Carnal Reason

There are (at least) two sorts of atheists. One sort, the hard atheists, cannot take seriously the idea of God. They consider believers to be misguided simpletons, at best. The other sort of atheist tries to understand the ideas by which the majority of humanity understands the world. I am one of the latter. I see religion as widespread and fundamental, so much so that some religious ideas are not even generally recognized as religious. For instance, I believe much of modern environmentalism is little more than nature worship. I also see communism and socialism as essentially religious movements. Given my perspective, the current election has been remarkable.

Until recently, most progressive (i.e., socialist) thought has spurned overt belief. Progressives labeled themselves the “reality based community”. The rbc cast themselves as gallant resistance fighters to the (entirely fictional) wave of Christian theocracy headed up by the fundamentalist Bible thumper George Bush. But all that has changed with coming of the black messiah. Now it’s all faith, all the time. Obama wants you to believe. Forget all that old school Question Authority stuff. Now it’s Time To Believe.

Here are two videos. The first is pure “come to Jesus” testimony of the sort you might find at a revival. No ideas, no plans, no policies, just unvarnished emotive manipulation. So far as I can tell, this is seriously intended to persuade people to vote for Obama. It reminds me of a bad Apple commercial.

The second video is more ambiguous. I take it as a satire on Obama messiah hucksterism, but I could be wrong about that. Your call.

Don’t forget to drink the kool aid.

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by pwyll
Filed under: Cult of Obama, politics, religion