Obama issues fatwa
Apparently, Barack Obama, boy-Senator, is threatened by the faithful Christians because he issued a fatwa in the form of raw red meat for Leftists. According to USAToday;
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right-wing U.S. evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division.
“Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a 30-minute speech before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.
“Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us,” the Illinois senator said.
“At every opportunity, they’ve told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design,” he said, according to an advance copy of his speech.
“There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich,” Obama said. “I don’t know what Bible they’re reading, but it doesn’t jibe with my version.”
Hmmm. I don’t remember the Christian Coalition preaching tax cuts for the rich. I remember some passage from the Bible about “render unto Cesaer that which is Cesaer’s and render unto God that which is God’s”.
And I think that Obama is saying that paying taxes has something to do with Christian charity – which is just too ridiculous for a rational person such as myself to discuss.
I’ll admit that the Christian Coalition is operating under the false assumption that they can legislate morality, but I think they’re mistaken. I also think that the Christian Coalition has much less influence in the Republican party than Obama would care to admit.
Not a week goes by that I don’t get a hate-filled email from some Leftist that accuses me of being a Bible-thumping lunatic, even though it’s been ten years since I set a foot in church. Somehow the entire Left is operating under the misapprehension that all Republicans are religious fanatics – I just think a person can be a good and charitable person without adhering to some set of religious tenets – it doesn’t mean I don’t believe in God or Jesus.
I can believe that abortions are wrong on purely secular grounds – I don’t need Bible verses or a Pope to tell me that intentionally killing unborn babies is evil. I don’t need a Jerry Falwell to tell me that homosexuality is unnatural and immoral.
It’s people like Obama that are using religion to divide America – its their own cowardice of being judged evil that makes them mistrustful of the faithful.  His speech yesterday was less about bringing the faithful together than about dividing this country even further – for his own political gain.
Crotchety Old Bastard and Marathon Pundit’s John Ruberry eat Obama’s lunch while The Barack Obama Report carries his water.Â
