So, this post has nothing to do with my phone gittin dead, but it's a functional segue, so i'm running with it.
Truth is, i have been reading through a lot of my friend's blogs and a lot of the blogs i link to on this page and am surprised by how much i disagree with some of their assumptions and 'connections', if you will. The ties that are fabricated between religion and politics, or science and faith, are fascinating.
One blog in particular made the assertion that, "Christians, who take the scriptures seriously, are about as happy about an Obama presidency as a pig is a bacon sandwich.(1)" I promptly finished off my Reuben sandwich with bacon from Eastside Deli and put on my thinking boxers.
This assertion bothered me for a few reasons, the most prominent being that the friends of mine who ascribe to the christian faith are associated by default with the writer and his heavy handed quips. This one bad apple is muddying up an issue of politics by claiming that an entire faith is rallying behind their holy book's assumed assertions that President Obama is the beast or his precursor.
No offense, but I remember hearing the fringes of this same conversation when Mr. Clinton got hot and heavy in the oval office. I'm not sure what this means, in fact i'm getting a little too distracted to keep writing.
(1)-The Frontman's Blog, Nov 10 2008 "Should Chiristians Honor Barac Obama"
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This one and then this one. Crossposted from Laughing Wolf
I have actually heard this a ton in my political debates in the "blogosphere."
ReplyDeleteI've challenged those that assert that Christians shouldn't honor Barack Obama (or Clinton, or whomever they claim is the "antichrist" of the hour)...
The Scriptures they pervert also instruct those following Christ to submit to authorities, because God put said authorities in place. The exception to that rule is when serving God is against said ruler's edicts...which Obama has nowhere made it illegal to worship, or go to church, or blah blah blah.
So it bothers me that, as you said, I get associated with this nonsense.
Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. Matt. 22:21
ReplyDeleteYeah, it seems like a crapload of selective reading. Maybe they just got the NKJV Footnotes.