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Apparently appealing to the large mass of his supporters that
are “Jesus Freaks”, Obama has hired a religion and politics teacher
from Wesley Theological Seminary to be his new Senior Adviser of
Religious Affairs. His plan would have gone off without a hitch —
if he hadn’t hired a man who holds himself to atheist ideals.

I would like to note that, by my definition, an atheist is
someone who casts God aside as a myth, sometimes calling religion a
carefully devised ruse designed by ancient governments, but calls
anyone who presents scientific evidence against global warming a
conspiracy theorist. Now would be an appropriate place for the
quintessential “pot and kettle” idiom, but the presence of the word
“black” in that saying could make my use of it a hate crime.
Whereas, when Alan Colmes uses that idiom, he is labeled as a
patriot — yes, I mean the Alan Colmes who regrets that the Star
Spangled Banner is our national anthem. His biggest problem with
the song is that pesky little line which describes America as “the
land of the free and the home of the brave”.

Shaun Casey has a long history of helping potential presidents
with their religion-related issues on the campaign trail. He has
advised both John Kerry and Howard Dean on their campaigns in the
past — you most likely remember the 2004 presidential candidates
who were Lutherans when visiting the Bible Belt, Jews in Florida
town-hall meetings, atheists in California, and Mormons while
campaigning in Utah. In fact, this wily campaign stratagem worked
so well for Kerry and Dean that Democratic Nominee Senator B.
Hussein Obama has finally decided to adopt the man behind it for
his own general election campaign: Shaun Casey.

Most would not see a problem with a presidential candidate
hiring a Religious Affairs Adviser. Actually, it’s a rather
intelligent campaign move. Since most people are of only one
religion, it is difficult for them to understand and react to the
beliefs of other religions.

But of course, as with any schema devised by the infamous B.
Hussein Obama, there’s a tiny little quandary Obama must have
merely overlooked: Shaun Casey, who claims to be an evangelical,
holds beliefs of an atheist (which is, actually, par for the course
for most liberals and Democrats).

In Faithful Democrats (an oxymoron at the least), Casey
said this:

“I am convinced Matthew included the flight to Egypt by Jesus
and his family to show that Jesus’ own story was part of the
ancient story of Israel. They, too, fled to Egypt, suffered
persecution, were redeemed by God, and then were empowered to live
lives in solidarity with sojourners and aliens wherever they
encountered them. Likewise disciples of Jesus throughout history
pick up the same ministry of solidarity with displaced people.
Jesus was an illegal alien and that ought to shape how we enter the
current debate. But too often political ideology clouds good
theology. In the current debate over immigration policy it
distresses me to no end that so many of my fellow church goers
ignore this fundamental tenet that should be central to our
identity. Instead as theological amnesiacs we insist on a secular
law and order ideology over a biblical mandate” (emphasis added).

Of course! Now everyone understands. Because Jesus was probably
an illegal alien, all illegal aliens are comparable to Jesus, so we
must be kinder to them and more understanding of them! Mr. Casey
has decoded the age-old political cipher. We must dig into this
topic a little more.

First of all, I am sure that Matthew “included the flight to
Egypt by Jesus and his family” because he knew illegal immigration
would be a problem a few millennia down the road (but I digress).

The main point that this sniffling, torpid politician is trying
to make is that Jesus was an illegal alien, and that should
contribute something to the hotly debated issue of illegal
immigration in the modern world.

Did Jesus smuggle drugs into Egypt? Did he steal the jobs of
real Egyptians and force those hard-working citizens into poverty,
foreclosure, and a life on the street?

Contrary to the belief of most Democrats, Jesus was a good
person. He helped people in between his passages across border
lines. He healed them of diseases of which the world of medicine
had no understanding. He turned water into wine. Jesus was a
living, breathing miracle worker, which outlines the basic
differences between him and the common illegal alien of today.

Illegal aliens have contributed nothing pleasant to America.
They do smuggle drugs, and they do steal the jobs
of bona fide Americans and force those hard-working citizens into
poverty, foreclosure, and a life on the street. But putting all of
the American hardships at the causation of border-hoppers aside, we
can now compare illegal aliens to Jesus, so they are irrefutably
angelic. Find one in your area, probably working the drive-thru at
Wendy’s, and give them a bear hug for everything they have done for you.

Based on the evidence, anyone smarter than the average sloth can
conclude that the alleged “fact” that Jesus was an illegal alien is
completely irrelevant to the modern border debate. So who is Mr.
Casey calling a “theological amnesiac”? He seems to be the person
who’s forgotten the fundamental Christian values.

But this isn’t the first time Mr. Casey has shown his carious
predilection for defending the malefactor. When the Reverend Wright
scandal surfaced, Casey appeared on Good Morning America.
He was asked by Chris Cuomo if B. Hussein Obama should distance
himself from Rev. Wright. Casey responded with a doltish attempt to
dodge the simple and concise question, which went something like
this: “I don’t think Senator Obama really has any more to say than
what you showed in that piece.” This doesn’t even make any sense.
B. Hussein Obama never appeared in the video showed on Good Morning
America, which did manage to show Rev. Jeremiah Wright G-damning
America in a vaguely disgraceful manner. Am I to understand, from
Mr. Casey’s statement, that Obama intended to say nothing more than
what Rev. Wright said?

Apparently not satisfied with Mr. Casey’s response, like myself,
Cuomo interrogated further. He asked if B. Hussein Obama was being
consistent with his campaign promises. “But is there a
responsibility as a candidate for president to associate yourself,
certainly as a spiritual advisor, with ideas that are consistent
with your campaign? Senator Obama said his campaign is about moving
away from divisive politics, from sniping and attacks. And then, to
say your spiritual advisor is a man who says America should be
damned? That it is to blame for 9-11? That Farrakhan deserves an
award for epitomizing greatness? Does that go together?”

Whenever liberals are confronted with dissension, such as
further questioning, they respond by playing the same equality card
most toddlers play with their parents (the subtle distinction: most
children realize that the equality card doesn’t work by age five).
Only with liberals, the argument is so much more…baseless. Mr.
Casey’s response was, “I mean, it’s interesting to me you haven’t
vetted Hillary Clinton’s pastor’s sermons, you haven’t vetted
President Bush’s pastor’s sermons. You haven’t vetted John McCain’s
pastor’s sermons. So, you’re not holding them to that standard,
which I think is very interesting.”

But, mom — you didn’t make Timmy clean his room. Did
President Bush’s pastor publicly call for the damning of America?
Did Hillary Clinton’s pastor do such? Or John McCain’s? Now
Johnny, Timmy didn’t make a mess in his room. You did. Now you have
to clean it up. B. Hussein Obama touted Rev. Wright as his
“spiritual advisor”; his “spiritual advisor” G-damned America. So
now Obama has to clean up the mess. Not Bush. Not Clinton. Not
McCain. Only B. Hussein Obama, and B. Hussein Obama only.

If liberals have proven anything with this pathetic rant about
Jesus being a border-hopper, it’s that we need to be harder on
illegal aliens then ever before. As in the case with Muslims who
think random killing sprees are holy, we can’t allow illegal aliens
to think that they’re doing what Jesus wants them to do (or, as we
now know from this week’s Hannity’s America, Mexican drug
smugglers would much rather carry out the will of the devil, Santa
Muerte). We need to give illegal immigrants two choices: we can
pick them up by their stolen blue collars and either (a) hang by
their thumbs in federal prisons for a time no less than the
remainder of their life, or (b) hurl them back across the border to
Mexico: where they came from, and where they belong.

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