Imagine the following scenarios: terrorist strikes on four U.S. cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe; Israel hit by a nuclear bomb; gay marriage in every state; the end of the Boy Scouts. In an imaginary “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America”, produced by a so called Christian group Focus on the Family Action, these and other things happen with Senator Barack Obama as president.
The imagined look into the future is part of an escalation in peddling fear from so called Christian right activists who are trying to paint Senator Obama in the worst possible picture as we enter the final stretch and polls show the Senator Obama ahead.
"It looks like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to me," said the Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, an Obama supporter who backed President Bush in the past two elections and recently officiated at his daughter’s wedding. Pastor Caldwell called the 2012 letter "false and ridiculous."
One of the clear targets is younger Christians who might be considering Senator Obama. The letter rightly suggests that young Christians will provide the margin that let Senator Obama defeat Senator McCain.
The Christian right attacks show that some Christian conservative leaders fear that Senator Obama's faith-based appeals to voters are working. Young Christians (like most people) are tired of speeches which are fear-based, which tries to strong-arm the listener, and state opinion as fact. This will only cause division. Younger voters are hungry for information and balanced discussion.
Hard-edge attacks are common late in campaigns, but the tone of this election year is sharper than usual and the volume has turned up as we get closer to this historic election.
The publisher of Charisma magazine, a Pentecostal publication, titled one of his recent weekly e-mails to readers, "Life As We Know It Will End If Obama is Elected." A group called the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission posted a series of videos on its site and on YouTube called "7 Reasons Barack Obama is not a Christian." I believe the Bible teaches against judging others. And if that is not bad enough the commission accuses Senator Obama of "subtle diabolical (of the devil) deceit" in saying he is Christian. I believe that God will have the final say.
The Christian right is actually caught between a rock and a hard place since they are not enthused with Senator McCain and are afraid of Senator Obama. The Bible teaches that God has not given us the spirit of fear…
Don’t you think it strange that most Black Christians are supporting Senator Obama? Like saying goes, “the most segregated place in America church at 11 o’clock on Sundays. God can not be pleased with that. We ALL need a change.
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