Call and response style worship at an Obama community event. Except the prayers are offered up to the state, the false god of our age, personified in one man: Barack Obama.
UPDATE 10/6/09: The person who made this YouTube clip might have taken some liberties...it sounds like they say "oh God" not "Obama" in the latter few responses. Though the first ones do sound eerily like "Obama." Thanks to Rempel in the comments for the heads up on that. The important point, though, is that regardless of whether they're saying Obama or oh God, they are looking to the god of the state as the savior, not the God of the Bible. This is a political event led by priests in robes; their religion is a political one and their god is a political one. It is sad to see people captive to another gospel. Let's not go down that road and worship politics as our salvation.
~Matthews: Presidential address is a "religious experience"
~"Obama is sort of..."? Did he really just say that?
~Obama: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
~American Civic Religion: Obama as Moses, Messiah, and more
~The American Civic Religion appears again, this time in the form of Obama's Freemasonic inauguration rituals
~Now here's a man whose government I can get behind!
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It may sound weird but it's not a serious worship of Obama.
ReplyDeleteI disagree, but I'm glad to see that you're comfortable voicing your perspective.
ReplyDeleteHear our cry oh God, deliver us oh God changed to hear our cry Obama, deliver us Obama is pretty blatant to me.
In this clip, Obama, not God is considered the savior worthy or our petitions.
If you prefer, perhaps this is a liturgical PRAYER rather than "worship" in the narrow sense of the word. But those whom we pray to we also ascribe supremacy to (i.e. worship).
I have seen/heard this video elsewhere and it is clear to MY ears that these folks are saying, Hear our cry, O God...not Obama.
ReplyDeleteI have listened to it multiple times to hear the name Obama, and yet, this is what I continue to hear, Deliver us O God -- the words printed over the video to the contrary...could it possibly be that these are indeed sincere Christians calling out to God?
I agree. As much as I would love for them to be saying "Hear our cry Obama", it sounds like they are saying "O God".
ReplyDeleteThe first ones sound like Obama, but then the latter ones sound like God. I'm going to update the post. Thanks for the heads up, guys.
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