Comments on: Politicians’ favorite Scriptures

By: Xion

Xion — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:05:57 +0000

True Alisa. Using ‘faith language’ for political expediency can be found on both sides. But what is unique in this election cycle is a new approach by the left that is fascinating to watch.

I’ve always associated dominionism with misguided religious conservatives who see government as a way to impose heaven on earth, meaning supposed Christian ideals on America.

Now Obama is preaching dominionism too, but in a subtler way. He clearly states here that he wants to use government to do God’s work. Once he becomes the most powerful man on earth, he will lead the ‘Joshua Generation’ into the Promised Land.

What is funny is that he speaks in a continuous stream of vapid religious terms that most people do not notice, ’stripped of its true context’ as you say. ONLY BELIEVE!

So now liberals are feasting on a continuous diet of diluted religious epithets and loving it! Obama proposes to marry a liberal brand of religion and government like never before in an attempt to create a Utopian society where all is peace and love.

Obama explains that separation of church and state only applies to intolerant religious conservatives. By redefining religious language in universal terms, he can have free reign to impose his social religion on America to the cheers of millions.

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By: Alisa Harris

Alisa Harris — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:13:16 +0000

I agree with your analysis, Xion. I’d add that I wonder if faith is reduced when any politician borrows “faith language” for political ends, especially in a day when politicians (including GOP ones) are speaking to a heavily secular audience. If they’re going to reach that audience too, it seems that they have to strip the language of its true context and meaning to avoid being offensive. Then they’re just manipulating emptied words to conjure up vague feelings of warmth and brotherly love. In other words, I wonder (I’m not entirely sure) if this is just inherent in the practice itself rather than dependent on the politician.

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By: Xion

Xion — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:02:38 +0000

At the top of Barak’s web site he explains what he means by FAITH:

“I am asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington … I am asking you to believe in yours.”

In other words, you must have faith in Barak, faith in Washington and faith in yourself.

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By: Xion

Xion — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:30:35 +0000

Faith without works is dead, but liberals have their own definitions for these terms.

When Obama speaks of faith, he means faith in Washington. When he speaks of hope, he means hope that government will solve your problems. When he speaks of works he means spending other people’s money.

That isn’t what James had in mind.

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By: Dick Friedrich

Dick Friedrich — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:15:08 +0000

Using scripture to advance one’s own agenda is nothing more than breaking the commandments to have no other Gods before the Lord and to not take God’s name in vain. God will not be used in this way regardless of how much people want to make Him fit their agendas.

It is a measure of our lack of humility before God that we are so quick to tolerate God being presumed upon. We might not be surprised by the press perpetuating this sort of perspective since we have come to trivialize God so easily in our own lives. Rather than using God’s word casually the leaders we need should help us to appreciate attitudes and values that revere God as God and recognize our fallibility.

Instead of looking for perfect leaders we should look for leaders who speak and act out of brokenness before their Maker. I’d be willing to bet it would even sell more papers.

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By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:06:04 +0000

Oh yes, the Book of James, the easiest one in the Bible for cherry picking by a political panderer. Good works with government money buys a lot of votes. Obama’s personal tithes and contributions, as revealed by his tax records, are pathetic.

But government money, spent with religious zeal and rhetoric, allows a politician like Obama to wear a cloak of righteousness, while he appeals to the people with class warfare rhetoric, and attempts to purchase the White House at no cost to himself.

Pretty slick.

It’s a classic con-man fraud. Then Obama adds an extra touch of icing to his Marxist cake. Leftist white elites and their brainwashed college lemmings can also “prove” that they are not racists by voting for him.

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