In the news…
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/10/dem-compares-obama-to-jesus/
I’m sorry, but comparing Obama to Jesus, and Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate is utterly stupid. Absurd. It shows an absolute lack of understanding of the faith of the followers of Jesus and attaches ridiculous religious heroism to Obama while vilifying Sarah Palin. For no good reason.
Here’s a few facts:
- Obama was a great community organizer who did work to bring the community together. Jesus was a traveling Rabbi who wasn’t accepted by his own community.
- Obama speaks eloquently and is admired by the public. Jesus was despised and rejected by men.
- Obama wants to bring the nation together under a banner of change and hope. Jesus came to bring a sword, that is, truth which divides.
- Obama is running for the most lofty office in the world, riding the waves of popularity, changing the status quo, and briging reform to the political government. Jesus, a man with no beauty or majesty to make him attractive, came to be a friend to the friendless, to wash others’ feet, and to challenge the religious status quo.
- Obama wants the government to be a bigger component in fixing all society’s problems. Jesus IS the fix for society’s problems.
- Obama is a man that uses many words and phrases to defend himself when attacked. Jesus turned the other cheek.
The implied imagery in this Obama/Palin contrast is that Obama is the stainless Messiah, loved by all…and Palin is the villainous governor who is bound and determined to crucify him. Absurd. Like I said, it shows either a total misunderstanding of the events of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus, or a total lack of respect.
Now, before you think I’m posting this to show my total love and support for McCain/Palin, I want my readers to know that I am not posting this to show my support for the conservative ticket, but to show my disgust with what the media tends to run with.
It’s lame. It’s subjective. It’s bad journalism.
Please report on something that will actually help me make an informed decision. I don’t care about he said, she said. I don’t care that Obama said this about McCain, or McCain said that about Obama. I want to know what they are DOING. Give the public something real to base decisions on.
I’ve come to the conclusion that election coverage is run the same way that “entertainment” divisions of these news outlets are run. They’re not looking to report news. They want to report the juiciest, sensational, gossip available. Can we grow up please?
September 16th, 2008 - 10:21 am
thank you.
also, the media’s (in general) treatment of the election and “issues” is forcing people like us to feel like we need to defend our candidate. someone twittered or blogged the other day about how negative everyone is about the “other” candidate, while not saying anything nice about their own. it’s kind of difficult to do that when it’s all you have to go on.
i’m tired of it.
September 16th, 2008 - 10:37 am
glad i had missed those articles… what a wasted read.
September 16th, 2008 - 2:30 pm
Look at you - gettin’ all political on us!
September 16th, 2008 - 3:13 pm
Not really sure if standing up for my Jesus, is political or not…but honestly today’s post is more about the drivel that the news outlets latch onto and pass off as news, instead of reporting real stuff.
What I fear though, is that both candidates and parties are so worried about unsmearing the smears from the opposite side, that they are not talking about the real issues. Part of the blame, in my opinion, is the candidates themselves slinging mud, and the other part is the sensational stuff called “news” that clogs the airwaves.
Yay.
September 16th, 2008 - 7:44 pm
Obama was a community organizer trained by disciples of Saul Alinsky. According to Alinsky, a community organizer used political judo against the established government to gain power, goods and services for the poor.Alinsky was a self described atheist and Marxist who freely described his methods as “amoral”.
The dedication in earlier printings of Saul’s book on how to be a radical agitator, “Rules for Radicals”, is to Satan who he styles as the original agitator — as in community agitator. That term has now been softened to community organizer.
With that background, I believe that I can confidently state that to call Jesus a community organizer is as pure a blasphemy as you can find.
Merrill Guice
http://www.thedailyegg.net