Obama: Beyond the Idea of an Icon

Obama: Beyond the Idea of an Icon

Written by Selwyn Duke

01 October 2009

http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/1978-obama-beyond-the-idea-of-an-icon

There has long been a certain objection to the divine command that we should worship God. It is simply: Why does God need you to worship Him? It is, really, an eminently fair question, and it has an eminently logical answer: God doesn’t need you to worship Him. You need to worship Him.

Worshipping God has, among other things, the very great by-product of reminding us who God is and, by extension, who He is not: us. This may seem obvious, but history has shown that this simple fact more often than not eludes man. For instance, Egyptian pharaohs were considered very important gods in their culture; in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar erected a statue of himself with the inscription, “The unvanquished god”; and in the mid 2200s B.C., King Narim-Sin of the Akkadian Empire was known as “the god of Agade.”

But today, in the United States, most feel very much removed from such things. Why, our first president, George Washington, not only wouldn’t deify himself, he wouldn’t even accept an offer of kingship. Yet, also today, we see something very different. We see a man being referred to as “the messiah” and “the One,” a man around whom a seemingly unprecedented cult of personality has arisen. That man is, of course, Barack Obama.

Go to this link for the full article: http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/1978-obama-beyond-the-idea-of-an-icon

Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

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