Disclaimer; for those of you who are Jewish, and or had relatives suffer in the death camps, please understand the following three paragraphs are meant as an absurdity and does not represent my views of Hitler.
Our boy Adolph, you know, he did a lot of great things. Germany was in a mess after world war one, just a shell of her former self. Germans were out of work and little German kids were going to bed hungry for God’s sake. Then, a hero stepped up, a man of the people. A man just like them, born of poverty, fought in the trenches, he knew what it was like to be one of them. Why, he even served time in prison.
Yes, our boy Adolph rose to power amidst the world’s darkest moments. He came in to office riding a wave of hope and change. He nationalized most everything, unified the German people, upgraded, and industrialized his nation. Why, old Adolph was an environmentalist and a vegetarian to boot. Soon, the German people were eating, singing, and dancing again, ah the good times. People were once again proud to be Germans.
Today, I move that Harvard University award Adolph Hitler an honorary Degree. Yes, for all the good he did for his people. After all, he was a man of the people. Okay so as chancellor he had a few hiccups. Yea, yea, so 50 million people died. So he gassed a few million Jews, no one is perfect.
This example is meant as an absurdity, but no more absurd then what I watched today. Two Catholic priests debate whether Obama should receive an honorary degree from Notre Dame. The priest that supported this said that the University was honoring Obama for the good he stands for and not for the bad things that fly square in the face of the church or Christianity. The key to the second priest’s argument against the awarding of the degree centered around the abortion debate.
I used Hitler to paint a picture of absurdity and logic because while he did do a whole lot of terrible things, in the beginning, he did do many good things for the German people. Using the same logic as the first priest, one cannot argue against my absurd example that Hitler should be awarded an honorary degree. My point is not to debase Obama, and paint him out as Hitlarian but rather to point out the absurdities of Christians.
I am appalled at how many Christians are willing to subordinate their religious beliefs to their political beliefs. I cannot speak for Hindus, Buddhists, or Muslims. I can only speak as a Christian. If we as Christians belong to a Church that says we should do this, and not that, because as a Church we believe this is what God commands, then we should do this and not that. Yet, so many Christians supported Obama despite the fact he is pro choice. Moreover, both Protestants and Catholics support him despite the fact he seems to be very anti-Christian.
For me, my belief in God supersedes my politics. If I am faced with a choice, renounce my faith and accept the political, or be put to death, then death it is. Death even if I believe in most of what my government stands for. We cannot compromise our faith for our politics. Either we believe in what we hold to be sacred or we don’t.
One hand, we cannot believe in life and award a man who does not. We cannot believe in our God and award a man who openly denies the founders beliefs in God even though they clearly stated their Judao-Christian beliefs in their writings. We cannot award a man who denounces our faith to the world while standing in a Muslim country. We cannot award a man who waters down the faith based initiatives with an anti Christian, Pope hating man. We cannot award a man who takes prayer out of the White House on the National Day of Prayer.
More importantly, we cannot subjugate our faith to the will of politicians. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNEEL AND PRAY ANYWHERE AND ANY TIME WE WANT. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO READ OUR BIBLES IN ANY FORUM WE SO CHOOSE. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SHOW OUR SYMBOLS OF FIATH ON THE HIGHEST MOUNTIAN IN THE LAND. GOD himself granted us these rights. This, my friends is what the founders referred to as natural law and unalienable rights, the law and rights given us by God.
