Does Jesus Make You Nervous Obama?
The latest attack from the White House is against religion, faith, and more specifically Christianity. Not only are we not a Christian nation (by Obama’s words) but we must also check our principles at the door if we are to have this man speak at a Christian institution. The latest example took place at Georgetown University.
What scares me about this act is not so much the fact that Christianity is under attack (which I believe it is to some extent), but the blatant narcissism attached to this request. Obama cannot share the stage with the name or a symbol of Jesus appearing before him? This should be eerily similar to any narcissistic statists and socialists in history. I remember one particular leader who went after religion and also took down all religious symbols and replaced them with pagan symbols only to turn it into eventual self worship, believing he was a deity in his own right. This is just plain eerie. Cue my tin-foil hat!
Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”–symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.
“In coordinating the logistical arrangements for yesterday’s event, Georgetown honored the White House staff’s request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind Gaston Hall stage,” Julie Green Bataille, associate vice president for communications at Georgetown, told CNSNews.com.
“The White House wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they’ve done for other policy speeches,” she added. “Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn’t high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context.”
The only thing to be taken out of context in Obama’s mind would be those in the audience not worshiping him and still being aware of a real God on stage (not him).
Obama, never mentioned Jesus specifically in his address to the student body.
The President used the Sermon on the Mount in his speech and also attempted to quote Matthew 7, but he did so incorrectly when he referred to building our lives on the rock of government. The rock in which Christians are to build their lives is Jesus and nothing else. The sheer fact that he feels government can be substituted for Jesus should prove to any independent thinker that this man believes government to be God and therefore he is a narcissistic statist believing he, himself, being in the most powerful position in the government, is in fact God.
We have clear language in the 1st Amendment that states that we are allowed freedom of religion not freedom FROM religion.
No university cemented in religious principles should give up their beliefs and the very foundation it was established upon to appease a government official.
How can anyone argue the fact that the ridiculous and unnecessary request made by Obama was anything but either shame or contempt for Christianity?
The left’s inability to grasp the real meaning behind “separation of church and state,” boggles the mind. The separation means that no state institution can force you to believe or practice a certain religion or force a religion upon you. It does mean that you are allowed to worship whatever deity you see fit. The government can be religious, it just can’t tell you how to be religious.
By taking down the symbol they are in fact the hypocrites in this scenario because they are telling a school what religion it should reflect and by forcing it to take down the predominant IHS symbol where Obama spoke, they are offending Christians (who have just as much right to believe what they do as atheists and agnostics), and they are telling an institution what to do and how to do it in regard to their very own faith. If any of the audience was offended by the IHS symbol one would think they would not have applied to a Jesuit school in the first place.
