The Importance of Not Voting for Barack Obama

Talk around the water cooler is cheap. Whatever the election pollsters are saying, a lot can happen to change things in the minds of voters immediately prior to a national vote. Candidates can affect the vote with a series of gaffs as they get either anxious or even over confident about their campaign status.


I am amazed at the number of Christians that claim to be conservatives who say they are backing Barack Obama. There are some currently high profile types backing him who just one election cycle past, were saying that Christians should stay out of politics--because it could hurt Christianity. One emergent church pastor/author in particular is touring with the Obama Faith Family and Values Tour. He has said that he is voting for Senator Obama because, "Barack is the only candidate willing to talk about his faith in Jesus."


Hillary Clinton talked about her faith. Mike Huckabee talked about his. Just two months ago, John McCain spoke about his faith at the Saddleback Mountain Church alongside Barack Obama. Didn't John McCain talk about his faith then? Guess he missed that. This man also stated that he supports Barack Obama because Barack is his Christian brother.


The trouble with that statement is of course, that Barack Obama does not take Jesus at His word. Senator Obama told Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior. But he is also the man who has said, "‘I am rooted in the Christian tradition,’ but followed that statement with, "I believe there are many paths to the same place and that is a belief there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people." We may all be connected by sin, but Jesus never said that there are many paths to the same place. In fact, He said quite the opposite.


Many of Jesus' followers turned from Him and left Him when He told them the truth. His closest followers stayed with Him however, because He had "the words of life". The hard truth is, if one believed in universalism, one is not a Christian. Whether one is sporting a universalist view in one's theology, or whether one calls one's self a New Ager, the end result is the same. One is essentially saying that Jesus' suffering and death on the Cross was not necessary. Some universalists may argue, "Oh but it was necessary. His atoning death covers all of those who don't know Him." What they don't realize is that their own argument argues against them.


I could go on, but the fact of the matter is that Barack Obama makes a claim to Christianity that are just not backed up by the things he states about his beliefs. Many people fall into that. They don't have a right understanding of the Jesus of the Bible. It is really no wonder that Barack Obama has such a following. He is inter spiritual believer. He is following a different gospel than the one of the Bible.


I asked a question of a Mormon friend once, and when he grasped the truth of it as related to the heresy he was trying to impress upon me, he could no longer think of anything to say. I asked him, "If you were the devil, and you wanted to deceive the world, what would you say to them?" He gave me a rather disconnected answer, and I told him, "No. You would tell people exactly-- what they wanted to hear."


It is no surprise that Barack Obama has gained a worldly following, because he is telling people exactly what they want to hear. What gets to me, is that while he is telling the world what they want to hear ( abortion is okay, embryonic stem cell research is okay, same sex marriage is okay, socialistic values are best) some identified with the Christian community of the United States are following along as if what Senator Obama says pleases their ears too.


Back in December of 2006, Peggy Noonan wrote that the reality of Barack Obama's candidacy seemed to be "part of a pattern of lurches and swerves" that the voting parties had been swaying through over the past odd decade or so, read that: from Clinton to Bush and back. I am not advocating centrism, but I think she was right, and Barack Obama, as the most liberal senator, probably in U.S. history, is about as swerving a left turn as we could take, not to mention that putting him in office would create a power shift to a very liberal Democratic Party the likes of which this nation has never seen. An unchecked Democratic super majority with the nation's most liberal liberal at the head could create issues that plague this nation for many years to come.


I talked with a felon yesterday who has lost his right to vote, and I asked him if he was going to petition to get that back. He said it was a pretty low priority for him. Christian--if you have the right to vote, don't sit back with the same kind of apathy this convicted felon has. Don't sit back and feel tired of fighting for the rights of the unborn. Lives are at stake. If other issues are of serious concern to you too, then vote for the candidate who has said he will preserve life, and then get serious about writing letters to your congressman and to the president elect about how strongly you feel about those issues. Get up. Get serious. Think about it--and vote.