Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
This story doesn't sit well with me:
With nothing else working, President Barack Obama is asking religious leaders to help him sell the public on health care reform.
POLITICO listened in to an Oval Office conference call Tuesday, where Obama and top administration officials, beseeched thousands of faith-based and community organizations to preach the gospel on new insurance reforms, chiefly the Patients’ Bill of Rights.
“Get out there and spread the word,” Obama told leaders from across the religious spectrum on the conference call, organized by the Health and Human Services Center for Faith-Based and Community Partnerships.
Any preacher that uses even a second of his time in front of his congregation to preach the saving power of the federal government instead of the salvation of God isn't worth his salt. Moreover, a religious leader who uses his authority to hawk the gospel of a government policy is engaging in the worship of the false god of government and leading his flock astray.
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May '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
The Liberal mantra is now what? That separation of church and state is only illegal in the third person, such as their church and your state? But legal in the first person such as your church and our state?
May '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
Any preacher who does this is engaging in politics and he and his church should loose their tax exempt status.
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
EJHill: The Liberal mantra is now what? That separation of church and state is only illegal in the third person, such as their church and your state? But legal in the first person such as your church and our state? · Sep 23 at 12:48pm
No separation of church and state required if the church is the state.
Jun '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
It reminds me of the double-standard of yore ... churches that speak out on behalf of the right get threatened with loss of tax-exempt status, while churches that speak out on behalf of the left invite politicians to stand in their pulpits without nary a complaint.
Pastors, ministers and priests alike are all citizens, and entitled to their views, of course, and welcome to share them with whomever they wish. But it is one thing for a religious organization to provide information on available government services to those in need, and another thing entirely to become a tool of the government PR machine.
Aug '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
This is what really marks Obama as evil, a grave menace to our nation and the world. It's called Collective Salvation, and it's part of Liberation Theology, which he gained from the Rev. Wright.
It's Marxism/Progressivism in disguise, preaching that Jesus was a social justice community organizer, and there is no salvation unless everyone has material salvation. Therefore, the full machinery of all-powerful government must be brought to bear on all social ills. Religion then becomes a tool of government, and inevitably, private property rights have to disappear, because it's all needed for the collective.
This is pure heresy. Jesus preached that God is personal, and wants a private relationship with each of us individually; that many, perhaps most people, will reject God, and be "burned in the furnace as chaff"; and the kingdom of this material world is evil; that we must "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and to God, that which is God's."
Jesus: "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be [killed]: but now is my kingdom not from hence."
May '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
All bow down to the Obamessiah! This does not surprise me. Obama believes that government will solve all the problems in America. Also, look at Reverend Wright as the example of Mr. Obama's chosen spiritual leader of many years, and you will see how he expects such a person to behave.
May '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
I'm not alone, I know, in wondering whether Obama was, in truth, a clever cynic, a well-meaning blunderer, or a seriously delusional true-believer in the all-beneficial power of government. We have our answer.
Anyone who could make this request with a straight face really believes that he has exclusive hold on "the good", and that what he does is the true way to prosperity.
This is scary. When it becomes painfully obvious that it isn't working, such believers usually begin looking for evil conspirators.
Aug '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
River & Diane: All I can say is "Amen." Heresy indeed. Confusion of the two Kingdoms. But, those on the Right have done the same. There wouldn't be a Health and Human Services Center for Faith-Based and Community Partnerships if it wasn't GWB. (and Marvin Olasky, the editor of World Magazine.)
Aug '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
Diane Ellis, Ed.
EJHill: The Liberal mantra is now what? That separation of church and state is only illegal in the third person, such as their church and your state? But legal in the first person such as your church and our state? · Sep 23 at 12:48pm
No separation of church and state required if the church is the state. · Sep 23 at 12:52pm
Right on Diane - the line is certainly getting blurred. I saw two of the same bumper sticker on a car the other day that had "Obama" bracketed by two peace symbols and "Have Faith". Yikes.
Aug '10
Re: Preaching the Gospel of ObamaCare
The church is where the African American community has done all of it's work forever. It's completely natural for him to do that. All the meetings were either held in the church basements, the community rooms in the apartment housing complexes , or union halls ( they have that covered).
No surprise here. Nor should there be any that he wasn't getting any religion sitting in the Rev Wright's church for all those years. He was just go over the speech he would be giving after the chicken dinner which always followed those fiery sermons. Iced tea and chicken were the grease that eased the message of community involvement, his metier.