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Barack Obama has identified himself with Christianity as a cloak for his
political agenda. The founder of community organizing, Saul Alinsky,
regarded churches as an ideal vehicle for advancing the Marxist cause. But
to have credibility in organizing churches, young Obama needed to join a
church.
So Bill Ayers' recruit was sent to Chicago's Trinity UCC. There he found in
Jeremiah Wright a mentor of kindred spirit, obsessed with race and loathing
America. Its mission statement declares Trinity's purpose is to be "agents
of change for God who is not pleased with America's economic
mal-distribution."[1]
Obama the skeptic was especially impressed by the emotional effect of
Wright's preaching on the congregation. From Wright's sermons he discovered
that the rhetoric of Christian myths can be a powerful instrument for
Marxism. The webpage of Wright's "talking points" identifies Trinity UCC as
"a church whose theological starting perspective starts from the vantage
point of Black liberation theology being its center."[2]
Wright's own mentor James Cone, the founder of this Marxist religion of
racial hatred, defined its core premise:
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally
with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against
white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of
black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . .
. Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the
destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed
in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their
oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is
participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.[3]
This year Wright defended what he has preached for decades: "I do not in any
way disagree with Dr. Cone."[4]
At Trinity, that Marxist and racist core supplants Jesus Christ, the
starting point and center of the Christian faith. In the apostolic gospel a
person's race is irrelevant, for all believers are one in their relationship
to the risen Christ, transcending the ethnic distinctions of this age such
as Jew and Gentile.[5] Just as Nazis replaced Jesus the Jew with an Aryan
Galilean, Wright's "Jesus" is the black man perpetually suffering injustice
from whites, in a "theology" defined by flesh. In his final sermon at
Trinity, Wright even likened his "Jesus" to Obama:[6]
Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a
culture that was controlled by rich white people. . . . Barack knows what it
means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled
by rich white people.
For two decades, Obama observed how effectively Wright transformed the
christ myth into Black Power.
When discussing his alliances, his agenda, and his "faith," subterfuge is
Obama's dominant trait. Surely then, it was with unintended candor he
disclosed the nature of his interest in Christian verbiage. Openly
identifying himself with skeptics of the secular Left, in The Audacity of
Hope Obama wrote that "we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the
power of faith in the lives of the American people." "When we abandon the
field of religious discourse . . . when we discuss religion only in the
negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced . . . when we shy
away from religious venues and broadcasts because we assume that we will be
unwelcome - others [from the Christian Right] will fill the vacuum."[7]
For Obama the Left's aversion to religion is detrimental precisely because
it prevents them from framing their agenda with moral authority, a failure
to use the far more effective rhetoric of religious language:
Scrub language of all religious content and we forfeit the imagery and
technology through which millions of Americans understand both their
personal morality and social justice.[8]
We need to take faith seriously not simply to block the religious right
but to engage all persons of faith in the larger project of American
renewal.[9]
For Obama, that "larger project" of his agenda is America's servitude to
Marxist socialism, for which Christian verbiage can be made a tool of
manipulation. As far back as 1995 Wright's disciple and Bill Ayers' protégé
disclosed that to establish the "new age" of collectivist "salvation" will
require compulsory "sacrifice" of Americans' liberty:
I worked as a community organizer in Chicago, was very active in
low-income neighborhoods ...and seeing that in some ways certain portions of
the African-American community are doing as bad if not worse, and
recognizing that my fate remains tied up with their fates. That my
individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective
salvation for our country.
Unfortunately I think that recognition is going to require that we make
sacrifices and this country has not always been willing to make the
sacrifices necessary to bring about a new day and a new age.[10]
Obama knows that his tactical bible -- Alinsky's Rules for Radicals -- is
dedicated to the original community organizer, someone so successful that in
this figure mythology and history merge. Alinsky was referring to "the first
radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so
effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer." "The organizer
is in a true sense reaching for the highest level to which man can reach -
to create, to be a great creator,' to play God."[11]
Obama's insights for exploiting Christianity to advance the Marxist cause
are a result of combining Alinsky's tactics with what he learned from Wright
for two decades. He has also had strategic help: over ten years ago, Obama
and "evangelical" Jim Wallis -- another community organizer -- collaborated
"to plot building a coalition of progressive and religious voters," as The
New York Times phrased the scheme.[12] But strategy goes only so far; for
the ruse to work, a demagogue needs stagecraft. "If you want to understand
where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from," Wallis revealed, "just
look at Jeremiah Wright."[13]
While Wright's racist tirades against America would never fare well in
electoral politics, Obama had learned from Alinsky to be sensitive to
middle-class "aversion to rudeness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them
easy, don't scare them off."[14] From his own experience Obama confirmed
that being genial is an effective way to beguile people:
It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had
learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and
made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved --
such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't
seem angry all the time.[15]
His genial demeanor explains in part why many Americans are drawn to Obama.
To support him assuages white guilt for racial sins of the past, while at
the same time they are reluctant to doubt him for fear of being racist. They
cannot admit to themselves that this nice, well-spoken man was mentored by
Wright for two decades, is a longtime ally of an unrepentant domestic
terrorist, and that he himself embraces their agenda. Obama's charm is an
effective tactic, one of those tricks that he learned.
Obama's exploitation of Christian myth stems from long being a creator of
his own myths. At the age of ten he told classmates that "Obama" means
"Burning Spear," that he was the son of an African prince, destined to rule
the tribe if he desired -- and was so convincing that he almost believed it
himself.[16] Known to all from grade school to college as "Barry," in 1980
he told family members to address him so no longer;[17] from now on, he is
"Barack Obama" in solidarity with his Kenyan father, a Marxist
economist.[18] Barry thus re-invented his identity as a symbol of his
growing commitment to "social justice." His Dreams memoir itself is a
fictionalized narrative, with names and chronology changed, key figures and
events omitted, and others made up.
For his presidential campaign the mythmaker has re-invented himself once
again, with strategist David Axelrod as the source of his teleprompted
scripts. Having no achievements qualifying him for the nation's highest
office is offset by Obama's legendary insight and judgment as one of
profound spirituality. Obama fancies himself a thinker of deep thoughts, a
channeler of collective consciousness, an oracle of prophetic utterance.
Four years ago he said:
...the most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my
actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to
a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out
of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or
clever. . . .
I think it's the power of the recognition of God, or the recognition of
a larger truth that is being shared between me and an audience. That's
something you learn watching ministers, quite a bit. What they call the Holy
Spirit.... there are moments that happen within a sermon where the minister
gets out of his ego and is speaking from a deeper source. And it's
powerful.[19]
It is unknown whether the following oracles were from a deeper source or
channeled through the teleprompter. Reportedly the prophecies were repeated
in multiple locations; two samples are quoted here. These occurred in
January 2008, as Christians celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany,
commemorating that the light of a star appeared over Bethlehem; to the magi
this light attested Jesus' messianic birth.[20] Being filled with power and
true to himself, Obama prophesied that his rhetoric will be so effective
that voters will believe in his anointing:
At some point in the evening, a light is going to shine down and you
will have an epiphany and you'll say, "I have to vote for Barack."[21]
... a light will shine down from somewhere. It will light upon you. You
will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, "I have to vote
for Barack. I have to do it."[22]
This verbiage echoes also the Book of Acts' accounts of Paul's conversion,
where the disbelieving Pharisee is overwhelmed by the presence of light, the
risen Jesus identifies himself, and Paul realizes that this is the
Messiah.[23]
It was all a calculated ploy of Prince Barack the Burning Spear, phrased as
a messianic epiphany. Exploiting what Obama regards as the christ myth, his
campaign has derived his religio-political image from Wright's "theology" --
as a black messianic hero coming to establish social justice, repair racial
inequities, heal America's broken soul and save the planet from the United
States.
For this ruse to work, like his childhood classmates the voters must be
unfamiliar with his background -- or not care at all. Obama has admitted
that with his ideology and agenda unknown to voters, "I serve as a blank
screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their
own views."[24] That is actually a tactic he uses to his advantage, and it
is evident that subterfuge is intended.
Campaign volunteers are trained to redirect inquirers' attention from
political issues to focus on Obama's celebrated personality.[25] The
strategy is to make him a human Rohrschach test, with voters projecting him
to be what they want him to be - not the Marxist radical he really is.
When reading from the teleprompter he speaks unfathomable generalities with
an aura of thoughtfulness, creating for the masses an illusion of nuance,
conviction and depth. Charmed by his voice's cadence, audiences project on
Obama their personal views, without concern to evaluate who he really is.
His speeches affirm mutually exclusive ideas with calculated ambiguity --
"on the one hand ... on the other hand" -- so that all may perceive their
own issues are being validated or addressed. In this electoral version of
American Idol it is common for Obama's infatuated fans to answer, if asked
to identify his accomplishments or agenda: "I like him, and I feel the
country is ready for change."
Star Wars creator George Lucas, an inventor of fictional heroes, has
identified another, acclaiming that "for all of us that have dreams and
hopes, he is a hero," "a hero in the making."[26] Crowds chant his name, and
women mesmerized by his presence have fainted in Obamanic swoons.[27] New
Age Gnostics identify Obama as an angelic lightworker bringing the world to
a higher plane of consciousness.[28] Deepak Choprah describes him as one who
"knows himself deeply, sincerely, and truly," with "grounding in
self-awareness. . . . Watching cynical reporters and political commentators
believe in him almost simultaneously is breathtaking."[29] Feeling a thrill
go up his leg, MSNBC's Chris Matthews verified: "This is the New
Testament."[30]
Oprah Winfrey, the TV evangelist for New Age fundamentalism, is adamant that
Jesus cannot be Lord of all, for all paths lead to the consciousness she
calls divine. Yet at a campaign rally she invoked the messianic motif of a
hoped-for deliverer in hailing Obama: "He is The One! He is The One!"[31]
A critic discerns: "In his speeches, Obama pretends to be a hero out of
Joseph Campbell."[32] The preliminary title of a Chicago Tribune reporter's
book on him was The Savior.[33] That author says "throughout his life,
[Obama] has been able to make people of wildly divergent vantage points see
in him exactly what they want to see."[34] With his heart's adulation
another journalist compares the efficacy of Obama to Christ:
He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over
color, over despair. . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to
our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal,
and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and
thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence."[35]
The grandiosity of his vacuous platitudes attests to secularists and
churchgoers alike that Barry is a transcendent figure embodying their
utopian ideals. "We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change
that we seek,"[36] the messiah of hope and change confirms of himself.
"Change we can believe in" is the campaign's faith-slogan for Barry's
messianic ruse. Decrying America's sin of economic inequality, Michelle
Obama touts that he is the only presidential candidate who understands "we
have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."[37] Mimicking
an evangelistic crusade's call to salvation, rally organizers have
encouraged followers to share personal testimonies about how they "came to
Obama."[38] "People don't come to Obama for what he's done in the Senate,"
admits a strategist. "They come because of what they hope he could be." [39]
The earliest Christians believed that in Jesus' ministry, death and
resurrection his witnesses had heard and seen God's revelation of
everlasting life, the dawn of the new creation, the beginning of the world's
redemption for which believers hope.[40] What the New Testament says of
Jesus, the Marxist messiah has claimed for himself and his followers:
We are the hope of the future; the answer to the cynics who tell us our
house must stand divided; that we cannot come together; that we cannot
remake this world as it should be.
Because we know what we have seen and what we believe -- that what began
as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will
not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will
heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all
the rest.[41]
"Your individual salvation depends on your collective salvation," he often
refrains. The Gospel of John says Jesus told Pontius Pilate "my kingdom is
not of this world,"[42] but Obama purports to do better, telling Christians:
"I am confident that we can create a kingdom right here on earth."[43]
Winning enough delegates for the nomination, Obamessiah announced to the
gathered multitudes that the time of fulfillment had come, that the world's
salvation had begun:
I am absolutely certain that generations from now we will be able to
look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to
provide care for the sick ... This was the moment when the rise of the
oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal . . . This was the moment,
this was the time, when we came together to remake this great nation.[44]
Deeply skeptical of the Christian faith himself, he commended his followers
for not being skeptical of his ruse: "You chose to listen not to your doubts
or your fears, but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations."[45]
The cult of the Marxist messiah has been effective, and one of his apostles
claims it warrants inclusion in the Bible. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.
hailed Obama's presumptive nomination as "the single most extraordinary
event" in American history, even a redemptive act of divine revelation: "The
event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the
Bible to chronicle its significance."[46]
No Christian would ever portray himself as a messiah with powers to heal
America's soul, establish a kingdom on earth and save the planet. In
contempt of Jesus Christ and in exploitation of the Christian faith, Obama
and his comrades crafted his messianic image as a religious mask to conceal
his Marxist ideology and agenda and to generate a personality cult of
gullible voters.
As the background for his acceptance speech at their convention, the
nation's socialist party staged the façade of an ancient Greek temple -
ironically, as if to honor pagan divinity. Later the son of the founder of
community organizing wrote praise of the campaign as "a fine tribute to Saul
Alinsky":
The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly
organized event, Saul Alinsky style.
Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is
showing its effectiveness. It is an amazingly powerful format, and the
method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the
supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a
powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama
learned his lesson well.[47]
The Marxist messiah may yet win his own kingdom, as Alinsky had lauded of
Lucifer. By contrast, in Jesus' obedience to God he not only resisted the
first community organizer but opposed him all the way to the cross:
Then the devil ...showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their
magnificence, and he said to him, "All these I shall give to you, if you
will prostrate yourself and worship me." At this, Jesus said to him, "Get
away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him
alone shall you serve."[48]
[1] "Mission," Trinity United Church of Christ.
[2] "Talking Points," Trinity United Church of Christ.
[3] James H. Cone, Black Theology and Black Power (New York: Harper & Row,
1969), p. 27.
[4] "Rev. Wright at the National Press Club," FoxNews, April 28, 2008.
[5] Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11.
[6] Video posted by Michael van der Galien, "Two Extreme Pastors,"
Poligazette, March 13, 2008.
[7] The Audacity of Hope. Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New
York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), pp. 213-214.
[8] Audacity, p. 215.
[9] Ibid, p. 216, italics supplied.
[10] "Barack Obama Dreams From My Father,'" Eye On Books, August 9, 1995,
italics supplied.
[11] Rules for Radicals, p. 61.
[12] Jodi Kantor, "A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith," New
York Times, April 30, 2007.
[13] Ben Wallace-Wells, "Destiny's Child," RollingStone, February 22, 2007.
[14] Rules for Radicals, p. 195.
[15] Dreams, pp. 94-95, italics supplied.
[16] Dreams, pp. 63-64.
[17] "When Barry Became Barack," Newsweek, March 22, 2008.
[18] His father was ousted from the government when Kenya's president
cracked down on communist agitators. His Marxist views are manifest in:
Barak H. Obama, "Problems Facing Our Socialism," East Africa Journal, July
1965.
[19] Falsani transcript of March 27, 2004 interview, italics supplied.
[20] Matthew 2:1-11.
[21] North Charleston, South Carolina, January 24, 2008 (Gal Beckerman,
"Seeing the Light in South Carolina," Columbia Journalism Review, January
25, 2008).
[22] Lebanon, New Hampshire, January 7, 2008 (CNN, January 7, 2008).
[23] Acts 9:1-22; 22:6-10; 26:13-23.
[24] Audacity of Hope, p. 11, italics supplied.
[25] John Hill, "Obama Basic Training," Sacramento Bee, January 21, 2008).
[26] "George Lucas on Obama: A Hero in the Making,'" The Huffington Post,
June 4, 2008.
[27] James Taranto, "We Shall Be Overcome," Wall Street Journal Online,
February 14, 2008.
[28] Mark Morford, "Is Obama an Enlightened Being?" San Francisco Chronicle,
June 6, 2008).
[29] "Obama and the Call: I Am America,'" The Huffington Post, January 5,
2008.
[30] Quoted in Felix Gillette, "Primary Scream," The New York Observer,
February 5, 2008.
[31] Winfrey speech in Des Moines, Iowa, December 8, 2007.
[32] Jack Shafer, "How Obama Does That Thing He Does. A Professor of
Rhetoric Cracks the Candidate's Code," Slate, February 14, 2008.
[33] Wallace-Wells, "Destiny's Child," referring to David Mandell's book,
now published as Obama: From Promise to Power.
[34] Mandell, quoted in Mike Littwin, "Obama's Change' Could Be More Than a
Coined Phrase," Rocky Mountain News, August 29, 2007.
[35] Ezra Klein, "Obama's Gift," The American Prospect, January 3, 2008.
[36] "Barack Obama's Feb. 5 Speech," New York Times, February 5, 2008,
italics supplied.
[37] Michelle Obama speech at UCLA, February 3, 2008.
[38] Hill, "Obama Basic Training."
[39] Bruce Reed, Democratic Leadership Council president, quoted in
Wallace-Wells, "Destiny's Child."
[40] 1 John 1:1-3; Romans 8:16-25; Galatians 1:1, 4; 5:5-6; 6:14-15.
[41] "Barack Obama's Feb. 5 Speech."
[42] John 18:36.
[43] Peter Hamby, "Obama: GOP Doesn't Own Faith Issue," CNN, October 8,
2007.
[44] "Barack Obama's Remarks in St. Paul," New York Times, June 3, 2008.
[45] Ibid.
[46] Josephine Hearn, "Black Lawmakers Emotional About Obama's Success,"
Politico, June 5, 2008.
[47] L. David Alinsky, "Son Sees Father's Handiwork in Convention," Boston
Globe, August 31, 2008.
[48] Matthew 4:8-10.
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Jeremiah Wright comrade Louis Farrakhan on this very theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2oqS5VwSbg
- Bob
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