Posted by
JP on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:54:29 PM
by John Mark Reynolds [author,
academic]
Some
people pick churches the way they pick clothing: based on personal
comfort and style. Other people select their religious home for bad
reasons: they hope to gain some personal or political advantage from it.
It
is difficult to understand how Senator Obama could attend a church for
twenty years, defend it in one of the most eloquent speeches I have
heard, and then suddenly have an epiphany, in the heat of a political
campaign, about the nature of the place where he trusted his own and
his children’s spiritual well being. If God appeared to the Senator on
the Road to Denver, then miracles still do happen, but this miracle
happened very conveniently for the Senator’s ambitions.
Perhaps Senator Obama is not made of the stuff from which martyrs are made, but if so it is very sad. [more]