Yesterday, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds asked whether Barack Obama was a Christianist, based on mailers the Obama camp is circulating in Kentucky. As he seems to have made the charge tongue-in-cheek, he should recognize that the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago follows Black Liberation Theology, which fuses religion and politics by an essentially Marxist interpretation of the Bible (as explained in some depth at the link).
Indeed, the Obama quote from the mailer — “My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work” — is entirely consistent with that theology. That quote does not appear in the prior religious brochures the Obama campaign circulated in South Carolina, though those mailers included “religious appeals at least as overt and explicit as anything [Mike] Huckabee has done,†according to no less a member of the VRWC than Glenn Greenwald.
The reappearance of such mailers should not be surprising, given the tricky position in which Obama now finds himself. He is losing support among regular churchgoers. He is stuck trying to inform low-information voters that he is not a Muslim, but not in a high-profile way that might prompt questions about his relationship with Trinity and his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The days of more overt faith-based appeals, when he could openly claim (in Ohio, no less) that the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions is over.  Stealth is the order of the day, at least for now.
I am religious but it is racist to actually question me about my religion.
I don’t know what you guys expect him to do. How else is he going to convince those poor, white, old racists to vote for him?
I think if he’d posed with a gun in that one picture he would have really been hititng his target audience.
This is really what America needs right now to get back on track: more pandering to religious morons who think–among other things–that evolution is some sort of socialist conspiracy. Forget about the hopeless war, loss of jobs, the mortgage crisis, the sinking dollar, affordable health care (or lack of it), gas prices, alternative energies, and all of those other things that might actaully imporve the quality of our lives. We need a good Christian in the White House, damn it!
Oh, boy.
I can feel the wrath of Thor approaching on the horizon….
dave – Consider yourself fortunate that the point did not hit you in the forehead, instead of flying right over your head.
That must be nishit’s co-worker.
What is it about lower-case “dave” folks that make them such bigots?
Yes, because all religious folks think evolution is a socialist conspiracy.
O!
dave,
“Forget about the hopeless war”-there is always a hope, no matter how long and how many lives it will take;
“loss of jobs”-but as a true internationalist, aren’t you happy somewhere else on our small planet gets our jobs?
“the mortgage crisis”- don’t borrow if you can’t sustain the income level
“the sinking dollar”- good for exports
“affordable health care”-why should poor have the same health care or life expectancy as me? Health care follows the rules of market economy, just like food in grocery stores(?)
” gas prices, alternative energies”-drill Alaska, that will solve all the problem.
See, dave, glass is half full
This is really what America needs right now to get back on track: more pandering to religious morons who think–among other things–
Why do we even let religious morons live? I swear … we need a poll tax or something. They would have to stay home clinging to their bibles and guns, just wishing they had the money to vote. And THEN America will become perfect.
Since when have liberal democrats pandered to anyone religious? Abortionists, yes; evironmental-nazis who want to strangle America’s oil supply, yes; collectivists of all stripes, yes; anti-religionists of all stripes, yes. But anyone truly religious?
I don’t think liberals – true liberals – know what that means because they demean it. I mean, didn’t Nancy Pelosi state that Mother Teresa did wonderful work, but it was real shame that Mother Teresa was so ignorant that she opposed a woman’s right to kill her baby?
He will Unite us!
O!
See, dave, glass is half full
Apparently there’s no dearth of Koolade.
You are really just flat out stupid, sashal. What do you do to earn a living?
Odd how the “true conservative” sashal sounds just like a progressive.
I don’t know Rob, I always considered myself a true liberal.
I am that much stupid, Peden, so I can’t work, I am on welfare…
And I keep my PhD papers hidden way deep in my file cabinet, I prefer to collect and live off your taxes….
“And I keep my PhD papers hidden way deep in my file cabinet, I prefer to collect and live off your taxes….”
PhD huh?
That usually means you know a whole lot about very little.
Lessee, who would I rather be trapped on a desert island with. Someone with a Phd or someone with carpentry or agricultural skills. Boy…that’s a tough one.
Why of course Democrats are religious as long as their Government is the God to be worshipped; Democrats are happy because finally their prophet has come to lead the sheep to their slaughter.
#17
who would I rather be trapped on a desert island with. Someone with a Phd or someone with carpentry or agricultural skills.
Absolutely with somebody with carpentry or agricultural skills, I would not want to be there with somebody like myself….
I am that much stupid, Peden, so I can’t work, I am on welfare…
What kind of welfare?
trying to inform low-information voters that he is not a Muslim,
don’t you mean low-IQ voters, Karl?
In which sense of the term? The modern sense (which means “progressive”), or the classical sense (which modern American conservatives best fit)?
Because, frankly, your positions and arguments are straight out of the progressive playbook.
If he had meant you, he would have used your name.
Carin,
You forgot your meds. I strongly suspect your question about “we” does not include you personally doing anything, financial or personal, in support of your objective.
Read the Constitution. The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free expression thereof…
“We” support the Second Amendment as well. Dream on.
Definitely a progressive — a leech and proud of it.
No wonder Goldberg’s book gets his tits in a bind. Strikes mighty close to home…
Uh, MarkD, Carin was being sarcastic. Playing off the “dave” comment earlier in the thread.
yawza! the left sep of church and state people don’t care!
it’s a miracle!
MarkD – I don’t need meds! Between my all-organic diet and vinyasa yoga I have a clarity that you theocons lack.
Not to even mention my superiority over poor, stupid, older white people.
Shshsh Rob, It’s raining, and I’m bored. Why should Thor get all the fun?
– Hey. Its perfectly alright for O! to be religious. The new Narrative(tm) will now be “Anything he says or does, will immediately become accepted practice and the working dogma”.
– See how it works.
– (The confusion among the SicFrogs that this will beget is not noticed since they are in a constant state of confused thinking at all times anyway.)
yes, Rob, I am fascist leech.
– BTW. These sorts of PR efforts just underline how badly things like the 67-24% loss in WV last night must be scaring the crap out of the Obama-ilummillatti.
– But remember. Its not racist but racial. Get your identity groups straight here. Its probably just that the poor bible clinging Appalachians don’t like big ears. Yeh. Thats got to be it.
Indeed, the Obama quote from the mailer  “My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work† is entirely consistent with that theology.
Yes, after reading Obama’s blasphemous words of prayer I feel twelve tiny red martian Marxists tearing at my tightened sphincter trying to infiltrate me so as to pervert my capitalist intentioned neural network, basically to “fuck mah head up”, as they say. Feel the burn, yes, I best go wipe my butt just in case.
Guns and butter, Fuck Yeah!
ts probably just that the poor bible clinging Appalachians don’t like big ears. Yeh. Thats got to be it.
Of course. They’ve got those little, top third missing, low hanging ones.
I think if he’d posed with a gun in that one picture he would have really been hititng his target audience.
Depends on the make/model, doesn’t it?
Ugh. I am completely disgusted. It takes a great deal to completely disgust me. But Obama has done it.
– At this point the Dems are litterily drowning in a sea of identity politics of their own making. I will not laugh.(much)
This is why I defaulted on my investment in the outcome of this election after You Know Who clinched “my” party’s nomination. It’s much more pleasant to be amused at both sides’ expense than to be in a continual state of disgust — which is, unfortunately, where I would be if I cared who won in November.
Ask me about 1992 some time.
#32, thor, paraphrased: bend over, “Obama is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”
– sashal. You’re supposed to remove the butt-plug at least 8 out of every 24 hours, for proper evacuation and airing. The scripture can be suspended for these brief periods.
– The O! expects all good Komrads to take care of their minds and their bodies. Do not confuse the ball gag with the butt-plug. They are for entirely different purposes. That is all. Carry on.
If you put the two parties side by side and analyze which party is more openly hostile to christianity, it is somewhat shocking to me that any christian would choose the democratic party. I’m not saying democrats can’t be christians but I am saying that the democratic party pushes a patently unchristian agenda on a number of issues and maybe of its denizens are openly hostile to religion of any type (see dave). I think the pandering to the “religious” on the side of the left is to get in good with the rural voters, especially the union workers who may vote democratic for the financial benefit but still go to church on Sunday.
“My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s workâ€Â
Obama, I think, takes the old adage to a new level:
“Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.”
Becomes:
“Teach a man to demand a fish.”
…and he’ll vote for you forever.”
Pins and Crosses (UPDATED: A Counter to the Muslim Rumors?)
Barack Obama has picked up a couple of previously disdained (non-human) tools to wield in the home stretch of the Democrat primaries: flag pins and crosses. (At first, I wondered why he’s even bothering. Then I realized that this Christian-
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– At this point the Dems are litterily drowning in a sea of identity politics of their own making. I will not laugh.(much)”
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