Assimilation

In the lead up to November's general election, Barack Hussein Obama is pretending to inch his way toward the center, and away from the from the far left base that helped him win the Democrat nomination. During a speech in Zanesville, Ohio, BO announced his plans to expand President Bush's faith based programs. Obama spoke of the importance faith based groups have played in his own life and of the role they can play for our country, saying "leaders in both parties have recognized the value of a partnership between the White House and faith based groups":

"Partnership" or hostile takeover?  President Bush envisioned faith-based initiatives as an alternative to government welfare bureaucracies that do nothing but hold the "poor" down, keep them enslaved in dependence upon the federal dole, and breed all kinds of destructive social pathologies the perpetuate the welfare underclass and have for years.  Indeed, the genuine altruism of religious charities - of which the spiritual dimension is an indivisible component, and ultimately the central point - and their much bigger "bang for the buck" were and are the biggest and most effective argument for shifting the manning of the "safety net" to those most genuinely motivated to make it work as, well, God intended.

Messiah has the reversal of this dynamic in mind.  Namely, the secularization and bureaucratic ensnarement of faith-based organizations into the left-wing orbit via the same basic dynamic as the libs' former welfare clientele: dependence upon federal dollars.  The spiritual dimension is to be banished, the materialistic aspect corrupted, and the old Great Society status quo to be restored.

And the marketing slogan for this insidious scheme?  "Reaching out to evangelicals".

As an evangelical myself, I'd be indignant at this insult to the intelligence of myself and the brethren, except that so many of the latter got seduced by Governor Biscuits & Gravy, who may well be offered a prominent "bipartisan" post (Faith Czar?) in a Hussein administration.

We are not to be of this world.  Barack Hussein Obama embodies it.  Some renewed discernment is desperately needed, brothers and sisters, before it's too late.