June 24,2008 – Secular Faith – isn’t that oxymoron? Well, it really is, but that hasn’t stopped Barack Obama and many other politicians from trying to create it. Obama’s marxist underpinning have given him the impetus to try to mix his secular progressive view of government with his quasi-religious background in an effort to use America’s Christian heritage against itself, and get it to overturn it’s Judeo-Christian morals. Karl Marx, Vladamir Lenin, Fidel Castro and all their ilk have for years taught that religion is the opiate of the people. Now Barack is doping the American public to get them to vote for him. Even after two years have past, and he has had to disown his own pastor and church of twenty years, Obama is still defending statements that he made in a speech to the Call to Renewal’s 2006 conference. Recently Dr. James Dobson dedicated a large portion of his daily radio broadcast to rebut Obama’s speech because Barack actually used Dr. Dobson’s name in his address, and it appears that only recently did the Christian psychologist find out about the reference. In any case, the substance of the debate is plenty current, given the fact that faith is to play a major role in this years election, as it has in many recent ones.
This issue at hand is, does Barack Obama really have a Christian faith? When his 2006 speech is read, it is clear that Obama espouses more clearly a secular faith than a Christian one. He seems to indicate that a Christian can live in ignorance of or read without understanding the Bible when it comes to many political issues, and still call himself a Christian. He proposes that Christians believe faithfully in private, but in public accept the popular wisdom, or risk being branded a radical (even though he submitted to Wright’s radicality for twenty years without taking his own advice).
For instance, on the issue of abortion, Barack claims that evangelical Christians need to articulate their opposition to abortion, not on the grounds of the tenants of their religion, but rather on “a principle that is accessible to all faiths, including those who have no faith at all.” This is presented as some novel, ground-breaking idea, when in truth, this is exactly what has been done all along without result. The simple principle is that human life begins at conception and abortion is murder, when it is not an absolute medical necessity. Most all of the religious world agrees with that. It is only the wayward or ignorant sector of those who are in disagreement with their church (like Obama) who think otherwise. And, those who have not faith, will not accept even that simple reasoning.
That statement alone is impossible to make for a man of true biblical faith. However, in Barack’s world of half-truths that he believes will lead him to the oval office, these contradictions make perfect sense. It makes sense because Barack Obama is not stupid, he is marxist. He hopes to use religious ideology against the religious to gain political power over them. Hopefully, it just leads America’s Christians to completely disregard this newcomer as a popular speechmaker, but too naïve to be President.
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