Obamanation

I’m not the first to say it, but I’m still going to say that America has officially become an “obamanation” in the sight of God. Obama has charmed and lied his way into the presidency, and the powers of Hell are rejoicing. Lord, what a disaster! Soon we’ll see the Freedom of Choice Act (a.k.a. the License to Kill Act) in place, and there will be no safe haven for unborn children anywhere in this country. Partial-birth abortion will be allowed in every state and all restrictions on abortion will be lifted. Thank you, American people, for the wanton destruction of your own children! This is “your victory,” as your new hero has proclaimed. The genocide will not only continue, but will increase in its bloody vehemence.

We also have to thank especially the “Christian” people of our country. If the Catholics alone would have voted according to the tenets of our faith, the election would have turned out differently. I have been forced to come to a chilling conclusion: the election of Obama was the will of God. This is why I say this. Millions of people were praying to God to spare the unborn from unmitigated slaughter. Many were fasting and keeping vigil. Priests and even bishops were offering Masses. Scripture says that if we pray according to God’s will He will grant what we ask. But God rejected millions of prayers and sacrifices for this urgent intention. It must be that it was already too late. He had already decided that the wheels of the Apocalypse should start to turn. Another frightening thing I read is that there were pagan priests and priestesses praying and offering sacrifices to demons so that Obama would be elected, and their prayers were answered! Look out, America, for the wrath of God is going to fall on you.

(It was interesting to note that on the very night of his election, Obama was already hinting that he’s going to renege on his campaign promises, or at least that we’re not going to see his vaunted “change” anytime soon: “The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term…” Sheesh, he’s already running for re-election!)

There was recently published an insightful analysis into the Obama phenomenon by the Catholic author Michael D. O’Brien. I’ll share some of it here. This is what we’ve brought upon ourselves. This is our new president:

“A few weeks ago a German friend called me immediately after Obama’s speech in Berlin, to say that the presidential candidate had mesmerized the crowds, and that a commentator on German television had said: ‘We have just heard the next President of the United States…and the future President of the World’… From my own reading of Obama’s declarations and stated positions, I knew he was an ultra-liberal, a social revolutionary with visionary pretensions. But the Antichrist? No, not possible, I thought. I felt that he was too shallow a man to be the Son of Perdition, the Man of Sin, the Beast of the Book of Revelation. And I still think so. Obama is a crowd-pleaser with just the right ethos of idealistic crusader. That the crusade and the banners under which it marches are evil does not automatically prove that he is the Antichrist.

“But now that I have seen the video of the Berlin speech I think there is more here than meets the eye. He is indeed a powerful manipulator of crowds, even as he appears ever so humble and wholesomely charming. I doubt that he is the long-prophesied ruler of the world, but I also believe that he is a carrier of a deadly moral virus, indeed a kind of anti-apostle spreading concepts and agendas that are not only anti-Christ but anti-human as well. In this sense he is of the spirit of Antichrist (perhaps without knowing it), and probably is one of several key figures in the world who (knowingly or unknowingly) will be instrumental in ushering in the time of great trial for the Church under its last and worst persecution, amidst the numerous other tribulations prophesied in the books of Daniel and Revelation, and letters of St Paul, St. John, and St. Peter.

“Of course the mystique that has grown up around him is endlessly reinforced by the liberal media, which presents him to us as a high-minded humanist, a kind of secular messiah (see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 675). Yet when all the rhetoric is boiled down to its substance, the man is advocating unlimited state-sanctioned murder, and compounds it by indulging in habitual falsehood. He is well accustomed to playing loose with the truth whenever it is expedient for him to do so; or else he is the victim of the largest memory lapses in recorded history; or perhaps he is just not careful about how he expresses things—a blurring or selectivity regarding facts for the purpose of aggrandizing his public image…

“What are we to make of a man who has appeared out of semi-obscurity and become, nearly overnight, so very much an idol of the popular imagination? That he intends to become the most effective advocate of murder of the unborn ever seen in America should give us pause. Murder and lies are as old as the lands east of Eden, of course, but when they are charmingly packaged, proposed as reasonable and just policies (with a smile, a resonant voice, and an appealing flash of the eyes), one begins to wonder just what is afoot in the modern age. It brings to mind a passage from the first Act of Shakespeare’s Hamlet:

“‘That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain…’

“The line is from a scene where prince Hamlet has just encountered the ghost of his father, who informs his son that he was poisoned by his own brother Claudius (the ‘smiling, damned villain’), who after murdering him, seized the king’s crown and his queen.

“Barack Obama is an image-maker, creating his own myth as he goes along. This would be a sad defect in any human being, but it takes on ominous proportions in a person who may become, after November 4th, one of the most powerful figures in the world. How is it possible that such a tragic turn of events may come about, if indeed a majority of Americans choose to believe the smile and the myth? Why is it that so many people have come to believe that a mirage is reality, even destiny? Do pro-Obama voters hanker for a world figure who would heal old divisions between races and religions, thus heralding a new age for mankind? During this time of near intolerable tensions, does he appear to be the one who can reconcile Islam and Christianity, Africa and America, occident and orient, black and white, rich and poor? Do they see his racial origins as a symbolic victory over the history of racial oppression? Do they see in him the good-hearted ‘under-dog’, the gutsy street fighter who agitates for the rights of the ‘little guy,’ whose meteoric rise to a position of maximum influence represents themselves enthroned at last in the high seat of power? Is this why they ignore his every grave fault and hungrily consume his vague idealist platitudes as if these were a kind of new gospel for the third millennium? Our hero. Our visionary. Our Great Friend and spokesman in the forum of the world?…

“So why Obama? And why does he rise and rise as his mouth smiles and smiles, exuding sincerity as he speaks lies and death?  And why, most horribly, most shamefully, are so many Christians of malformed or unformed conscience supporting him? Is it because they have never been clearly instructed in the truth, never understood the foundation upon which the moral cosmos is built? Is morality for them merely another system of abstract ‘values’ in a crowded playing field of such systems, from which one may pick and choose? In the case of Catholics, for example, have they been blinded by a diet of theological nuances and deadly little loopholes offered to them by the committees of national episcopal conferences — committees that have absolutely no authority over Catholics, yet which are widely revered as a kind of alternative Magisterium? … One either turns away into a deeper state of denial, or one turns heart and mind toward the splendor of Truth, and changes one’s life accordingly.”

It looks like God has given us up to our own chosen depravities (see Rom. 1:18-32). St Paul, when dealing with a single evildoer in the Corinthian church, commanded the faithful, with the power of Jesus, “to deliver this man to satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (1Cor. 5:3-5). Has God just delivered America to satan, that is, permitted us to suffer the consequences of our evil choices so that in the end we may repent and be saved? “Do not be deceived,” says the Apostle, “God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Gal. 6:7). America has sown evil in electing the grinning monster to the presidency. She will reap an evil harvest. Judgment will inexorably come, one way or another. Will America turn back to God? Will she wait until it is too late? “They turn to Me their backs and not their faces; yet in their time of trouble they cry out, ‘Rise up and save us!’ Where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up!” (Jer. 2:27-28).