent in blogs, print media and tv.

The views put forth by such people elicit only pity from me. And prayer. They are missing life, and life abundant.

I could go on for an hour bout this political season, but that is not my intent in commenting. For in all that I read I always keep clearly in mind that we vote against principalities and powers not of this world.

Like Mr. Alinski before them, those that curse the name of the Lord and Savior serve only their father: the father of all lies.

Thanks to you and all of your colleagues for the work you do. It does not go unnoticed.

and you’re no Jesus.

If you were, you would be telling Bill Ayers to go and sin no more not accepting his help to get you into politics.

But John McCain’s one commercial, which blatantly also compared Obama to Jesus, wasn’t blasphemous? That was OK and inoffensive to the evangelical community?

Great piece but it will fall on deaf ears amongst the lefties.

and so did Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas was never a Governor! And Obama was never Christ or even Judas.

Well done.

but I think it is bigger than that. The Catholic Church is no longer tolerating nonsense on issues of sin, scripture and morality. Surely this has to grate on the ears of Catholics, as well. American public life may soon be divided between Christian and pagan.

During his three years of ministry here on earth, Jesus was first and foremost a teacher (“Rabbi”). To call him a “community organizer” at once demeans Him, and completely misrepresents His time among us. I cannot think of anything put forth by any campaign in my living memory that is more stupid than this.

The only organization the community had was to gather together to crucify Him. And it bears mentioning that when His disciples ran, abandoned and denied Him, the ones who sat at the foot of the cross and first saw Him while walking from the tomb were WOMEN.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

and why they won’t listen.

First, they think we’re stupid and this is just the killer comparison they’ve been trying to find for decades to win over religious voters.

Second, they believe everything in the Bible can be condensed into one or two proof texts that they know, typically “cast the first stone” is the limit of their knowledge.

Third, never having studied the Bible beyond said proof texts it never occurs to them that anyone else has.

Fourth, they don’t believe Christ is the Son of God. At best they think he’s some kind of New-Age-Space-Music guru at worst he’s one of our many delusions.

… is about as offensive as any Democrat attempt at marginalizing Christians has ever been. I remember during the 2000 presidential race, Al Gore speaking to a group of Christians and his attempt to present his bonafides as a Christian by attempting to “talk the talk” only he didn’t do so well. He said his favorite scripture was John 16:3 and spoke briefly on John 3:16. The sweetness of the gaffe became apparent to anyone who actually reads the bible:

“These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me. -John 16:3-

Eric is absolutely correct on what a Community Organizer does. He is also absolutely correct on how Satan deceives people to get the to act on his behalf. It is a very simple thing to do, if you follow Satan’s Community Organizer model. All you have to do is look in the book of Genesis and see how Satan got Eve to take a bite of the forbidden fruit.

And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ” -Genesis 3:1-3-

Satan takes a bit of the truth and twists it just enough to get you to do his bidding.

So it is with Community Organizers.

The job title of Community organizer is irrelevant since you are neither elected or hired. Therefore, it’s what you do or don’t do while in the job that matters. Obama didn’t accomplish much as a community organizer except spending millions of dollars on a failed liberal school ‘improvement’ program that didn’t achieve ANY of its goals. Hardly a resume enhancement.. He did, however, bolster his connections with shady real estate folks scamming the poor areas of Chicago.

Mega dittos, Erick.

The New Testament is divided into the Law and the Gospel. The Gospel is God’s love for us manifest in His grace and mercy through Jesus. The Law is our obedience and accountability to God — when we have a true relationship with God, necessarily we must have a new relationship with sin.

Many churches ignore the Law and preach only the Gospel — specifically, a social gospel that demands good works of governments, as well as individuals, and considers God’s Law “judgmental.”

No wonder so many are confused about who Jesus was, how he lived, and what he said. Fortunately, there is a book that can correct all misconceptions.

Well said, Erick. The blatant mis-use of sacred tenets magnifies how the left does not understand the Christian right. Many in our great land will be repulsed by the “religion for convenience” angle.

The wikipedia article that you quote has been edited in over 25 ways in September by someone called Mtngoat63. That includes adding the information of the dedication to Lucifer. Most of the editing happened in the last two days. Wikipedia seems sketchy to me sometimes.

and we’re fortunate it did. If it were a petition, I’d sign my name beneath it large and loud.

Some will mock, but that’s how things have always worked.

I think Axelrod (Obama) is risking more than the ire of evangelicals and practicing Catholics. Anyone who considers his or herself to be a Christian, has to be at the very least uncomfortable with the comparison. Christians, no matter how avid, know the story of Jesus’s life. They know why He was here.

That is something the Obama campaign should not touch. God is not mocked.

I have been a lurker for a very long time and have enjoyed this forum very much. I come here for much of my information.

I just have to thank you for this wonderful post and the well needed reminder (yes, I very much needed this reminder) that there is more than just politics at stake here and that we should pray for those that take our Lord so lightly.

Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.

I have been a lurker for a very long time and have enjoyed this forum very much. I truly appreciate what you do here.

I just have to thank you for this wonderful post and the well needed reminder (yes, I very much needed this reminder) that there is more than just politics at stake here and that we should pray for those that take our Lord so lightly.

Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.

I didn’t think it posted the first time!

I almost feel sorry for them because they have been so ignorant of what they are doing…….almost

But I get upset at the idea of community organizing being (IMHO) falsely denigrated by associating it with the likes of Lucifer and Barabbas, as much as it being falsely venerated by associating it with Jesus.

Maybe I’m naive. When I think of “community organizing”, however, I think more of the likes of Daisy Bates here in my state of Arkansas. She wasn’t a saint or a hero or a religious leader. She wasn’t a demon or a busybody, and her cause was not “nonexistent” or “a small matter”. She wasn’t the Savior and she wasn’t the Devil. She was just a person.

I would rather not see hyperbole either way.

Does the Left have a point? Politics aside, might it be true that Obama is literally the Christ, having returned to earth?

Erick, you suggested that comparing Obama to Jesus was blasphemy, a sin that is unpardonable. Well, that’s not quite accurate. In Matthew 12:14-37, the unpardonable sin is described as “blasphemy against the Spirit”, which is contrasted against pardonable sins such as “any sin and blasphemy” (see Matt. 12:31). So, blasphemy proper is not unpardonable, but blasphemy against the Spirit is. In context, the Pharisees accused Jesus of healing a blind, dumb and demon-possessed man by the power of Satan (“Beelzebul”) so it would seem that characterizing a miraculous act of Jesus as the activity of Satan is most likely the blasphemy of the Spirit.

Of course, those comparing Obama to Jesus may well be “lost”, but it is likely more due to their unwillingness to trust in and follow Jesus (of which committing blasphemy would be one “fruit”), but not because they are blaspheming the Spirit.

The Obamaniacs are in free fall and it’s only going to get worse.

Might as well make them a new campaign poster:

when trying to win over NON Christian voters and the secular, the proper way to attack the libs on this is to state, “I thought you guys wanted religion OUT of government? Now you are claiming that Obama is the Messiah and Palin is the Roman who killed the messiah?!”

that is much more effective when targeting the MAJORITY of voters- one of the problems of the GOP in the last 8 years is a feeling that it is a Christian conservative party- not a conservative party. I would rather win elections based on the Constitution and promoting conservative GOVERNANCE- not christian dogma..

To this idiotic “Jesus was a community organizer/Pilate was a Governor” meme is to remind the other side that Pilate’s great sin was that on the most important matter to ever come before him, he simply voted “Present.”

… and despite not being all that interested in seeing Obama win, I wince every time another Democrat says this. It suggests, I think, that Obama and his campaign do not at all understand the country they are campaigning to govern.

As a Christian, it sounds like a better word would be “Christians” instead of evangelicals. But then again, to have people denigrate people as Christians would not gain them many votes.

As a born again christian & biblical scholar, i have found McCain’s to be deeply offensive & unfortunately could have scored an own goal.