While flipping channels this morning I came across President-Elect Obama announcing his choice of Hillary Clinton for Sec. of State. He described her as sharing his core values and the core values of the American people.
What are these core values? To me, core values are something that someone has sat down, thought through, and settled on for themselves. Certainly many people can have many of them in common, that really isn’t my point. The thing that struck me about this passing statement is that Mr. Obama assumes all Americans have the same core values. It seems to me that when you watch the news that is far from the case.
Anyway, all of this to say that if I had the same core values as Mr. Obama, I would have voted for him. I just don’t care for the assumption and the false sense of unity that throwing around such a phrase generates. That’s my gripe and I’m sticking to it.
It’s election time. No, not in the Calvinist sense, but in the political sense. Though there are some that would argue that who the next president will be has already been determined buy “them”. But I digress.
Much is being made of the candidates faith, especially in light of the recent whoop-tee-doo at Saddleback. Particularly Sen. Obama’s statements on abortion and gay marriage commingled with his professed Christian faith. I’ll get to those responses in a moment. What is being portrayed in the media and some books regarding Obama’s faith is the sincerity of his faith. As if sincerity is the test. They say that his faith permeates his politics. If that is the case then his sincere Christian faith isn’t a Biblical one.
(Before I get into this I want to point out that this isn’t an anti-Barak for president, nor is it a pro-McCain statement. It’s more of a commentary about how faith is lived out as well as how what it means to be a Christian has become skewed from the days of Jesus, Paul, and Peter to what it is today. This really isn’t a political rant, it just happens to be a good example of what’s happening in Christendom today.) Read the rest of this entry »
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