Barrack Obama: Prayers Answered, Results Denied

[Vogon_Glory]

Like many DU’ers living down in the former Confederacy, I’ve had my brushes with the religious radio stations. While I will be the first to admit that there are some Catholic stations and some African-American religious stations scattered here and there, the majority of these stations are white-owned, Evangelical Protestant, and pitch most of their appeal to a white evangelical protestant audience.

Like many Evangelical Protestants, many of these stations’ owners and broadcasters believe in and preach an end-time theology. With the disappearance of Marxism-Leninism as a threat, some of these stations have chosen to subtly or not-so-subtly color this world’s large Islamic population as the next threat.

To say the least, these evangelical broadcasters’ relationship with the Islamic world is ambiguous. One of the occasional threads, though, has been the conversion of former Muslims into believing, practicing Christians. The few programs I’ve listened to have spoken of such individuals’ existence, although they seem to be talked about than actually seen.

Which brings us to Barrack Obama. Had Barrack Obama been born in the Middle East or had his parents remained married and living in Kenya, Barrack Obama would probably be a Muslim today. But Barrack’s father was an atheist, his mother moved, and eventually young Barrack ended up spending most of his youth in the United States. Barrack Obama got his religious inspiration as an adult from the devout African-Americans he worked with during his community-organizing days. He is currently a practicing Christian.

What I find ironic is that had Barrack Obama been white, had he been an Evangelical Protestant holding ultra-conservative social views, he’d be a Religious Right poster boy. They would have said here’s a guy that was raised as a Muslim in his childhood, then by non-religious grandparents, then witnessed to by his neighbors. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Let’s hawk the guy as a role model! Let’s use him to bash religious and political liberals!

Alas for the Religious Right, Barrack Obama is African-American. He’s also a liberal Democrat. And he isn’t a religious social reactionary. So the Religious Right, finally having one of their prayers answered, denounces Obama as un-American and a closet unbeliever. And we spiritually-minded American voters are supposed to take these Religious Right people as upstanding people of faith and righteousness?

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[amitten]

1. No, they wouldn't praise him if he were white. Because his

beliefs and policies are liberal.

They might like his "story" but not his platform, no matter his race.

[spag68]

2. Fundy's

The one that I feel is really goofy is the pray away gay day. What the hell right do they have invoking prayer for such stupidity, and do it all in one day yet. Jim Morrison was right.