DOES OBAMA APPRECIATE THE CHRISTIAN CLERGY?

Obama and the Church; Hitler and the Church

It occurred to me that you readers might find it interesting to speculate that President Obama may well appreciate the Christian church and clergy being as they are today, in the same sense that Hitler appreciated the Christian church as it was in his pre-Nazi Germany (In reality, he held the clergy in utter contempt for its weakness in the face of tyranny). If Obama is in fact a committed Koran-believing Marxist Muslim, he probably appreciates the fact that, thanks to America's clergy, the teeth of definition, enemy identification, duty, and vigilance in the cause of America's sacred God-given freedoms, have been pulled from the church by the clergy. The resulting vacuum has been filled by weak passive tolerance and irresolution in the great freedom issues by the American citizens.

Will Blind, Confused, Irresolute, Weak-willed Christians Be Raptured Out?

How have the clergy accomplished this weakness? By convincing the "sheep" that there's nothing to be concerned about - not to worry, "God is in control" and that in the "twinkling of an eye" the "believers" will be raptured out to an eternity of paradise with Christ. This prevalent "positive-only" non-confrontational disarming pseudo-faith patronizes, but in reality abandons and mocks Christ (and our founding fathers who gave their "lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" in the Holy cause of freedom). It blinds, neutralizes and confuses the vigilance of Christians toward the oppression and the tyranny of evil. [Read my recent blogs titled THE NEUTRALIZED "IRRELEVANT" CHURCH; and, ABANDONMENT THEOLOGY - WHAT IS IT?]

In Hitler's own words, straight out of Mein Kampf, He detailed the reasons why the nation was so vulnerable and ripe for his subjugation:
One of the worst symptoms of decay was the increasing cowardice towards responsibility as well as half-heartedness in all things resulting from it....All these symptoms of decay are ultimately only consequences of the lack of a certain, commonly acknowledged view of life and of the general uncertainty in the judgment and the definition of an attitude towards the various great questions of the time, resulting from it. Therefore, everything, beginning with education, is half-hearted and wavering, shuns responsibility and ends thus in cowardly tolerance of even recognized evils. Dreamy humaneness becomes the fashion, and by a weak surrender to the excrescences and in sparing the individuals, one sacrifices in turn the future of millions.

Hitler's Cross

Irwin W. Lutzer wrote a penetrating classic book titled "Hitler's Cross" in which he showed how Hitler capitalized on the passive clergy-induced weakness of the pre-Nazi church. Hitler was raised a Catholic and knew well the power of the faith. Accordingly he held the clergy and the citizens in contempt for not using the faith to confront evil. Rather, they capitulated, focused on salvation-only and personal virtuous living, thus by default opened the door to Hitler who proceded to gain a stranglehold and eradicate the people's personal freedoms. With utter contempt for the capitulating clergy, who had used a perversion of Romans 13:1-4 to justify non-involvement in government, Hitler sent many of them to his death camps.

Romans 13:1-4 vs "victorious personal living"

In America there have been a number of Paul Revere trumpet blowing clergy (and patriots in general) in recent decades. For the most part, the Christians, mesmerized by pabulum from the pulpits, have ridiculed them, labeled them "extremists", "opportunists" and publicity seekers. Rather than heeding their biblical "watchman on the wall" messages (Ezekiel 33: 4), America's Christians have opted to cop-out of their sacred duty to their country by invoking an inversion of the meaning of Romans 13:1-4 (exactly as did the clergy in pre-Nazi Germany) in favor of the
non-controversial lifestyle popularly termed "victorious personal living".

"Watchman" Dr. R.C. Sproul

One of America's great trumpet-sounding "watchmen", Dr. R. C. Sproul, authored a book, "Classical Apologetics" in which he described the church's condition today:

The church is safe from vicious persecution at the hands of the secularist...So long as the church knows her place and remains quietly at peace on her modern reservation. Let the babes pray and sing and read their Bibles, continuing steadfast in their intellectual retardation; the church's extinction will come not by sword of pillory, but by the quiet death of irrelevance. It will pass away with a whimper not a bang.

...but let the church step off the reservation, let her penetrate once more the culture of the day and the Janus-face of secularism will change from benign smile to savage snarl.

Are Christians "IN this world, not OF it"?

Another cop-out sign of the times running parallel to pre-Nazi Germany is the pious expression, "We're IN this world, not OF it", implying to heck with it because we're here only for an instant in terms of eternity. Dr. Sproul writes:

Other religions may choose a radical denial of this world, seeking asylum in a supratemporal sphere of mystical otherworldliness; but Christianity enjoys no such luxurious option. Attempts by Christians, past and present, to quit this world in ascetic retreat betray a tacit denial of the most elemental principles of the Christian view of creation and redemption.

Intolerable Tolerance

One of the glaring signs of the times is the willingness of Christians to compromise their faith by accepting "tolerance" of the previously intolerable. Dr. Michael Savage wrote: "Your tolerance of the intolerable is actually a reflection of your loss of clarity; your tolerance of virtually everything and your "anything goes" attitude is not a mark of liberalism, its a mark of degeneration of your ability to judge anything."

Does Obama Appreciate the Church?

In the above sense it could be speculated that President Obama does in fact greatly appreciate today's cowardly Christian church because, as with Hitler, it has created the vacuum of irresolution, indecision, uncertainty, passiveness, tolerance and inaction toward evil, which empowers Obama to tighten his socialist Marxist freedom-robbing noose around our necks... if in fact, as we speculated in prior essays, those are his intentions. The clergy have watered down the militancy of the Christian faith which gave us our priceless freedoms, and have paved the way for evil, a carbon copy of how they opened the flood gates to Hitler.

Hate Crimes And Political Correctness

The way is being cleared for the Obama-spearheaded "hate crimes" legislation in which the clergy and citizens, may be arrested for quoting God's exhortations in the Bible about the abomination of homosexuality; and his attack on the First Amendment (free speech) through the Fairness Doctrine, and his attack on the Second Amendment through proposed gun controls.

To be "Politically Correct"

These and other Constitution-destroying freedoms can only succeed if the clergy are neutralized and they take their members and followers down with them. It's known as being "politically correct".



NOTE: For references see especially:
AMERICA - OUR SACRED TRUST (archived February/09)
THOSE WHO HATE YOU SHALL REIGN OVER YOU (Lev.26:14) [archived 4/22/09]

NOTE: The above views and opinions are mine, John W. Chalfant. Your's may be different. They are welcome and appreciated.



Note: Numerous quotes above are from the book America - A Call To Greatness.





































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