Posted by
Sgt.Stryker on Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:22:33 AM
Ok, ok, I'll stipulate that the title is extreme, maybe even over-the-top. But after my most recent visit to the dentist, I'm not so sure.
I've been going to my dentist for 15 years and most of my visits are pretty non-descript. I usually go twice a year for cleanings, and haven't had occasion to go more often for anything severe (cut to me knocking on wood). The same crew has been there all along, and most of the conversations are pleasant, but strictly business. Every one is personable, but it's hard to talk when you have your mouth stretched wide open and any number of instruments doing things that would make Torquemada proud. I've noticed that everyone that works there seems to have an evangelical bent, but they aren't preachy, which is fine with me. I'd rather listen to something besides the local Christian radio station while my teeth are getting scraped, but no matter. Every visit is pretty routine, and I like it like that. Don't need drama at the dentist office when the potential for drama is already inherently high.
The recent visit was a little different, though. Connie, the receptionist, asked me to fill out a new medical history, since the one on file was the one I filled out back in '94. We got to talking about insurance (I have a new carrier as well), and that conversation quickly turned to the possibility of universal healthcare. If looks could kill...sweet Connie, the evangelical receptionist, adopted a countenance, which, truth be told, scared the bejesus out of me. "They better not pass that", she said. I concurred... and quickly.
"What are they thinking? They couldn't sell it back when Clinton tried, how can they think now will be any different?" I asked.
She looked at me-"Bryan" she said, "I've been a Democrat my whole life. I've never voted for a Republican. But this guy, Obama, he scares me. I think he might be..." Long pause. She was trying to decide if she trusted me enough to let me hear her deepest thoughts.
I dove right in, knowing exactly where she was going. "The anti-Christ?" I said, only half-joking. The look on Connie's face was priceless. "Oh, my God" she said. "I can't believe you read my mind!!" as she reached out to high-five me.
"Well, we probably aren't the only two people in the world that have thought that," I told her.
"He's got to go, and soon, before he wipes us out," she said. "If he's not evil, I don't know who is."
"Amen to that, sister."
I got called in by the hygenist shortly after, but the whole episode set me to thinking...could a case be made that this political novice who ascended to the office of POTUS on a wafer-thin resume may have had supernatural assistance, and might indeed be the "anti-Christ" from John's Revelations?
Let's look at some of the evidence.
First of all, the issue surrounding Barry's speech at Georgetown University, in which the WH requested that the "IHS" symbol over the stage and other religious symbols be covered up presents an interesting possibility in and of itself. Under what scenario would these symbols be problematic for the President? In a country founded on Judeo-Christian principles, at a university rooted in Catholicism/Christianity, what else would he expect to be on the premises? Even more curious, why not just move to a more secular setting on the campus? I believe the gesture of the WH asking (and the school acceding to the request) is the real story here. The level of disrespect and contempt shown by this POTUS to religion in general is unbelievable. I believe he was very deliberate in his process, and he knows this was a sharp stick in the eye to Catholics specifically and Christians in general. His ex-pastor, Jeremiah Wright, warned us..."Politicians say what they say and do what they do because of electability," he said. "He has to distance himself because he's a politician … " Especially a politician that counts among his supporters a vast number of secular types, nearly all the gays in this country, and the Glitterazi from Hollyweird and NYC, as well as academia. Most of these folks are agnostic at best, fervently anti-religion at worst. The rest of us are still clinging to our guns and our religion. Unlike the anti-Christs.
Another item to consider is the president addressing Notre Dame. Even though he has been called the "Obamessiah", it is beyond me as to why a Catholic university would invite an ardent abortionist to speak to their graduating class. Unless, of course, the abortionist-in-chief had some type of sway over a left-leaning administrator or a mis-guided priest at the institution. If the address itself is not egregious enough, Notre Dame is awarding "the one" with an honorary degree, a position that is indefensible in most people's minds. I can't imagine why this bastion of Catholic thought would believe this is a good idea.
The more obvious case-in-point is Obama's deliberate choice of pro-abortion cabinet members and his actions expanding funding for abortion in the US and worldwide, and his federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The Cloakroom, the blog page for the Family Research Council, has this list of all of the pro-abortion activities undertaken by Barry since he was elected. The list is fairly exhaustive, and truly depressing. Two of the most telling examples occurred as soon as Obama took office. On January 22nd, he issued a statement commemorating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The very next day, he overturned the Mexico City Policy, so that "now millions ($461 million in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008) of dollars are taken away from family planning groups that do not promote abortion, and delivered into the hands of organizations that are the most militant in promoting abortion as a population-control method - especially in countries that find abortion objectionable on moral grounds." Likewise, on April 22, " President Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, testifies in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that the Obama Administration believes that “reproductive health” includes a right to abortion and that the policy of the Obama Administration is to work to overturn pro-life laws in other countries." Sebelius, Koh, Kagan, Clinton...a Murderer's Row of Abortionists and Eugenicists, all political appointees of "the one" (no caps intended). Likewise, judicial nominees like David Hamilton, enthusiastically supported by NARAL, or Sonia Sotomayor, will undoubtedly be anti-life. Nothing like promoting a culture of death worldwide when you hold the office of POTUS, the most powerful man in the world...fitting behavior for an anti-Christ.
Likewise, the Freedom Of Choice Act (FOCA) is especially outrageous. Again, any person that calls themself a Christian that advocates policies that engender a culture of death is acting in direct contradiction to Christian teaching. Maybe this is one of the reasons Barry and Michelle have yet to pick a DC church. If they have, it's not been made public to my knowledge. And how else do we explain his decision to privately observe National Prayer Day? Seems to me, aside from his attendance at Wright's South Chicago church (which we all know was a politically expedient choice as opposed to a religious choice), Obama has purposely and literally distanced himself from all things religious. Again, typical anti-Christ behavior.
With regards to the rest of his policies, his embrace of Chavez and Aqua-velvajad, his bow to King Abdullah, and his lack of backing for Israel, when taken in this context, all belie a true understanding of the juxtaposition of Judeo-Christian thought and American history. Or a willful ignorance. Or, possibly, a conscious choice. In any case, none of these options are acceptable for the POTUS. And if these are truly conscious decisions by Obama (or by some outside force i.e. Soros), the insidiousness is obvious, and the potential consequences are indeed grave.
Now, let me state for the record, I've always been spiritual and religious, without being a zealot. That's not to say I've never sinned. I'm as guilty as the next man of many transgressions. That's why I go to church, to pray and ask forgiveness. Truth be told, in some ways I wish my passion for politics was more directed at my religion. I do read a lot of religious philosophy (Merton, Lewis, Chesterton etc), but unfortunately I seem to be more interested in the philosophical angle than I am in the Bible itself. I have read the Bible, but I don't claim any vast understanding of all of the nuance or to be a scholar of any sort. I do understand enough to know what is right and wrong, however. That being said, Wikipedia's definition and discussion about the Anti-Christ is certainly instructive, and I have to say, there are a number of items there that pique my interest. Of particular interest is this statement from theolgian William Barkley in the Daily Study Bible: "antichrist is not so much a person as a principle, the principle which is actively opposed to God and which may well be thought of as incarnating itself in those in every generation who have seemed to be blatant opponents of God.""
I will leave the interpretation to you, the reader, as to what all of this means. Personally, I believe it's possible that Barry, with his many issues that would make Freud proud (fathered out of wedlock, abandoned by his father, mother, and stepfather, mentored by a pedophile, the heavily guarded secrecy surrounding aspects of his past, and his socialistic/communistic policies, etc etc), could indeed be at least an anti-Christ, if not THE Anti-Christ. The evil is plain to see, and not really debatable. For us, the readers and posters here at TH, we need to remember what Burke said- "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."
