This article is so dead-on that I wish I’d written it, but it’s Kathleen Parker’s, describing the cult of Obama:
It’s truly eerie watching the reaction to Obama’s campaign. I’m going to write more later, but this article serves as a good explanation, I think, of what’s going on.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Radically Tolerant - of all people, irrespective of race, faith, circumstance. As a person, you will be treated with the respect and dignity you deserve as an individual created in the image of God.
Radically Intolerant - of slipshod reasoning, emotion without intellectual substance, bad ideas, lazy thinking, cowardly ad hominem attacks, the preposterous notion that 9/11 is some government conspiracy (proceed directly to the Loony Bin; do not pass "Go"; do not collect $200), the designated hitter, and the Dallas Cowboys.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
Ogden: Unfinished Business
Marshall: Reclaiming God's Original Intent for the Church
Yancey: Rumors of Another World
Frazee: The Connecting Church
Pearcey: Total Truth
Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Bork: Slouching Towards Gomorrah
2 Responses to “Barack, the Messiah of the American Idol Generation”
Socialists look for messianic candidates, because, as humanists, their faith is in Man in the aggregate. This outlook is worsened if the Socialist is an agnostic or atheist, since then the Socialist’s delusion isn’t hampered or softened by any faith in a God who is higher than Man’s aggregate powers. Government power is the highest form of Man’s aggregate powers (followed only by educational institutions). Resultantly, anyone who looks like a master of the State is hailed as a Savior. The leader becomes like the Roman emperors of old, who eventually went from claiming Jupiter’s blessings to claiming to be the living vessels of Jupiter. Such a politician turns from advocate to avatar — a representative, a living sacrament — of Man in the aggregate. At that point a political party croisses over the line into being a religious cult.
Jack Brooks ~ Mar 1, 2008 at 10:05 am
Heaven help the man if he ever falls from grace. People tend to be surprisingly fickle these days when it comes to politics.
Don ~ Mar 2, 2008 at 11:19 pm