Posted by
James Bell on Friday, August 21, 2009 3:00:58 PM
Looks like we now have President Obama pandering to the religious organizations throughout America in order to promote his health care reform plan. There is a lot of irony in this move by the White House to take this message to those of faith. It is also blatant and blasphemous.
Obama is pandering to the charitable beliefs of those who believe in God and by definition want to see the unfortunate in the country cared for and provided for. This is the opportunity for Obama Care to be promoted. How could Obama lose the argument that all should be insured in America with this audience that he delivered messages to via conference calls? Some of the religious groups included Faith in Public Life and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Some of the religious leaders will have the opportunity to express their struggles in the health care system.
In one of Obama’s speeches touting his health care plan, he had the audacity to quote Biblical scripture from Matthew 25, where he stated that people were “bearing false witness,” regarding his health care agenda. Obama hasn’t paid much credence to the cries of concerns from the faithful regarding his pro-life stance. Obama promotes the culture of death where the unborn is concerned in this country and held campaign events with Planned Parenthood, professing his undying support of them and their message. Do you see the problem here? Obama gives hypocrisy new meaning. He only calls upon the religious when it gives his agenda a boost.
From a Christian viewpoint, it is blasphemous to treat the Word of God with such casual regard. You won’t hear Obama quoting the commandment that says “Thou shalt not kill.” No, you won’t hear that from the Pro-Death President.
What is more tragic is that the religious groups will falter on principle. Like so many proclaimed conservatives like Kathleen Parker and Michael Smerconish. Smerconish had Obama on his Philadelphia talk radio show on Aug 20. Smerconish declared his support for Obama during his campaign and slobbered all over the place, about meetings he was having with then Senator Obama. Kathleen Parker spent a lot of her energy bashing Sarah Palin. Let’s face it, you are not a conservative, by definition, and support Barrack Obama, who is the most left wing president this country has seen. The religious groups and the true conservatives will stay on principle and not give into the prestige and fan fare that surrounds this president.
In a nutshell, I view this as a feeding frenzy in which neither side is concerned with conviction, principles, or what the American citizen thinks on the issue. Obama gets what he wants, getting closer to passing his health care plan, and the faith based groups get their time in the spotlight with a popular president. This may be a harsh view to take, but there are things for which there can be no compromise. In my view, such an issue, is human life and the protection of it. As people of faith, we are to be concerned with the weakest and most vulnerable in society. Who fits the category more than an unborn child? This reality should dictate that there will be no meetings with Obama. Obama should be told that we have no interest in hearing what you have to say until our voices on life are heard as well.
In the end, we Christians, we Catholics, we people of faith are no better than Obama. We compromised. We allowed this president to quote the sacred scripture, and this is not the first time he has done so. We give this president an audience that has stated to the world, that we are not a Christian nation in order to pander to Moslems, who refuse to stand up to the radical element among them which seeks to destroy us. Do we have consciences left at all?