Tuesday, August 09, 2011

The Passion of Obama

American Thinker- According to the Wall Street Journal, the President has deemed his debt ceiling efforts sufficiently arduous to merit a promotion. President Obama has apparently made a sacrifice so great that we have been saved (again, as if that were necessary). In reference to his recent efforts, the President commented, "There's no sense dying on a small cross."
We know our President is a font of scarcely believable material, but this is really something. Just how should a believer construe President Obama's analogy of himself to Jesus Christ?

First, there is a notable major difference between the President's comment and the more common and irreverent quip, "Come down off your cross." The President's comment is self-referencing; whereas the common quip is typically directed at another person. More importantly, the President's comment seeks a parallel to Christ's cross and inflation of the President's ordeal; whereas the common quip ironically suggests perspective, that another's troubles may be overstated.
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President Obama has offered hope (a theological virtue), claimed to cause the oceans to subside (a miracle) and compared himself to Christ (a substantial deceit). [...]--------Read All