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To: GulfWar1Vet; Califreak; livius; smedley64; chessplayer; Popman; Salamander
I have a habit of reading at least excerpts of New Age material with two things in mind. One is to “know the enemy.” The other is that occasionally, a nugget of truth will be found somewhere in the wrappings - probably placed there to deceive the faithful, but useful nonetheless.

Being a “lightworker” sounds like a good and noble thing. In fact we are told in the Gospel of John that Jesus came as and is the “light of the world.” The problem is, somebody's trying to upstage Him.

I'm not a gambler, but I know a lot of people who are. In competitive games, such as poker, the players look for “tells” - personal idiosyncrasies that betray a person's intentions - neuro-linguistics on a very practical level. Like poker, politics and religion have their “tells” as well.

One definite tell is the relegation of the person of Jesus Christ to simply a player in a bigger game. When someone tells you that lord maitreya has in some way superseded Jesus, or used His life force, or that the work of Jesus was somehow incomplete and needs this maitreya to fix or amplify it - it's time to grab your wallet - and run.

Another tell is moral eqivalency, or religious eqivalency. Saying that Christianity and it's accompanying morality is just as good as what humans have come up with by their own devices (or by mystic revelation from the planet Venus, or the Pleiades) is actually to deny the light shining in our midst.

Finally, the most “telling” of all is the inclusion of Islam as if it were some benign variant on the Judeo/Christian tradition. While other religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism and the Tao do not seek to proselytize and have at their core many good moral principles, Islam alone stands as a perversion whose true disciples revel in conquest, conversion and an insatiable lust for violence and death in homage to their bloody moon god and his insane prophet.

The truth about Obama is hidden in plain sight. He and his lunatic wife “tell” it like it is:

“We are no longer just a Christian nation...we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation a Hindu nation, and a nation of non-believers.” - from “The Audacity of Hope”

We are not, and can never allow ourselves to be a nation that tolerates perversion and murder in the name of religious freedom. Nor can we forget that we ARE a Christian nation, and that it is that fact that is the root and source of our tolerance for others. That is something that all of the groups he identifies - save one - would probably agree to. This so-called lightworker has actively campaigned (as a sitting US Senator) for his cousin in Kenya who has supported a Jihad that has burned Christians alive in their churches and promised the imposition of Sharia law.

There's a reason that you get that “creepy” feeling when you look at him. You're not looking at a Christian spirit ..... it's something else altogether.

118 posted on 06/07/2008 10:55:21 PM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: shibumi
Can't disagree with anything you said. Great post.

Also, as others have mentioned, the idea that it is God's gift of discernment, as it pertains to Obama, is interesting. Maybe that's why so many of us are dumbfounded and frustrated that so many others are blind to the dangers of this man, and think he's a super swell, harmless, caring man, while we see just the opposite. I spend a lot of my internet time on an NFL message board that is kind of a free for all in the off-season as far as topics go, and I'm currently embroiled in several different discussions regarding Obama, and the vapid reasons for liking Obama that are given by people who I would otherwise consider extremely intelligent individuals, is maddening and useless, as no amount of reason seems to be able to penetrate their vision of Obama being some kind of personal savior who fills the void that atheism has left in their souls. These are people that vociferously argue against Christians, and having Christianity in any part of public life, yet they don't even realize that they're making their own God out of a politician by refusing to admit that the man might have even the tinyest of faults, let alone any glaring faults that would keep him, under "normal" circumstances, far away from the White House. Obama scares me, but his devoted followers scare me just as much, or more. He's only one person, while there are millions and millions of them.

The first time I saw him was when I went to visit my parents in Illinois for Christmas in 2005, and he was on the TV. I knew nothing about him except that my liberal parents loved him, and they told me that he was a shoe-in for the Dem nomination in 2008, which told me what side of the political aisle he was from, but not much more than that. Then he came on the TV and they sat staring at him with their unblinking eyes glazed over and this creepy smile on their faces, and as I looked at him, I just got this overwhelming feeling of dread, which has only increased with each passing month, and each passing year, as his recognition became more national. Outside of Illinois, most people had never heard of the guy until recently, but I knew of him 3.5 years ago, so you can imagine how I might feel now, as he's "climbed the ladder" for the last 4 years, coming out of nowhere, all the way to the Dem nomination. Ugh.

121 posted on 06/08/2008 2:22:49 AM PDT by smedley64
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To: shibumi

Very interesting analysis! And completely correct, of course.

It is true that one tends to think of New Agers as being dumb as the day is long but basically harmless. However, I think we’ve rather ignored the fact that a large part of our fellow citizens have somehow, almost without thinking about it, become New Agers. This stuff spreads through Oprah and other mass media gurus and has even invaded liberal churches. The result is that while many people would probably not identify themselves as New Agers, their beliefs are identical.

The revolting adulation of Obama has completely mystified me, but if one thinks of vast numbers of de facto New Agers sitting out there waiting for their enlightened master, and then having the media rush forward to play John the Baptist and proclaim him, this makes perfect sense.


122 posted on 06/08/2008 3:12:50 AM PDT by livius
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To: shibumi

I always thought that the “New Age” stuff was kind of a way that people can claim spirituality while choosing an alternative lifestyle or without having to change, as in “Repent! Go and sin no more”.

It’s a shame so many people are deceived by this nonsense.


123 posted on 06/08/2008 5:29:21 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: shibumi
Excellent post

Finally, the most “telling” of all is the inclusion of Islam as if it were some benign variant on the Judeo/Christian tradition.

I'm one of those people who "learned everything I need to know about Islam on 9/11"

On 9/10, Islam was unknown to me except as the religion of the middle East and I bought into the lie that Judeo/Christian/Islam was the big three religions all cut from the same rock. "God" or "Jehovah"

Islam may have small aspects of Judaism in it from traditions, but allah (cult moon god) and his murdering pedophile of a prophet Mad Mo' and their hordes of blood thirsty savages isn't a religion, it a political system bent on world or at minimum regional domination of all things, In many ways they are worst then communist

The chasm of difference between Christianity and Islam is so great and so vast it's mindboggling when still there are MSM or academia mouthpieces still refer to Islam as the child of Judeo/Christian tradition. It's more like bastard child spawned from pits of hell

125 posted on 06/08/2008 6:24:59 AM PDT by Popman
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