Living Journey

Barack Obama is making headlines and those head lines have very spiritual and religious overtones!
There is this site called “Is Barack Obama the Messiah?” and on that site I found the following…

For the very first time in my life, I feel compelled to stand up and to speak out for the man who I believe has a new vision for America, . . . I am here to tell you, Iowa, he is the one. He is the one!”

“We’re all here to come together – to appreciate our uniqueness and to treasure our diversity, and we’re here to evolve to a higher plane . . . The reason I love Barack Obama is because he is an evolved leader who can bring evolved leadership to our country. . . .

. . . When you listen to Barack Obama, when you really hear him, you witness a very rare thing. You witness a politician who has an ear for eloquence and a tongue dipped in the unvarnished truth…(source)

What puzzled me is this. As I watched the youtube it quotes accurately on what Oprah had said about Obama, except for one thing… “and we’re here to evolve to a higher plane…The reason I love Barack Obama is because he is an evolved leader who can bring evolved leadership to our country.”

I have watched the video three times now and cannot hear that in her speech! But what she does say is that Obama is one man who has moral authority and that he speaks the unvarnished truth…

She speaks of Obama’s moral authority and his tongue being dipped in the unvarnised truth… hey! But what about his moral stand on abortion? Would anyone care to tell me where his morals are when it comes to the issue of abortion? Apparently he is an advocate for partial birth abortions. I have also heard it said that he is so extreme left, that if he was to roll over in bed he would wake up on the extreme right side, or words to that effect!

One thing I know for sure is that Obama according to some is becoming Messiah-like. Just because he is on the left do not think for one moment that spirituality/religion is not finding its way in through the back door.

Related:

Obama the Messianic

A savior offering messages of “the truth” and hope.

By Rich Lowry

In her stump speeches on Obama’s behalf, Oprah zeroed in on the heart of the matter: Obama’s post-political messianism. In South Carolina, she declared that it isn’t enough for candidates to tell the truth, “We need politicians who know how to be the truth.” One wonders if in the news reports, it were merely a transcription error that “the truth” wasn’t rendered in divinized capital letters.

Michelle Obama spoke in the same terms: “We need a leader who’s going to touch our souls. Who’s going to make us feel differently about one another. Who’s going to remind us that we are one another’s keepers. That we are only as strong as the weakest among us.”

This isn’t merely overpromising. It’s a creepy inflation of a political figure into a secular version of the Second Coming. Oprah implied the same thing, quoting a film in which an old, long-suffering woman asks every child she meets — in a question fraught with messianic symbolism — “Are you the one?” Oprah continued, referring to Obama, “It’s a question the entire nation is asking — is he the one? South Carolina — I do believe he’s the one.”