Smith College Editor: 'Obama Is My Jesus'


It looks like the declaration by Louis Farrakhan that Barack Obama is the new Messiah, as you can see in this video, is not an isolated belief. It seems this bizarre theology of Obama worship has spread to our college campuses. In particular this belief in the sanctity of a certain sacred Chicago machine politician now seems to have devout acolytes in hallowed halls of Smith College, the nation's largest liberal arts college for women, located in Massachusetts. And the high priestess singing praises of The One is one Maggie Mertens, the associate editor of the Smith College student newspaper, the Sophian. Ms Mertens lays out her belief system in an article titled, "'I Will Follow Him': Obama As My Personal Jesus." And I will follow Maggie with a brief analysis of her "learned" treatise but first let us read the Annunciation of her personal savior (emphasis mine):

Obama is my homeboy. And I'm not saying that because he's black - I'm saying that in reference to those Urban Outfitters t-shirts from a couple years ago that said, "Jesus is my homeboy." Yes, I just said it. Obama is my Jesus.

You and Calypso Louie appear to share the same belief system.

While you may be overtly religious and find this to be idol-worshipping, or may be overtly politically correct and just know that everything in that sentence could be found offensive, I'm afraid it's true anyway.

Idol worshipping? Now where would we ever get that crazy idea.?

As with many spiritual enlightenments, mine came in the middle of a bleak, hopeless period of my life. The innocent, idealistic world of politics that had shaped my childhood, the one that taught me how the president is a good guy, one who makes you feel safe, gives a speech on TV every once in a while and one you'd feel honored to shake hands with, had been slowly whittled into a deep rooted cynicism to anything politically related.

The crush of the Bush victory over Gore was only the first mar on my previously consummate ideal of the American administration. And the tragedies just kept continuing: Bush's response to the Sept.11 attacks, the invasion of Iraq, the tax cuts for the rich, the downward spiral continued squashing my scant hope that the political world and state of our country could be saved.

And then the Lightworker came into your life. Hallelujah!

Then I found my miracle. Stumbling through my hopeless world, afraid to turn to anyone with my political questions of morality, my concerns about the afterlife of the country I called home, a voice spoke to me.

A voice from the wilderness of the Chicago streets.

Barack Obama bore to me his testimony in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention, a testimony that included believing in concepts as simple and wholesome as the Constitution; a belief the current administration had done away with entirely. I was 17 and my antipathy for politicians was already in place before I had even reached the age to legally vote for one. He, though, seemed different. I was intrigued. I would follow him. I believed however, that my discipleship would lead me on a much longer path to political change than was true. He was much too young, not white enough, not rich enough, not jaded - the country certainly wasn't ready for this, maybe in 12 or 16 years he would be able to run in the Democratic primary, I thought.

The Book of Barack as written by his devout disciple,  Saint Maggie of Smith College. But wait, there's more!

My interest was piqued, but the dark time lived on until my faith in others was renewed on Jan. 4 in the Iowa state primary. Obama had beat out squeaky clean southern boy John Edwards and former first lady and next in the line of political succession Hillary Clinton. I was in shock. And then I came to Jesus/Obama.

Before the advent of "Jesus/Obama" he had to beat out that "squeaky clean southern boy" who was a bit sidetracked by trips to his mistress in Beverly Hills Hilton rooms.

I donated to the campaign. I followed every primary with bated breath, and muttered my prayers to the political gods while proselytizing the miracle of my new prophet. I got a car magnet, I bought a t-shirt; a pin and bumper sticker are on their way to my campus mailbox. Then the media and right wing questioning began: what is he? A rock star, or the next president? Bono or Britney? The naysayers used his popularity among young people against him. Who had ever heard of political posters in college dorm rooms? Bumper stickers on the back of your high school neighbor's Jetta? Guess what those "Jesus is my homeboy" t-shirts were replaced with at Urban Outfitters? A smiling Obama under his own cutesy sayings like "Obama for yo Mama."

You got a car magnet, a t-shirt, and a bumper sticker. However, did you get your plastic Barack to stick up on the dashboard of your car?

I must admit, I questioned this myself. After all, would I have ever bought a t-shirt with Al Gore's face on it? Was this all he was, the newest pop culture fad? I questioned my newfound faith - was it all only a phase, like the time I thought I was Baptist in junior high? But my inner dogmatic struggle only helped cement my beliefs as I followed politics more closely than ever before. Obama's mere presence, knowledge and enthusiasm in the political realm inspired my own desire to understand what exactly had gone wrong, what exactly he could do to remedy the mess we'd made.

It looks like you replaced your junior high Baptist faith with the one true Barack faith.

Then I began to realize I wasn't the only one trying to buy a WWOD bracelet and spending my weekends scouring CNN.com. The rock star-type love for Obama wasn't just because he was pretty and in the media. Others too, had seen him as a shining light, heard that mythical voice boom out over the mountaintops; people were wearing the t-shirt because they would rather wear something representing a politician than a pop star. People everywhere, young and old, were caring again. So what's the problem here?

What's the problem here? Like breaking the second commandment warning against worshipping false idols? Just slap on your WWOD (What Would Obama Do) bracelet and set your mind at ease.

I've officially been saved, and soon, whether they like it or not, the rest of the country will be too. I will follow him, all the way to the White House, and I'll be standing there in our nation's capital in January 2009, when Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States of America. In the name of Obama, Amen.

Saved, "whether they like it or not." That sounds like a threat to me. What will you do, Maggie? Burn non-believers in your holy Barack at the Democrat party stake for being heretics? 

A lot of the the commenters to this article were hoping that this was just satire by Maggie Mertens. Your humble correspondent knows satire and this was definitely not satire. Mertens was serious although, after the richly deserved mocking she is sure to receive over her belief in Barack, she might try to squirm out of it by pulling a Sheryl Crow. IOW, she might claim she was really just joking as Crow claimed after she was widely ridiculed by claiming we could fight global warming by using just one square of toilet paper per sitting. Crow was serious and so is Maggie Mertens in proclaiming Barack Obama as her savior. And I suspect this belief is quite widespread beyond Smith College and the Calypso Louie crowd. Just take a look at the many images promoted by the mainstream media of Obama with a shining halo surrounding his sacred skull.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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Saved, "whether they like

Saved, "whether they like it or not." That sounds like a threat to me.
What will you do, Maggie? Burn non-believers in your holy Barack at the
Democrat party stake for being heretics?

Not far off, PJ! 

Maybe not burning at the stake, but forced to participate in the Obama's solutions..(.universal health non-care, redistribution of wealth, taxes imposed "for fairness," forced conservation of energy etc) by law, with "appropriate" punishment for non-compliance.

Liberals and 'fairness'

What's humorous is how the liberal definition of 'fairness' doesn't include anyone outside of their belief system.

Oh, and this whole thing about Obama being the Messiah is just plain SICK.

PALIN/McCain 2008

I agree...and this woman

I agree...and this woman sounds like she's drifting  into Jim Jones territory.

 

I thought this was a colossal joke as well

This is actually quite frightening.

There are a lot of stories out there where people actually look at Obama as more of a deity than a typical politician.

And I have yet to hear him counter it.

He won't.  He's too happy

He won't.  He's too happy to be "riding the wave" as he himself puts it.

Sure he countered it. At

Sure he countered it. At the Dimmocrit Convention in Demver he said that the election was never about him, but about us.

If it was ever about us, why is he supposedly winning?

 

At some point, with enough heat, all sand turns to glass - My dad

Respect

I have much more respect for the good professor and Louis Farrakhan than the MSM.

The difference is that Maggie and Louis are being honest about the object of their worship.

We have now seen most of the nightmarish actions of Nazi Germany, in its 1930's organizing ceremonies, acted out in spades except for a few that will only come following an Obama election.

I hope, when and if that happens, that the American electorate will be proud of what they have done to my country. I NEVER thought I would live to witness such a nightmare. With God's guiding hand, we may be spared the experience.

I am again reminded of many of the prophets warnings prior to the fall and captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel, then Judah and then Jerusalem. Then the words of Billy Graham when he said that if God does not judge America, then he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

I hope that this is not the judgement that he spoke of.

Maggie Mertens

I would love to see Maggie Mertens appear on O'Reilly or Hannity to discuss her Obama belief. She was NOT kidding.

Okay, yeah yeah, she's a

Okay, yeah yeah, she's a nut-job and it seems most who read her column know it. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but it happens.

Moving along, I found much more fulfillment reading the comments. And this absolute gem:

"Obama organized corruptness with Acorn,and our Lord was crucified by community orgainizers, the zealous realigous leaders."

OMG!!! That is way more true than the left's "Jesus was a communtiy organizer." The "Jewish elders" that lobbied for Christ's death were nothing if not "community organizers!" And, since the Obama camp brought up the connection originally, they can't legitimately argue with it now! 

Wow! I can't wait to beat them over the head with this!

 

The Democrat Party: Creating, Defending and Using Slavery, Jim Crow and Segregation for Over 150 Years... and Counting. 

McCain = Dole

Wow! I can't wait to beat them over the head with this! 

Yeah, this could make a funny commercial for McCain. But he won't. He'd rather lose gracefully than win bitterly. (I borrowed that line) 

PALIN/McCain 2008

Sarge,

Oh, I'm not waiting for McCain to do something with it. Frankly, I don't think he could without getting flamed.

But us? That's another story.

Gotta go change my tag-line, excuse me...   ;^)

 

The Democrat Party: Creating, Defending and Using Slavery, Jim Crow and Segregation for Over 150 Years... and Counting. 

Dont know if this has been posted

Here is another show of open minded and tolerant liberals.Gee the messiah really has had a influence over them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQalRPQ8stI

Sheeple

I live outside a college town that is home to a mid-size state university. The article highlighted here is not a surprise. Most college students are mind-numbed robots about Barack Obama. It frightens me and not for the same reasons it frightens most conservatives, although it bothers me on a lot of different levels.

College aged people place religious like devotion to Obama, and I've never seen anything like it, but I don't fear a socialist sweep or a powerful left wing president riding a mandate from the voters. What I fear is when these college students graduate from college and discover that the world is tough and that the man with whom they've placed so much hope and trust turns out to be a false messiah. How are they going to react?

When I talk to these people I cannot fathom just what they want Obama to change in the government and in their lives. I'm afraid that they expect him to change every fiber of the lives of Americans. I always ask them if they really want a president that powerful. What really frightens me is that these people want a president with that kind of power.

Americans, especially young ones, do not cherish freedom. They want security. They want a government set to strike out against anything to which they are opposed.

I laugh at them. If they're not wearing an Obama t-shirt or a Che' Guevara shirt, they sport books with wide thinking slogans on them. I see them wearing shirts that say "Open Books Open Minds" t-shirts, and they walk around with minds so tightly shut that they are at no risk of losing the air inside.

I fear Obama's followers far more than him. He is just a man. He is not a savior. His followers have the potential to be a mob, and he is setting an unrealistic standard to please them.

Americans have become strange to me. They give away their freedom for what they perceive to be security. 

As it is written, so shall it be...

Revelation chapter 13:5-10

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty‑two months. He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them.
And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and
nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast–

all whose names
have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that
was slain from the creation of the world.

He who has an ear, let him hear.

if anyone is to go into captivity,

into captivity he will go.

If anyone is to be killed with the sword,

with the sword he will be killed.

 

You want change? Give me a dollar.

I wonder if the high priest

I wonder if the high priest of Atheism, Bill Maher, is bothered by this Obama worship stuff....

I doubt it because, despite what Maher claims and what his 'movie' is about, he is not against religion, he is very religious; it's just that the 'god' of his religion is himself, or Man in general. 

This is why people who fear those who believe in God and read the Bible etc. (the rigid religious right) and fear the establishment of a Theocracy, have no problem submitting their will to political messiahs like Obama, or Clinton or the Kennedys....the Left is very very religious.

(BTW - it's not religion that God wants, it faith)

The crush of the Bush

The crush of the Bush victory over Gore was only the first mar on my previously consummate ideal of the American administration. And the tragedies just kept continuing: Bush's response to the Sept.11 attacks, the invasion of Iraq, the tax cuts for the rich, the downward spiral continued squashing my scant hope that the political world and state of our country could be saved

Seems she believes the public at large cannot choose a President from here
Bush crushing Gore comment.  And we are not supposed to protect the USA or make taxes smaller.  I think anyone who repeats this mantra "the tax cuts for the rich" is stupid as it was a tax cut for all.

If she ever gets a real job in thoutside then she may have some epiphany about real capitalism.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Dan,

"If she ever gets a real job in the outside then she may have some epiphany about real capitalism."

Well, being she's associate editor, she's probably aiming for journalism. For which she seems supremely qualified, under the current guidelines.

Now, we can debate whether that's a "real job," but I refuse to take the "pro" side of that one!  ;^)

 

Jesus Christ was crucified by "community organizers."

Well, she's clearly ignorant of the political process

<i>my faith in others was renewed on Jan. 4 in the Iowa state primary.</i>

 It's not like anyone in the MSM was chanting "Iowa caucus" over and over for twelve months leading up to the main event.

You see Maggie Dear.....

It's comments like this  
"I've officially been saved, and soon, whether they like it or not, the rest of the country will be too."

that have people like me driving out to my local Walmart to load up on ammo! I do hope that you do come to your senses someday before it's too late. 

 

 

No way! No how! Nobama! Keep the change! ...Sen. Clinton

No big surprise there

"Obama is my Jesus"

That is what we will be dealing with from these idiots.

"Simonism" (the worship of false messiahs based upon their facile magic tricks as per the false "St Simon") used to be a crime punishable by excommunication in the old Catholic Church.

We now call it "Idol Worship" but whereas most conservative Christians think of it as a sin it dominates our pop culture.

Our Hollywood celebrities, both the talented and untalented alike, are worshiped as "gods".

We even have a popular show called "American Idol" wherein the least sour singing pre packaged insta-star becomes a god in the course of 13 weeks.

In the context of our empty culture why shouldn't some crazed Obamanite make such a claim?

Now of course that does allow for some counter claims.

Evangelical Christians may be tempted to answer with:

"Obama is the Anti Christ!"

He certainly fulfills enough of the prophecies in order to qualify for such a title.   

Those of us with a more political edge to our rhetoric may be tempted to go with:

"Obama is our Hitler" 

Now as much as I enjoy saying that I realize that Obama is nothing like Hitler:

Hilter won the Iron Cross 3 times during WWI

Hitler faced true adversity. He was a homeless man before WWI and a political prisoner in the 1920's

Hitler also had recognizable talent as an architect whereas Barack Obama has no recognizable talents beyond his orator's gift, something he DOES have in common with Hitler.

So perhaps Hitler is simply too accomplished to be compared to Obama.

Well then how about this bumper sticker:

"Obama is an empty suit"

Now we are at the truth. Never has so mch hype been given to someone with so little to offer.

Jesus is said to have walked on water, brought the dead back to life, turned one loaf and one tilapia into a feast that fed 4,000 people, turned water into wine (my personal favorite) and of course the biggie, resurrected himself aftrer dying for the sins of the world.

Either you believe thse things or you don't but that is the pre-qualification for the title "Messiah".

Obama hasn't even performed the miracle of "Full Medical Disclosure", or the miracle of the "Presentation of His Birth Certificate" or the particularly astounding miracle of "Producing The Lord's College Transcripts".

When and if he does you can bet his flock will sing:

"...And He shall reign forever and ever"

While they attempt to change the constitution in order to declare him president for life.

 

Mex... Simply put, Obama

Mex...

Simply put, Obama is dangerous! Why Obama Scares The Crap Out Of Me 

 

 

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These are the same people

These are the same people that have written things like...“If Obama loses, we won’t cry. We’ll let our voices be known. New York will burn.” 

Never, ever trust a liberal.

Why Obama Scares The Crap Out Of Me

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

"I will Follow Him"

Does "Little Peggy March" receive a 'royalty' for this?

If you've ever wondered why people will fall for the Antichrist

...and be so easily deceived, just take a hard look at what is going on around you today, particularly at the way people are falling all over themselves for Obama. 

Scared yet?  You should be.

-Dave

Barrack Hussein Obama must be defeated.

Word of God, speak...

" Jesus answered, Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, claiming 'I am the Messiah' and will deceive many." Matthew 24: 4-5

Words written over 2000 years ago - now they're coming alive more than ever!

What's even more unnerving about Osama Bama is that he is saying absolutely nothing to rebuke, correct or condemn this adulation being heaped upon him - all the while claiming to be a born-again Christian! 

Sorry, BHO - you can't have it both ways!

Makes you really wonder, doesn't it? Obamessiah will become Obamunism if he is elected!

"Don't crush that dwarf! Hand me the pliers!" - Firesign Theatre

I suggest----

I suggest---this time , we start with the crucifixion and work backwards.

Smith College has failed to teach you..

'Obama had beat out squeaky clean southern boy John Edwards and former first lady and next in the line of political succession Hillary Clinton. 

Uh, Maggie? You're not too bright a j'lism student are you??

1.  John Edwards wasn't squeaky clean at all and the higher up dems (& MSM) damn well knew it!

2.  The DNC with Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi stole the nomination from Hillary. 

John Edwards? Squeaky clean?

If that's the case then I have some prime real estate at the base of Mt. St. Helens I'll sell ya!

"Don't crush that dwarf! Hand me the pliers!" - Firesign Theatre

The Birth Of Obama?

 I can't wait for someone to write about "The One" being born in a manger in Hawaii.  We'll sing Obama Carols, Have an Obama tree, and open Obama presents.  We can even use his fake presidential seal as a wreath.  Oh Joy!

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

I don't really see the

I don't really see the humor in people actually thinking that Obama is the Savior. I don't believe he died on the cross,  rose again in three days and sits at the right hand of God. To me it mocks God and I don't think He takes that kindly. :-)

Is it humor or irony?

     I don't know if you can call it humor or irony but you notice how it's OK for liberals to consider Obama the Messiah but it's insulting when conservatives call him "the one". 

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

Sure, I get your point. No

Sure, I get your point. No offense toward you at all. Sorry if you took that way.

mizflame98, I would preferred Obama being born in a manger...

...somewhere in Nairobi.

It would have worked out better for us.  :-)

-Dave

Barrack Hussein Obama must be defeated.

And Michelle

and Michelle can bring the obamanuts..  

Barak 0bama - Afraction American

There are a growing number

There are a growing number of people who have come to believe that Obama was (a) not born in Hawaii and (b) is not even a US citizen, much less a natural born citizen..

 

Oh good...now I have reason

Oh good...now I have reason to feel more outrage and anger.

God help this country...we are going to need it.

You say you want a Revolution....in the words of the Beatles I think it was...just those words are coming back to me, just those words, and they wouldn't be meant in the way the lovely Beatles meant them.

...this keeps up...and something is eventually have to give.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

»→ Obama's Nativity

Now the birth of the Obama child was on this wise.  In the fourth year of the evil King Nixon a decree was sent out that all, both small and great should engage in lewd acts and drug use.

So Barack the elder, together with his soon to be estranged wife, in Kenya who was with child, was visited in a dream by an Anglo who said unto him;

Thou art a loser, but unto you is born an imposter who shall deceive many.

So Barack the elder, together with his soon to be estranged wife, who was with child, attempted to board a flight to Hawaii.  But alas there was no room on the plane for the obviously rotund Ann.

Underdog & Pitbull 08

Obama @ 7

And at age 7 his parents took him to visit the State Legislature, and when they began travelleing home,they noticed he was not with them.  Returning to capital, they found him there, amazing the Liberal legislators with his Marxisim.  He asked his worried parents "Didn't you know I would be in my father's house speaking words of freedom for the workers?"

Obama @7

And his mother and father wist not what he meant, but Ann, the daughter of a typical white person, kept these things in her heart.

Underdog & Pitbull 08

 Get to the part where

 Get to the part where "the one" is in the wilderness of Chicago.

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

Obama Tempted

And after Uhbama had not smoked weed for 40 days and 40 nights he was asked "would you like to rob someone and turn their bread into a chance to get stoned?", and he agreed.

Later he stumbled on the street, but was picked up by the Police, and asked if he was sober he replied "You shalt not put the one to the (sobriety) test"

And still later he was offerered political power in return for loyalty to Daley's Machine, and he accepted.

And following this, he was ministered to by ACORN, and his new friend Ayers.

Wait a Minute!!!

 Rev. Wright has to fit in somewhere.

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

That comes later in the

That comes later in the narative.

First the one has to turn happiness into whine . . . 

 

Governor Palin - She is the Real Deal !

LMAO!!!

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

Free

FUNNY!!!!

happiness into whine.  HaHaHahahah!!

Apparently The One was

Apparently The One was tempted by a woman named Vera Baker  so the pharisees sent her away to a deserted isle of sandy shores.

 

TN

TN MOM...

...LMAO!

...that was a perfect bulls-eye! 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Bigtimer

i do what i can....

 

Cool... And this is where

Cool...

And this is where he got his training...Why Obama Scares The Crap Out Of Me

 

 

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Did any of you see the Sean Hannity Special on Obama?

 If you missed it you can catch it here.  It's a must see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HZMD97nMw

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

Hey miz... I caught most

Hey miz...

I caught most of it...was interrupted though so very glad you have the link here for me and others.

It was well done and a must see.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

 I'm watching part 4 right

 I'm watching part 4 right now.  This stuff is incredible!

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

mizflame

I missed it. THANKS for the link!

Not a problem.

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

Sean Hannity Special on obama

the Sean Hannity Special on obama is must-see t.v., (you-tube).

Very, very suspicious that obama refuses to release ANY info about his college years!!! 

 

Grab your popcorn....

TN Mom... You might want

TN Mom...

You might want to also check out...Why Obama Scares The Crap Out Of Me it takes the same basic issues as Sean did, but done differently. There are things in it that cover more of the bases. Obama should NOT be trusted to be the leader of the free world. If he wins he will go out of office as the leader of another Socialist/Communist country, the USA!

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

Clear

I'm linking now...and scared crapless.

thanks for the link!

 

Hi TN... Just as a

Hi TN...

Just as a suggestion..pass that on to others too on your email list that you think should know all of this.

It is a wealth of eye-opening information... I did yesterday.

Just a thought.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

bigtimer

GREAT idea!  I have it bookmarked.

Barack Obama has his own AXIS OF EVIL!!!!!!!!!