This above is from Focus on the Family While FotF is showing a regressive tribalistic mysticism (not quite imprecatory prayer) Colorado needs rain. I don’t think Focus on the Family is overly concerned about the needs of the land or the state, do you?
This one is from John McCain. Note the biblical twisting of Revelation - as some say the dog-whistle to the religious right to people such as John Hagee followers. I find this maligning voters, and it tops the Brittney/Paris ad. This is dirtier. More at Street Prophets.
Published 5 months, 1 week agoBetween this ad and the Britney/Paris spot, John McCain has demonstrated that there is literally no depth to which he is not prepared to sink in search of a few votes. This isn’t even scraping the barrel; it’s crawling around in the muck underneath the barrel.
I am not as concerned as some of my secular blogger friends who think this is aimed at inciting the kind of whackjob who might take a shot at Obama. But then had you told me last Saturday that a gunman might attack a Unitarian-Universalist congregation, I would have said it was a pretty remote possibility.
Whether or not McCain is suborning violence, he’s definitely appealing to the crackpot vote, which is larger than people sometimes realize or care to admit. More to the point, as Mara says, McCain is dragging the rest of us through the mud with him. This ad is founded on the anxiety of gullible believers scanning the sky for the Rapture. Its subtext is that Democrats are too stupid to notice the difference between a presidential candidate and a false messiah, that we are so enthusiastic about Obama that we would literally play into the hands of the anti-Christ.
It doesn’t get much more insulting than that. Nor does get much more contemptuous of the role of faith in modern life.
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There’s a lesson in here about vanity and the
hubris of the righteous.
Nowhere do I see or hear any element of humility
or grace.
It’s sad to see that people who claim righteousness
as an asset have become so consumed that the
great qualities of Christianity have fallen by the
wayside.
There is more concern for the “I” and not the “we”.
“We” is a word frequently used in the Declaration
of Independence. “One people” is used in the
opening paragraph.
Perhaps it’s time for some people to read more closely
and examine inwardly more carefully and to criticise
and challenge where contradictions arise. These are
elements that founded the nation and now they are
sadly not in daily use.
Maybe humility and charity will come back to govern
the nation’s hearts and minds.
Hmmm….if Obama can part waters, wouldn’t that thwart prayers for rain?
If Hal Lindsay says Obama is a foretaste for the Anti-Christ…
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/08/obama_harbinger.html
…who am I to argue?
I’m not a fan of that ad. I don’t think it’s nearly as ominous as you do, but it’s not all that witty when they were aiming for witty.
There was a British video spoofing the Obama foreign trip in faux-messianic tones that was better and funnier than the McCain video.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/07/25/hannity-colmes-plays-gospel-about-obama-parody
Had they just linked to that, they’d be ahead of the game. Such stuff is better left to YouTube parodists as opposed to campaigns proper.
As per Hal Lindsay, he’s entitled to his opinion, even when it’s wrong.