Barack and Aimee
Barack as Faith-Healer?
Matt Sutton
The Washington Times ran an obnoxious, provocative editorial this morning dubbing Barack Obama a modern faith-healer. While I vehemently disagree with much of the article, the issue of Obama as a Messiah-figure is worth thinking about. And, most importantly, anyone who links Obama to Aimee Semple McPherson can’t be all bad, right??
Matt Sutton
The Washington Times ran an obnoxious, provocative editorial this morning dubbing Barack Obama a modern faith-healer. While I vehemently disagree with much of the article, the issue of Obama as a Messiah-figure is worth thinking about. And, most importantly, anyone who links Obama to Aimee Semple McPherson can’t be all bad, right??
Comments
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
Given our national obsession with celebrities, projecting a Messianic aura around Obama may say a lot more about our dream for a Messiah. Of course I do not wish to impute that Obama is a "Messiah." For me, Obama certainly comes across as a blend of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy--icons who exuded a Messianic quality. However, to me, Obama is nothing more than a politician--a smooth-talking man who certainly tells the people what they want to hear.
Rabbi Michael Samuel
I fail to see what any of this really says about Obama as a candidate, other than that poor Wesley Pruden is a wee bit uncomfortable, and is just clever enough to figure out how to use new age spirituality as a hammer just as he uses Islam and slave religion. Would that academic publishing were so easy.