To Christians Who Are Voting for Obama

Commentary

Why? Why would you vote for a man who believes in abortion and would make Americans pay for them? Why vote for someone who would nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold pro-abortion laws? Why would they vote for a person who would approve promoting embryonic stem cell research? Why would they vote for a presidential candidate who supports Gay marriage and who refused to vote for the DOMA, Defnese of Marriage Act? Why, especially when his opponent and running mate are pro-life
From Christian friends who support Obama, I have arrived at several reasons why some would.

One characteristic I have noticed from them is that they seem to be angry when you bring it up to them. Something in their psyche tells them it is not comfortable to vote for Obama. They are defensive when the subject of who to vote for comes up. Deep down they realize Obama’s campaign promotes anti-Christian principles.

Secondly, they have believed a lie. Or multiple lies. I believe they have bought into the “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” "Bush Derangement Syndrome" ("BDS") is a political term coined by the American conservative political columnist, and psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer in a 2003 column” (Wikipedia). This term describes those who hate Bush, his policies, and even the mention of his person. It is paranoia of the far left, and of those whose policies and plans are totally opposite of Christianity and conservatism in every manifestation.

Thirdly, Obama supporting Christians are like many others who support him. They are lazy and do not study the issues. On a recent 2020, John Stossel made the comment, that maybe those who are uninformed should not vote, for which he received a lot of hate-email. Christian college students, along with other students, hear their professors’ propaganda and believe it rather than to try to prove it. They are taught to hate America as it is an evil country invading others for profit.

They receive their ‘news’ from the left-leaning media who hates Bush. The media wanted Gore to win the presidency in 2000 and think the Supreme Court stole the election for Bush. They promote Bush hatred and connect him with McCain in an attempt to win the 2008 presidency. They listen to the continuous stream of lies and hate from non-Christian sources, which they do not check whether true or not.

Fourthly, they have developed a liberal rather than a Christ-centered world view, due basically by reasons stated in the previous paragraph. They see each issue in light of a civil rights interpretation, rather than from the moral biblical position. Many, as George Barna has documented, do not live the Christian life, but live like their non-Christian neighbors.

Fifthly, they are lacking in Bible understanding, i.e., they do not really understand the principles brought out in scripture. They interpret ‘love,’ as tolerating the anti-biblical actions of others. ‘Love’ is interpreted in what psychologists term, ‘enabling’ others to continue in wrongdoing rather than to enact correcting measures. Condemnation of immoral actions is interpreted as ‘hating’ the wrongdoer, rather than showing true love by wanting to bring the person to ‘repentance’ and true change. They believe the lie that Christians and conservatives ‘hate’ gays and abortionists, when their actions are condemned. They are naive to human nature.

Sixth, they do not realize that Obama ridicules the Bible. You have to hear it to believe it. Click on the You tube: http://www.youtube.com/v/4FCNKwHRCQM.

The company one keeps should be an indication to us how they think and the type of character he has. Obama’s associations have been presented over and over again in the media. His association with Bill Ayers, The so-called ‘Reverend’ Wright, Tony Rezko, etc. is well known by now. Is this the man we want for our next president?

For Christians who come across this blog, please consider the points brought out above. If Obama wins, and is joined by a ‘super majority’ in congress, you will begin to see your Christian rights erode. Scripture tells us, “Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil” (1 Thess. 5:21-22). Pray for guidance and direction.

Can Pro-Choice candidates for public office be trusted?

Commentary by Rick

Can Pro-Choice candidates for public office really be trusted? When you see what else they support, one must answer in the negative. Locally in Johnson County, Kansas, The pro-choice politicians, in the main, support gun control, radical environmentalism, are Bush haters, and support evolution as the basis for our science standards in the public school system.

Nationally, taking Obama and the Democrats for example, they have a pro-choice plank in their platform. Abortion-on-demand supporters also believe in taking money from the rich, according to their definition, and giving it the poor. They are for strict gun control. Obama has not told the truth when he said he was not against gun ownership, and his voting record indicates he supports the right of cities to ban handgun ownership. He supports a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns and the exhorbitant taxing of ammunition.

He has promised the people who vote for him everything including the kitchen sink, with no way of paying for it without taxing the middle-class. When you do the math, there is no way that he can give a tax decrease, 40% who already do not pay taxes, to 95% of us. And there is no way the remaining 5%, to whom he promises a tax increase, can support the entirety of what Obama has promised. The Obama campaign has produced lie after lie about what he promises after being elected.

The campaign has misrepresented McCain’s plans for helping the economy recover time after time. When a member of the middle class, the now recently become famous Joe the Plumber, simply said to Obama, "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" Obama’s response was, “It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Obama inadvertently told the truth about what he thought about the real middle-class. Then, the left railed on Joe, for causing Obama to tell the embarrassing truth about his plans if he becomes president.

Many of our voters are very naive, believing everything their far-left professors have told them and most of what they read in leftist newspapers, and what they hear from Obviously Obama supporting cable and network news anchors. They hate Fox News, the only outlet presenting both sides, because they are told to do so. And most of them do not watch Fox news, and therefore do not realize they are being lied to. This group is lazy about checking out what they read and hear. God help us if Obama wins the presidency!

Separation Between Church and State Not in Constitution

First paragraph and part of second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...”

It is important to note from the second paragraph, especially the part I have italicized, that our founding fathers who composed the Declaration, that freedoms are granted by God, and that we create government to safeguard those freedoms. Therefore we conclude that the constitution was created to fulfill the desires expressed in the Declaration, and by the same group of men, who worked diligently to form it. So our theme question arises: Does the constitution command us to separate religion and government?

Does the constitution anywhere mention the relationship between church and state? Between religion and state? Is so where? The proper relationship between church and state is spelled out in The first amendment to the constitution which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Note: congress is forbidden to establish a state religion, as was in the mother country, England, at that time. The intent is to prevent the establishment of a religious denomination as the state religion of the United States. The framers desired to prevent what the pilgrims came to the new land to escape from.

Where this commonly misunderstood concept originates is not from the constitution, but from an excerpt from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson when he was president in response to the Danbury Baptist Association, a religious minority in Connecticut, which had concerns that the state of Connecticut did not consider religions freedom as immutable, but as ‘favors granted by the state legislature. A copy of their letter can be found here: http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=65. An excerpt from Jefferson’s response letter to the Danbury Baptists, is where the term “separation of church and state” appears:
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ?make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,? thus building a wall of separation between Church & State” The constitution puts up a wall of protection for the free exercise of religion from control by the state.

Christians, as well as other individuals and groups, do not want the state to establish a particular denomination as the state church of the United States. Neither do most Christians, along with others, do not want to have the Christian religion established as a state church. However, this does not mean for government to tear down Judeo-Christian morality and beliefs from our government and its institutions.

Comments from some early American Statesmen: John Adams and John Hancock:
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]
John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress
"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus,” Thomas Jefferson. (http://www.eadshome.com/QuotesoftheFounders.htm}.

Historical revisionists have quoted many of our founding fathers out-of-context in an attempt to disprove the fact that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, for the purpose of eliminating those principles from our political scene. The First Amendment is simple and means what it says. One, That no state church shall be established, and two, the government shall not restrict the freedom of religion or its exercise thereof. The American people need to know the truth about this important issue.