Dueling Auras

I've neither seen nor heard any indication that Barack Hussein Obama feels any discomfort at the stylistically blasphemous notion attributed to his candidacy that it, and he, is "messianic".  If he were truly a believer in Jesus Christ as he claims to be, I would think he would go out of his way to try and quash such notions, as when the Apostle John fell at the feet of the angel to worship him and the angel rebuked him, saying, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."  Surely a man can successfully run for president without making of himself a golden calf.  His predecessor pulled it off twice quite without difficulty.

Just when the nickname "false messiah" threatens to mellow into a cliche, False Messiah steps forward to remove all doubt:

GG:
Do you believe in sin?

OBAMA:
Yes.

GG:
What is sin?

OBAMA:
Being out of alignment with my values. [emphasis added]

Sounds like a Freudian slip to me.

AP gives His Eminence the benefit of the contextual doubt - nuance! - but all I know is if I were being interviewed and I was asked about my Christian faith and I was asked the definition of sin and I was being hailed as a "messiah," I would say what the Bible says: It is rebellion against God, both in the fallen, spiritually dead natures with which we're born and the sinful acts to which it gives rise.  I would NOT attempt cosmic plagiarism.

I think this is more than just narcissism.  I think it really is a messiah complex that the orgasmic press coverage he has and will continue to receive has malignantly reinforced.

The "false" part of the nickname is equally well-earned - not because Obama is most definitely not the Second Person of the Trinity, but because his past religious reflections give his professed faith's authenticity the stink of ecumenical ersatzness:

"So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues. "I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

"That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived."

It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith — Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone — know the same God.

And what does the REAL Messiah have to say about that?:

I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. [emphases added]

Barack Hussein Obama may be an apostle of Karl Marx, or Malcolm X, but if I may be so bold, he is of "the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world." (No, he's not THE Anti-Christ.)  I think REAL Messiah described the dynamics of this campaign when He said, "I have come in My Father's name, and you do not accept Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him."  Behold St. Ba-ROCK, the golden calf for the twenty-first century.

Ya wanna know who else seems to have adapted the notion that all spiritual paths lead to the same place?  Here's a hint: "Barry" can't wait to chat with him:

Ahmadinejad also again expressed his apocalyptic vision that tyranny in the world be abolished by the return to Earth of the Mahdi, the 12th imam of Shiite Islam, alongside great religious figures including Jesus Christ.

“With the appearance of the promised saviour… and his companions such as Jesus Christ, tyranny will be soon be eradicated in the world.”

Adolph's ecumenicalism is a little more....proactive than BO's faintly unitarianist strain, but they still come off - given the "church" in which the latter spent his entire adult life up through last Saturday - as...well, maybe not quite brothers, but two guys who could play an amicable game of horseshoes together at the next "church" picnic.

Or their 2009 unconditional summit, whichever comes first.