“Why I Thank God for Obama”
Dear Walk Show family,
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, one day my 90-year-old “spiritual grandpa,” Norman Grubb, set me on edge with this passing comment: “I thank God for the communists!”
With a family background in the anti-communist movement, I must admit that I was stunned!
“Why on earth would you ever say that, Norman?!” I exclaimed.
“Because the communists have helped create a vacuum that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.” His words proved prophetic, as the gospel flooded across many borders with the fall of the Soviet empire.
Today I thank God for Barack Obama, because this very day he is helping create the political and spiritual vacuum that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
Politics Reflect Culture, Not the Other Way Around
This campaign season I have received emails and phone calls from professing Christians who are championing opposing members of multiple political parties. For each, their particular candidate is the “right” one, and the others are “wrong.” It could easily baffle us as to how such Christians could come up with such radically opposing views — as if God were a Democrat, Republican, Independent or so forth. What is the source of all of this confusion carried out in the name of Christ?
In her epic worldview-analyzing book, “Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity,” author Nancy Pearcey makes an important observation concerning politics and culture. She says, “ . . . evangelicals often put all their eggs in one basket: They leaped into political activism as the quickest, surest way to make a difference in the public arena—failing to realize that politics tends to reflect culture, not the other way around. . . . Politics is downstream from culture” (p. 18).
Pearcey was once told by a member of Congress, “I got involved in politics after the 1973 abortion decision because I thought that was the fastest route to moral reform. Well, we’ve won some legislative victories, but we’ve lost the culture” (p. 19).
It is my observation that not only has the culture taken a downward spiral, but in the main American Christians have almost been totally assimilated by that disintegrating culture. Take, for example, our divorce rate. Chuck Colson points out that the number one divorce rate now belongs to Pentecostal Christians, with the atheists having better luck in their marital relationships. And, the worst (and best) business dealings I have experienced on this earth have been with professing Christians, so that when the pressure gets on, many have gotten revelations in the night to make their contractual yes’s into no’s. The word has even gone out in the secular culture: “Don’t do business with Christians: they expect forgiveness for anything they can do to you!” Should we also mention anything about the number of Christians who are getting abortions themselves? And, many American Christians have most obviously become assimilated into the political chaos.
Consequently, many American Christians’ lifestyles are largely disconnected from the Truth and hitched to the cultural lies that have become the idols of our age. It is only natural, then, that our “downstream politics” are all over the map, as we find ourselves reflecting the most diverse of often-opposing political opinions in the name of our small-“t” “truths” — a la the “What’s true for you is not true for me” relativism of this age.
“We the People” Get the Kind of Leaders We Deserve
The old maxim, “People get the kind of leaders (and government) they deserve” comes to mind when I witness the kinds of flawed political leaders many church-going believers are willing to settle for and even champion.
Do the bugs create the polluted swamp, or does the polluted swamp create the conditions that attract the bugs? According to the germ theory of disease, we are led to believe that “the bugs create the polluted swamp.” In other words, the bugs — whether they be germs, mosquitoes, con men or corrupt politicians — are seen to be the problem. Yet, is it not the other way around? The polluted swamp attracts the bugs! If the germ theory were correct, how do we account for those people who spend their whole lives without catching a cold? Won’t a strong immune system slough off the bugs — whether physical, social or political? Yes, a sound body politic will “throw out the bums.” Such does not appear to be the case in this election. . . yet.
A Case in Point: Barack Obama, the Neo-Eugenicist
Take the people (including “Christians”) who by their polluted cultural swamp are now attracting a professing “Christian,” Barack Obama, the neo-eugenicist. As you may recall, eugenics sprang from Darwinism, in its teaching that natural selection was accommodated by a process of “the survival of the fittest,” where the strong overcome the weak. Eugenics is the philosophy and practice of self-directing human evolution in such a way as to positively affect the outcome — such as “purifying” the “fittest” Arian race by cleansing the gene pool of six million “weaker” Jews. Actually, the Darwinian eugenics bug first emerged in America with our involuntary sterilization programs for the weakest members of our society. But America eventually cleaned up its swamp and the bugs soon migrated to the polluted Nazi swamp of the Third Reich.
As Ben Stein discovered in his brilliant “Expelled” documentary on intelligent design (now on DVD), the experimental butchery of “inferior” Jews was carried out by German physicians out of a spirit of altruism, for they were, after all, “creating a better world by improving the human gene pool.”
Then there was Margaret Sanger, editor of the eugenics publication consulted by Hitler and the Nazis. After accomplishing her objectives in Nazi Germany, she moved to America and founded Planned Parenthood, operating under the identical eugenics philosophy.
If you look in the dictionary, you will find that “eugenics” was discredited in scientific circles due to the abuses of the Nazi holocaust. Yet, it is actually alive and well, having morphed into the abortion, infanticide and euthanasia movements of our time.
As Barack Obama recently promised to Planned Parenthood, his FIRST PRIORITY in office will be to sign the “Freedom of Choice Act,” which will extend federal abortion protection to all possible extents in America. You must see Obama’s statement to this effect at: http://beltwayblips.com/video/barack_obama_planned_parenthood_and_foca/
This is added to Obama’s past infanticide legislative initiatives in Illinois, and, if we were to follow a logical progression, I suppose we might easily expect Obama to someday announce his whole-hearted support of euthanasia. Perhaps unwittingly, the Obama focus appears to be upon a culture of death. We would be wise to be mindful of this focus as we entertain his proposals in other sectors, from his terminal fiscal policies to his declared intentions to curtail our civil liberties.
This would mean that the only difference between Hitler’s eugenics and Obama’s is that Hitler waited until he got into the highest office to murder his masses, whereas Obama has already facilitated the murder of his masses a long time before running for our highest office.
As Del Taggart says in his www.TheTruthProject.com series: “So, why does evil bother you, if you have a philosophy of survival of the fittest? Under the philosophy of the survival of the fittest, the mighty’s responsibility is to destroy the weak.” What a day we have arrived at where politicians are carrying out this agenda while calling themselves “Christian”! Actually, they are anti-Christs.
Given Obama’s neo-eugenicist war on the weak, I sincerely wonder just why it is that so many members of our society think that an Obama administration would not victimize them, if given the opportunity. He has already, for example, both declared and demonstrated his intent to undermine the Constitution in numerous areas—including our First and Second Amendment rights for starters. For me, that would mean the likely end of my career as a talk show host . . . if Obama gets his way under the misleading propaganda term, “The Fairness Doctrine.”
As Jacques Ellul pointed out in his book, Propaganda, the propagandist soon comes to despise the object of his manipulations—like the John despises the hooker after the deed is done. And, I sincerely wonder what the top political propagandist of our time has in store for us should we discover that we have been shafted on November 4th.
It’s Not About the Candidate; It’s About “We the People”
“For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God” (I Peter 4:17).
In my book, INPUTS: A Matter of Lifestyle or Deathstyle, I told the story of little Peter Mahoney, whose mom never fed him refined sugar throughout the first three years of his life. Then, at age three, he went to a Sunday school picnic, where some well-meaning lady fed him Kool-Aid. As fast as he drank it down, he vomited it right back up! Physicians have confirmed for me that such a reaction would be considered normal for someone not acclimated to a junk food diet.
As few as ten years ago most Americans would have immediately “vomited up” a Black Liberation Theology Marxist if he tried to promote his neo-eugenics and redistributive Robin Hood agenda for our nation. Yet, today I heard someone say, “So what if he’s a Marxist?” Many Christians are now even overlooking Obama’s diehard commitment to abortion and euthanasia — in essence, to eugenics. Indeed, the culture has shifted, and the politics of our culture have shifted with it. Much of the church has drunk the Kool-Aid not just once, but over a long period of time. Thus desensitized by the junk-food diet of sugar coatings, we no longer throw it up when we encounter the poison hidden within. And now we are looking at the consequences — spiritually, socially, and politically.
God Spanks the Church
The church in America may need a spanking, and I believe Barack Obama could well become just the man to do it. What happens when you demand a king? Well, if Samuel’s story is any indication (1 Samuel 8:10-22), you incur the King of King’s wrath. At the same time, God nevertheless granted the people their wayward wish anyway, along with its egregious consequences—which include the king ripping off the people, their wealth and their children.
It could be that America needs a good spanking. Perhaps the spanking is already underway, for in case we didn’t notice it, our country was largely nationalized in the past month. We are likely to soon become a full-blown socialist nation, which means a majority of our nation’s resources will go to the governmental leach, which has no concern whatsoever for the life of its host. . . “We the people.”
If this election keeps going the way the pollsters say it’s going, we can pray for mercy one more time, but we certainly deserve the spanking that it looks like is in store for us. Consequently, we may soon have the opportunity to thank the Lord not only for Barack Obama, but again for the communists — all in one.
Rebuilding the World-View Foundations after the Election
Nancy Pearcey, author of the must-read Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, gave us a key to renewing our political future in response to the congressman’s comment that “We’ve lost the culture.” She said: “The most effective work . . . is done by ordinary Christians fulfilling God’s calling to reform culture within their local spheres of influence—their families, churches, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, professional organizations, and civic institutions. In order to effect lasting change . . . we need to develop a Christian worldview” (p. 19). This is the only true means of filling the vacuum presently being created by our assimilation into the Godless culture and the opportunist politicians it attracts.
The purpose of a worldview study is nothing less than to liberate Christianity (most certainly including its politics) from its cultural captivity, thereby releasing its power to transform the world. Two building blocks Robin and I have discovered for this post-election rebuilding process are:
1) The Truth Project DVD Series: In September of this year, Robin and I were privileged to take a one-day training in Focus on the Family’s Truth Project. This turned out to be an exceptional set of training DVDs used once a week for twelve weeks with a home group interested in developing a Kingdom worldview. You can get a sneak peak of this at www.thetruthproject.org, where you can click on the trailer box.
2) Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity book: Everyone has a worldview. It governs your thinking, even when you are unaware of it. In Nancy Pearcey’s new book, Total Truth, she so aptly describes it: “Genuine worldview thinking is far more than a mental strategy or a new spin on current events. At the core, it is the deepening of our spiritual character . . . . It begins with the submission of our minds to the Lord of the Universe. The driving force in these studies should be a commitment to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind” (Luke 10:27). God is not just the Savior of souls, He is also the Lord of creation. One way we acknowledge His Lordship is by interpreting every aspect of creation in the light of His truth. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2).
Praying and pulling for you this election week,
Ken
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P.P.P.S: For a stunning video message to Barack Obama on the right to life from famous Mexican actor and producer, Eduardo Verastegui, go to: http://www.durarealidad.com.
