The Divine and/or Trinitarian status of Barack Obama
by Paul Gottfried
A serious difference of views has now surfaced in “movement conservative” circles, and I wish that some authoritative voice of the global democratic church would furnish me with the proper theological formulation. According to yesterday’s New York Post, “Barack Obama and the country itself stands on the shoulder of giants,” and the greatest of these giants is Martin Luther King, whose radiant greatness must be “measured not only in the tangible accomplishments of the civil rights movement but also in the hopes entrusted in America’s new young president.” Presumably this is what I have to believe in order to work at any fixture of the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6415 empire.
But now there is a theological complication. “Movement conservative” authority http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5413 in the perfection of American society, understood as an egalitarian experiment, and so he is accorded a higher rank than the positions bestowed on his co-deities. Was Kraut merely reacting to the sumptuous victuals and oily praise at the dinner George Will was asked to arrange? Perhaps he would have been as theologically lavish, had Lincoln or MLK done the same for him. Or is he trying to alter the permanent things in our American conservative treasure of truths?
There are already much admired public intellectuals who have weighed in on the side of the FOX creed. Last night, for example, I http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5971." As everyone should know, American conservatism teaches what is truly invariable. What is less certain is that all conservatives who are still in the movement cleave to the same Trinitarian dogma. Perhaps it is time to start throwing more people off the bus lest movement conservatives lapse into grievous error. But first we have to determine the true opinion to be upheld under threat of damnation. Is it the one given in the editorial in the NYP or the one that Krauthammer uttered as a FOX contributor?