I have been a hypocrit this week, watching the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills series, for research, I tell myself. This past season has a real witch, a Wiccan on it and it seems that the series is now trying to expand that sort of spirituality. On the episode I am currently watching, Carlton, the Wiccan has Yolanda, an Illuminti mkultra slave,, married to the music man who truly thinks he is god himself, to a store that is Art of spiritualism. The owner of the store reads Carltons candle, telling her it represents the strongest goddess,,,truly evil, the Destroyer in fact, ,,,and Carlton is honored, cuz she is seriously into witchcraft, and puts spells on other castmates. Well, in the store was a banner that had a picture of Obama on it with the word believe, so I googled what spiritualists believe about Obama and this article came up. Obama is the new age teacher, he is the Mahdi, who knows what other titles these Occultic spiritualists give him,,,but this article explains why Christians Better Realize that without saying so, Obamas is our mortal enemy. There is One True God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. No man gets to the Father in Heaven, except through Jesus Christ, the savior of all mankind. Obama is definitely antichrist! This is from the article, which I will link in comments; Obama’s spiritual-but-not-religious politics In 2008, presidential candidate Obama generally drew on the older form of civil religion, proving himself comfortable with biblical language, social justice evangelicalism, and the themes of Christian theology, with an occasional nod toward Islam or Buddhism. By 2012, however, President Obama’s tone had changed. His speeches included a far more embracing view of God, along with an appeal to a wider faith audience. The transformation of Obama’s civil religious speech was most apparent in his second inaugural address in January 2013. In it, the president moved beyond specifically biblical images and language toward a broader set of spiritual themes to speak to for a diverse American future. The address began with a powerful image: America is on a journey, a perpetual pilgrimage, never arriving at a settled place. At our best, we seek deeper justice, greater knowledge of ourselves, and elusive wisdom as we try to live in the world and remain faithful to our original principles. “Today we continue a never-ending journey,” President Obama stated, “to bridge the meaning of those words [of our founding texts] with the realities of our time.” We are political sojourners. Journey is not only a biblical image. It is a central theme to many faiths: the Buddhist seeking enlightenment; a Native American on a vision quest; a Muslim embarked on the Hajj; a Jew hoping for “next year in Jerusalem” at Passover; a Catholic visiting a shrine; a Protestant tracing the footsteps of Martin Luther; a Wiccan making a way to Stonehenge; a humanist celebrating Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. We are a nation of spiritual migrants and immigrants, a restless sort of people, on innumerable sojourns paying homage to our saints and heroes, always searching out new meaning in the universe we inhabit. Religious people—and non-religious ones as well—understand pilgrimage as the call to leave the familiar for an uncertain destination. Pilgrimage is a shared sacred practice, one that can frame American meaning whether you think of it as a reference to the Exodus, Jesus in the wilderness, Muhammad’s journey to Mecca, medieval travelers following the Camino, or novices at a Buddhist meditation center. A journey is an invitation toward a new understanding of who we are and who we might be. In the second inaugural, President Obama proposed that the American journey is not aimless. Instead, it is a journey toward a deep realization of community, prosperity, mutual care, stewardship of the Earth, peacemaking, and human rights. These six ideals form an American creed, the fundamental aspects of the democratic project. Each one of these could be interpreted as Christian or Jewish (as they have traditionally been) or could be much more widely understood through other religious perspectives. The address ended with a call to action: Serve the poor, have hope in the future, renew your hearts. Make new the nation’s ancient covenant of justice and equality in this uncertain world. Create a new American future. And, of course, President Obama referred to God. Mentioning God would seem to limit the possibility of a new civil religion—after all, the new American pluralism includes a large number of atheists, agnostics, secularists, and humanists. It has often been noted that President Obama invokes God far more often than many of his predecessors. But, listening carefully, it becomes obvious that the God of Obama’s public speech is not the God of previous presidents. Gone is the God of biblical revelation, the generalized God-as-Father-in-Heaven, and the distant God of Providence. Rather, Obama’s public God is a personal spirit, the relational presence of inclusion, community, empathy, irony, justice, and service. The God of this new and emerging American civil religion is a God who is with humankind, a far more embracing rather than judgmental figure, who loves and acts in the world through the works of human beings. Most theists can recognize this God (or gods) in their own religious traditions; most non-theists can interpret this sort of God as a spirit of beauty or justice in humankind. Thus, Obama opened the theological door of American civil religion toward atheists and humanists as well as those who hold to more conventional faiths. This God may or may not be the God one chooses to worship at church or pray to at home, but this is a God (or “not-God”) who can function in the public square to bind Americans together with a larger sense of meaning and purpose. President Obama’s 2013 inaugural address modeled an innovative form of pluralistic post-religious civil discourse. The speech reaches away from traditional civil religion and toward civil spirituality—a less dogmatic, more open-ended form of inspirational public speech. As a doctrine, civil spirituality is still in its infancy. But as American pluralism grows and deepens, it is very possible that this sense of communal spirituality will mature and bind us together as did the tradition of civil religion in the past. And like some of the great presidents who articulated older forms of public faith, President Obama will be remembered for pointing a way from within our religious diversity toward a fuller unity.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:16:24 +0000
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