by Michael G. Mickey
(4-17-08)

Thanks to some nifty undercover work by an American who recorded Barack Obama taking swipes at small town America, the ugly truth has come out. Barack Obama, 'devout Christian' on the record, is not so big on religion when he's speaking in front of an audience where he suspects he isn't being recorded.

Mayhill Fowler of Oakland, Calif., a "citizen journalist" as a NewsMax.com article calls her, is responsible for bringing into view the Barack Obama the mainstream media is hiding from us by recording him at the April 6th fundraiser in San Francisco where he made his now infamous remarks concerning small town America clinging to religion, guns and more.

So damaging to Barack's image has Fowler's recording become that she has received over 200 e-mail messages which she says has ranged from “creepy to threatening.” She has even received several death threats, primarily, it would seem, for feigning support of Obama to get into the event.

“It’s like the liberal blogosphere has issued a fatwa against me,” Fowler has been quoted as saying.

The sick logic behind the threats being made against Fowler is this: If she hadn't lied to get inside the event, Barack Obama could've shown his true colors to his liberal audience while continuing to present himself as an agent of change for America to the rest of us. How dare that woman show America what a candidate for president is saying about Americans that aren't liberals!

Barack Obama, the devout Christian

Isn't it amazing that a devout Christian like Barack Obama attends church regularly where anti-Semitic remarks are made but never hears them?

Isn't it perplexing that a devout Christian like Barack Obama knows his "spiritual mentor", Jeremiah Wright Jr., has cursed the United States of America from the pulpit yet refuses to disown him as an associate, even while running for president of the United States?

Isn't it bizarre to even imagine that a United States Senator would, whether running for president or not, attend a church from the pulpit of which it has been suggested that the United States government created H.I.V. to commit genocide against people of color?

Isn't it quite telling to hear Barack Obama, a devout Christian , cast one clinging to their religion in a negative light? It sure is to me! I'm not alone.

This morning I read an interesting commentary on this very topic by Brian Fitzpatrick. The following is an excerpt from it which I believe highlights quite accurately what Barack Obama said, as well as what we need to take away from it and share with others:

Not realizing his remarks were being recorded, Obama was telling his West Coast backers about the difficulties his campaign was facing in the wilds of Pennsylvania. Seems those small-town, blue-collar yokels, after watching jobs disappear from their communities for the past 20 years, have become a little prickly. And they're responding by making bad, bad choices.

"It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," explained Barack.

Like the media, which have been harping on the "elitist" angle and the campaign horse race, Obama's presidential rivals seem to be missing the bigger issue that could prove the most troubling. It's not his apparent elitism, or even his attitude toward gun owners, as volatile as that might prove to be. It's Obama's fundamental attitude toward religion.

Many people have taken offense at Obama's suggestion that religious folk "cling" to their faith when going through hard times. Does Obama look down on religion, considering it to be a crutch that weak-minded people cling to in desperation? As Marx put it, the "opiate of the masses?"

This would be bad enough, but Obama's problem with religion seems to go deeper. Judging from his San Francisco remarks, he doesn't just look down on religion, he despises it.

Obama identified five seemingly disparate items in his list of values that the suffering blue collar workers "cling" to. Guns. Religion. Antipathy toward people who aren't like them (read: racism and homophobia). Anti-immigrant sentiment (read: racism and nativism). Anti-trade sentiment (again read nativism).

In fact, these five items are closely related, at least to the San Francisco liberals to whom Obama was speaking. They're all values that the cosmopolitan, internationalist, secular elites cannot stand.

Obama's unguarded words strongly suggest that he sees religious faith as no more valid, beneficial or worthy of respect than racism.

Barack Obama: The devout Christian who hates religion.

Do the math on that - and consider what Scripture has to say concerning supposedly devout practitioners of our faith who say one thing but do another!

Matthew 7:15-20:

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Those of us who know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior know what it is to cling to the old rugged cross --- in both good times and bad! Show me someone who professes to be a devout Christian who doesn't believe in clinging to same and I'll show you someone who is, at best, an apostate Christian. Someone like Barack Obama.

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