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Eloquent Speech, Troubling
Worldview
by Kenneth Blackwell
Posted 03/18/2008 ET
Updated 03/18/2008 ET
Barack Obama just gave an eloquent speech, but one that does not address the underlying nature of Senator Obama's beliefs. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, like Mr. Obama, believes in a state-centered 21st century form of big-government socialism. This 21st century form of socialism is at the heart of the Liberation Theology Rev. Wright preaches from the pulpit. Today, Mr. Obama again made it clear, with all his eloquence, that he still embraces these beliefs that would require dismantling the free-market system that has made our country's economy the most prosperous in all of human history.
In contrast to Liberation Theology, the Christian orthodoxy teaches about the nature of God, the nature of man, the relationship between the two in this life, and about the hereafter. Liberation Theology, on the other hand, is a belief system about political agendas, socialistic economic policy, and redistribution of wealth. Proponents of Liberation Theology, like Rev. Wright, teach that God commands us to form a government that will supervise our economy to create government-subsidized jobs under central-government planning; guarantee healthcare and education by having government control both; and achieve 'economic equality' by redistributing wealth through massive taxes on the affluent and massive government entitlements for the poor. And it advocates replacing governments that do not embrace this socialistic agenda.
Those are the beliefs of Liberation Theology. Those are the offensive root beliefs underlying many of Rev. Wright's sermons. And though Barack Obama does not embrace Mr. Wright's offensive language, he does embrace this government-solves-everything-through-socialism worldview.
His speech was magnificent in its elegance and rhetoric, but today Mr. Obama reminded me yet again of his worldview that embraces, among other things, partial-birth abortion, military weakness, and economic socialism. Thank God for religious liberty, free market, and free elections!
Mr. Blackwell is the former Ohio Secretary of State.
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Blackwell’s Un-American Scheme:
Under the Guise of “Character and Civic Renewal”
Ohio State Foists a Religious Moral Code upon Its Citizens
by Katherine Yurica
J. Kenneth Blackwell has stepped
to the forefront of the
American culture wars. He has posted his official endorsement
of a 20-point religious moral code claimed to be “a shared
vocabulary of character-building ethics” on Ohio’s
official
Secretary of State web site. Blackwell wrote, “Character
is
the cornerstone of American citizenship. And good citizenship
is the foundation of community. But to a lot of people, civic
renewal means the opportunity to not only religionize our
government, but, as we shall see, to create a new religion
that is decidedly not Christianity. Instead, it is an opportunity
to
convert our citizens into docile followers of a new authoritarian
rule. Includes a linked glossary of definitions of terms plus
parallel
columns that compare the text.
Blackwell's Scheme:
Ohio State's Religious-Moral
Code Deciphered
In Parallel Columns
Annotations
by Katherine Yurica
Blackwell's Scheme:
Glossary of Terms
From Ohio State's
Religious-Moral
Code
How the Cult Is Sold to the Public
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