Published: October 24, 2009 03:48 pm         

FLASHPOINT: Obama administration wages war on Christianity

“We are no longer a Christian nation.” — Barack Obama.

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” — Obama in his book “Audacity of Hope.”

President Obama promised us change, no specifics, just change, and he has surely delivered on that promise. Will our nation recover? The stimulus package was loaded with pork and it focused on the public sector, whereas real job creation must come from private business. Government, having no requirement to turn a profit, cannot be trusted to manage anything efficiently. Furthermore, “cap and trade” and the high inflation which will inevitably come from multi-trillion dollar deficits when the current de-leveraging of financial instruments is complete may not be called taxes, but they have the same effect and hurt the poor the most. Obama people have called those who would disagree with these policies terrorists. Interestingly, our Founding Fathers would fit that criteria.

Obama has also loaded his administration with hard-line socialists, of which Van Jones, a self-avowed communist, is an egregious example. Our Founding Fathers knew that power and greed are problems of government so they established a Constitution based on the separation of powers in the federal government and between the government and the states in the 10th Amendment.

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” — Edmund Burke.

Obama’s staffing of the White House with 34 Czars says much about his plan to rule our country without opposing views which might arise from the traditional Congressional vetting process. On the legislative side we have these thousand-page bills, created in an atmosphere of panic, so that they would be passed quickly before anybody has a chance to read them. Fortunately, the country was waking up with the health bill, delaying its passage so we could see what was in it. And much of what was in it was ambiguous, and those who would deceive us know how they would interpret it later. Any bill over a hundred pages should be seen as an attempt to deceive.

For a century now those spoken of by presidents Woodrow Wilson and FDR as the “hidden money power” have made end runs around the Constitution to centralize power in Washington. The Constitution leaves management of public education to local authorities. The federal government now controls much of it, together with the National Education Association whose Executive Secretary Givens has said that the mission of the public schools was to implant socialist values in our children. Their agenda, stated at their annual conference, is to have complete control of the education and values of America’s children. Its graphic sex-ed to even the youngest children and throwing God out on dishonest grounds of church and state have contributed immensely to a moral demise in our nation, and moral demise always precedes physical collapse. Such physical collapse may come through the bankrupting spending policies of our government and the continuing war in Afghanistan such as being fought under impossible conditions. A good general picks his battlefield, and it is certainly not one where the enemy can shoot from ambush and hide among innocent civilians.

Although this quote of Voltaire (one of the major architects of the French Revolution) is against Christianity, it would equally apply to what we get from some of our politicians, “In the war against Christianity,” according to Voltaire, “it is necessary to lie like the devil, not timidly, and for a time, but boldly and always.”

— Frank W. Thompson

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