Bothersome

A Confession:

This kind of thing is really starting to bother me.

Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare.

"Coweringly religious"?

Also this kind of thing:

...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...

Holy crap, people. Get hold of yourselves.

Also: Beware. This language is more dangerous than you believe it to be. I realize we've been told that the Rev. Mr. Wright spoke in the prophetic tradition; perhaps Obama learned the lingo from him.

Nevertheless, while it may appeal to some -- those "deeply spiritual" people who aren't "coweringly religious" -- there is a broader tradition that has quite a bit to say about those who falsely claim the right to speak as prophets.

And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

It would take not one minute's work to fit that verse to Obama: a false prophet, promising miracles, "going forth to the kings of the earth" and the "kings of the east" (without preconditions!) to gather them to battle by the drying Euphrates. With Iran developing nuclear weapons, many minds would find it no stretch to invoke "the great day of God Almighty." I place no faith in any human reading of the Revelation of St. John the Divine -- but beware, because you are asking for one.

You do not want what you are buying. If Obama is to be judged as a man, he should speak as a man. If he speaks as a prophet, it is on his own head if he is judged a false one.