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By Mike DeVine, an original contributor at Race42008.com

Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, it is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. [The Gospel of Matthew 4:1, 6-7 KJV ]

We are told that the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, Barack Obama, threatens to peel off a significant portion of the Evangelical Christian vote that has been the largest and most reliable voting block critical to Republican Party victories in five of the last seven presidential elections. It is said that so many of these voters are alienated from the GOP’s champion in 2008, John McCain, that a large percentage will not only stay home, but that millions will actually cast a vote for the more “overtly Christian” candidate.

Yes, McCain was caught on tape in 2000 telling California republicans that America was not ready for the reversal of the 1973 court decision making abortion legal nationwide, and, when caught, lashed out at two prominent evangelical televangelists. Since then, Senator McCain has voted to confirm two pro-life justices of the Supreme Court. Senator Obama not only opposed Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, but also bemoaned a court ruling upholding a federal law prohibiting the killing of babies whose legs dangle towards Earth outside the womb while their skulls remain inside the scissor-accessible vaginas. Moreover, Obama opposes laws that require that born alive infants who survive botched abortions not be drowned or otherwise snuffed out while still attached to their moms via umbilical chord.

Obama, the sweet, compassionate, Jesus loving Christian formerly a member of the “Minister” Louis Farrakhan honoring, Trinity United against God damned America, whose words below were heard in 2006 above the din of his 20-year pew-parked butt in Rev. Wrights’ church, saying:

Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America’s population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

And even if we did have only Christians within our borders, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? James Dobson’s, or Al Sharpton’s? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount – a passage so radical that it’s doubtful that our Defense Department would survive its application?

Funny how a “once” (but no longer, according to Obama) Christian nation got so diverse, isn’t it? Of course, we never were “just” a Christian nation. What we were, and still are, is a nation founded by mostly Christian believers, many of whom came here to escape religious persecution, and whose founders, while not all orthodox believers, nevertheless embraced the Judeo-Christian values of the Bible as superior to all values on Earth.

Now why, pray tell, would we want to ditch the values that allowed Obama’s precious value of “diversity” to flourish. Have the Islamic values overseas fostered diversity over there or do most of those nations make it a capital offense to say the name of the Apostle Paul?

Whose Christianity would we teach in schools?

Well, how about whatever version each local school prefers, rather than have Obama’s superhero oligarch lawyers on the Supreme Court impose a supposed valueless secular religion on children that alienates them from their parents by equating the utterance of their God’s name in science class with the F-word? And in Chicago, why y’all could still teach your brand of a black Christ whose Pop damns America and blames all the world’s problems on greedy white people in audaciously hopeful sermons.

Obama, you mock Holy Scripture that Christ came to fulfill when you conflate old Jewish laws meant for a people under siege much like an army in which strict discipline is essential to survival.

And while you must understand that the Sermon on the Mount delivered by Jesus “render unto Caesar” Christ was not meant for government, let’s explore what an application of same to American armed forces would reveal, shall we deacon?

Will our blessed forces serving today in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world and those that served from 1776-yesterday:

That mourn, be comforted?
That are merciful, obtain mercy?
That make peace, be called the children of God?
That are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, inherit the kingdom of heaven?
That are reviled and persecuted have all manner of evil falsely said against them, be rewarded with eternal life?

Christ laid down his life for you Obama. Hundreds of thousands of DOD employees have as well. Their families mourn for the fallen among them, as well as the fallen on 911 and their fallen comrades in arms in Iraq and the fallen innocent Iraqis before and after the liberators of the red, white and blue arrived without any tricked up light blue comic seals.

Has the United States and its military been merciful in the Argonne, Paris, The Philippines, Korea, Berlin, Vietnam, Bosnia, Baghdad and Kabul? Surely, and in spades.

Did protestors “make” peace in Vietnam or Cambodia? Communists in Dallas or Poland? Jihadists in RFK’s Los Angeles or US embassies in Africa? Community organizers anywhere on Earth?

No!

Can any of the above survive the application of Mountain sermons better than the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines?

NO!

Yet, who made peace in Europe twice, freed the slaves of the now Reagan-killed Soviet Union, and mostly now in ancient Babylon?

Who actually “makes” peace but those that vanquish the mass slaughterers, whether they be anti-Christian Kaisers, Nazis, Communists or Taliban?

The armed forces, mostly Christian soldiers of the United States of America have made more peace than all the prize winners of the Nobel variety combined and multiplied by a trillion!

Shall DeVine gamecock dignify the mocking of scripture any longer? Not much longer, but just long enough to tackle Satan’s favorite modern day liberal mock of the past 40+ years, i.e.

38: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40: And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
41: And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42: Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46: For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?

Nowhere above does Christ speak of refusing to defend others. He speaks of “thee” and so on. But let’s look at the case anyway.

How many times did the United States turn the other cheek to German u-boats; the Viet Cong; radical hippies; Ted Kennedy Borkers; Iran and its proxies since 1979; Iraq from 1992-2003 as they fired on our planes, tried to kill President Bush 41, and publicly sponsored suicide bombers; and al Qaeda from 1993-2001?

How much money have we paid to the UN that regularly steals our clothes?

How many miles have we sailed to rescue the injured in natural disasters in nations that hate us?

Who else in the history of the world so loved their enemies like we have loved Germany and Japan?

I can’t even hear the din of your 20-year pew-parked butt just now.

Why have you such contempt for the nation you want to lead and for the scripture that is at the basis of the religion you claim to follow?

No man, much less any collection of men in any nation or government department can pass the test of the Beatitudes, but in all of world history who comes closest since Eden died? And why did that nation come closest but for the application of the very values you would banish from the public square lest they offend an atheist or a Muslim?

In that regard, you say:

This brings me to my second point. Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.

Does Al Sharpton’s Christianity remain silent on abortion, partial birth abortion or the killing of newborns that survive abortionist’s knives? What of Buddhists or Muslims? Jews? Are atheists glad or not that they survived the womb?

You, sir, need to read your Bible, and while you are at it, the inspiring history of a great land you seem to have never heard of:

The God bless version of America.

The one that John McCain, while employed by its Department of Defense, turned his other cheek for seven years of torture for. The McCain that evangelicals will embrace over you in droves come Election Day 2008, the only poll that matters.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report
Race 4 2008
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