Posted on 10/15/2008 4:00:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Dear Friends, A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it's worth repeating...
First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.
Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can't dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.
I can't vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that's who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won't be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.
In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.
We need to follow Martin Luther King's words, don't judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don't know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)
To beat Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.
There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100 % rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.
Let's take a look at the practice he wanted to continue
The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:
A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby) B. The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal. C. The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head. D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole. E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law.
Think about this: You can't give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.
There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.
Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright's sermons. I wonder why now?
Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 - 20 'Go and make disciples of all nations.' This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?
Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a ...
1. Commitment to the White Community 2. Commitment to the White Family 3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic 4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community. 5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions 6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System 7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
Would you support a President who went to a church like that?
Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama's former church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.
This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can't be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world.
A church can't have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if itʼs a white church or a black church it's still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.
Obama's former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: 'Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.
Cone is the man Obama's mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?
So what does all this mean for the nation?
In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment.
Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 'Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.'
Then God says
1 Samuel 1:18 ' When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.' 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.' 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, 'Listen to them and give them a king.'
Here is what we know for sure.
God is not schizophrenic
He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.
Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.
For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. I know I can look the other way because of the economy.
I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama's positions. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.
Since we know someone's value system has to be placed on the nation,
1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation.
2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?
Blessings, Huntley Brown
This is his website: http://www.huntleybrown.com:80/
Very good points. I am not familiar with Huntley Brown either, but I am going to the site later.
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.
Pause a moment, reflect back.
These events are actual events from history..
Do you remember?
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male extremist.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists.
3. In 1979,the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists.
4. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists.
5. In 1983,the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists. (remember the pilot of this flight was from Richmond, MO)
8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists.
9. In 1993 the World TradeCenter was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists.
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists.
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists.
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by— you guessed it— Muslim male extremists.
No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people... Absolutely No Profiling!
They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
According to The Book of Revelations:
* The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40’s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, he will destroy everything.
And Now:
For the award winning Act of Stupidity Of all times the People of America want to elect, to the most Powerful position on the face of the Planet — The Presidency of the United states of America. A Male of Muslim descent who is the most extremely liberal Senator in Congress (in other words an extremist) and in his 40’s.
Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason ???
I’m sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the ‘unknown’ candidate Obama...
Let’s send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other stupid attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves — if they have any such sense.
As the writer of the award winning story ‘Forest Gump’ so aptly put it,
‘Stupid Is As Stupid Does’
Powerful! It scared the crap out of me for our nation to think of a President Obama!
I just went to Mr Brown’s website. Very impressive Christian man. He is a musician, piano, and based on the six minute video at his website, quite a good one.
As he said in the e-mail:
“I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can’t dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.
I can’t vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that’s who I am.”
Sure sounds like someone I’d like to know and count among my friends.
pattyjo
Yes, let us pray for more Christian American blacks, rather than black Christian Americanss.
It’s easy to understand the pride of so many blacks that ‘one of us’ could have risen so far. But, at least for now, this particular man is just not suited for the Oval Office and the most powerful position in the world.
Amen!
Huntley is a wonderful man, Christian, musician, family man, you name it. He travels with Franklin Graham. I met him when he came to my family’s Church in Oxford, AL and I received this email when he sent it to my sister-in-law. He is right, how can a Christian vote or support Obama.
God Bless him for speaking truth.
“It’s easy to understand the pride of so many blacks that ‘one of us’ could have risen so far.”......
I do understand the ‘pride’ thing, as I am a human creature beset with a fair amount of that ‘commodity’ myself. But, as a Christian woman, I recognize just how God feels about the pride of fallen man:
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall”. Proverbs 16:18, and NUMEROUS other places throughout the Psalms and Proverbs.
I KNOW that, to many American blacks, it is a marvelous thing, a triumph, that a black man is in Obama’s position. Many Christian black citizens as well. They are so ‘proud’ of Obama that they have forgotten their true identities as Christians and are running, eagerly, to vote for a man whose words and actions have proven himself to be in fundamental rebellion against God. As Mr Brown says, they will have to answer for this decision to their Maker......and our country will begin to pay the price....if Obama is ever sworn in as President.
Worrisome....but, I DO pray for more ‘Christian American blacks....’, as you do FRiend.
pattyjo
Do not vote for this closet commie. As they progress this thuggish agenda of government control, every race will become slaves. Every religion will be silenced.
Please look and pass it around...
I agree and he knows who he is.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
We really, really, really, really need to break through all this race baiting nonsense and point out that there is black racism as well as white racism.
In the eyes of God, all men are created equal. God doesn’t do affirmative action.
I just saw this posted on Snopes this morning and was going to start a thread. It’s too bad this didn’t get read by more people. It’s an excellent read and has been confirmed as factual.
Jesus said do not worry about what you will have to eat, drink or wear. Instead he said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you." I have long believed that the prosperity of this country will always be an illusion that eventually bursts as we have seen in the dot.com bubble, the housing bubble and now the credit bubble. How can a nation which allows the open slaughter of millions of innocents ask God's blessing?
In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment.
Recently speaking with another pro-life activist at a 40 Days for Life vigil, I expressed my distress that it seemed Sen. Obama would indeed win the presidency. He voiced his belief that God would not allow it, as all the gains made by the pro-life movement would be destroyed. At first, I took comfort in that, thinking he's right, this cause is just, God will not abandon us to the darkness of a Sen. Obama presidency. But, later, I thought of the Bible and how it says that no one ascends to power unless God's will allows it. I was trying to reassure my daughter, and I told her that if God does allow Sen. Obama to gain power, He must have a reason and that reason is ultimately for good.
The worst thing we can do is allow a Sen. Obama win to discourage or deter us in our mission. We must be all the stronger and louder in our call to faithfulness and trust that God who is the author and lover of life will bring His good out of our suffering.
Lastly, I will have the pleasure tonight of attending a banquet where Dr. Alveda King is the keynote speaker. The voices of truth are out there and she is one of them.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
According to The Book of Revelations:
* The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40’s, of MUSLIM descent....
Please cite chapter and verse on that...(especially since Mohamed, Islam, and Muslims are never mentioned in scripture).
One may interpret Revelation as speaking of Islam--but have a care--through the centuries Christians have had every interpretation under the sun about specific persons in Revelation.
BTTT
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