Posted by
Roger on Saturday, April 05, 2008 10:12:33 PM
First, it is worth noting that Barack Obama would have voters believe he is different. The
recent revelations about his pastor Jeremiah Wright have led to statements by Obama that most of us find hard to believe.
His speech revealed a side to Obama that ought to trouble any person who believes in the historic Christian faith, traditional American liberty, or a Martin Luther King view of racial equality. Yet his
supporters seem willing to accept what is obviously a credulous
rationalization.
Glenn Beck took considerable heat for
joking about Obama as the Antichrist. The remarkable thing about the Bible's prediction's regarding the Antichrist is that people will believe him to be Christ or, if not THE Christ, then a messiah or deliverer, the very sort of thing many say about Obama. His apparent political invulnerability, the sense that his followers have that he can do no wrong, is exactly the sort of the thing that a true antichrist will have. No sensible Christian would try to point the finger; Jesus warns us not to do that sort of thing. It just find his ability to lie, be caught in lying, and then go right one seeming to be a great leader to be just the kind of ability that a real antichrist would have.
Secondly, the big deal for me about all these lying candidates is what it says about us, the people who will vote for them. How have we come to the place where people can lie so openly and get away with lying for years or perhaps longer? People support liars and accuse honest people of lying, and they are believed! This runs deeper than political ideology; this is a fundamental character flaw infecting the American people, a virus as pernicious as any, and it needs treatment. That is
what I have written about in more detail.
Our leaders will lie to us as long as we tolerate them doing so. They have done it for so long and so successfully that they do it now with little concern for consequences, which are few. They will continue lying until we demand honesty, but maybe that won't happen until we decide that "Honesty is the best policy," for all of us.