Originally Posted September 2014 — Updated After OG Post
Someone on my YOUTUBE (BTW, I removed all comments years ago as that was a trigger point for YouTube censors) jokingly or sarcastically said: “Obama Killed Jesus.” (More at Is Barack Obama the Messiah?)
He is provocative in insisting on an outstretched hand, where others only see animosity.
His tangible results in the short time that he has been active – are few and far between. His greatest results have been created with words and speeches – words that remain in the consciousness of their audience and have long-term effects.
He comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions.
And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated – – but rather the President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama. […]
If such a comparison were to be made, it would, of course, inevitably be to Obama’s advantage.
Today, his historic Health Reform is being passed through the American Senate – a welfare policy breakthrough that several of his predecessors have been unable to manage. […]
On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few.
Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today’s domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good chances of expanding considerably in coming years.
Source: “Obama greater than Jesus” Politiken Editorial [Denmark] December 29, 2009.
Which I responded to thus:
He did in a sense that he and many others sit in a pew for twenty years that teach a post-modern culturally Marxist Jesus… with sermons sold in the church’s bookstore (the entire twenty years Obama attended) by Farrakhan. Remember, he is the guy who said was taken up in a UFO and told by Jesus and Elijah Muhammad that he was the little messiah. He sermonized ideas like Yakub (the crazy scientist) creating the white man [aka, the Devil] on the island of Cypruss 6,600 years ago. That blacks alone are the true Jewish descendant and that white’s are lying who say they are Jewish. Books in that same church book store that said this:
“It is dangerous because the true prophet of the gospel of God must become both ‘anti-Christian’ and ‘unpatriotic.’ (55) …. Because whiteness by its very nature is against blackness, the black prophet is a prophet of national doom. He proclaims the end of the ‘American Way…‘” (56) “… it is that whites are incapable of making any valid judgment about human existence. The goal of black theology is the destruction of everything white, so that blacks can be liberated from alien gods. The God of black liberation will not be confused with a blood’ thirsty white idol. Black theology must show that the black God has nothing to do with the God worshiped in white churches whose primary purpose is to sanctify the racism of whites and to daub the wounds of blacks. Putting new wine in new wineskins means that the black theology view of God has nothing in common with those who prayed for an American victory in Vietnam or who pray for a “cool” summer in the ghetto…. There is no place in black theology for a colorless God in a society where human beings suffer precisely because of their color. The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. Either God is identified with the oppressed to the point that their experience becomes God’s experience, or God is a God of racism…. Because God has made the goal of blacks God’s own goal, black theology believes that it is not only appropriate but necessary to begin the doctrine of God with an insistence on God’s blackness.” (62-63)
Contrasting evil theologies/ideologies
“The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.” — Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
- The goal of black theology is the destruction of everything white, so that blacks can be liberated from alien gods. (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — A Black Theology of Liberation, James Cone, p.62
- White religionists are not capable of perceiving the blackness of God, because their satanic whiteness is a denial of the very essence of divinity. That is why whites are finding and will continue to find the black experience a disturbing reality. (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — A Black Theology of Liberation, James Cone, p.64
“I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” — Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
- There is no place in black theology for a colorless God in a society where human beings suffer precisely because of their color. The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — A Black Theology of Liberation, James Cone, p.63
- Christianity is not alien to Black Power, Christianity is Black Power. (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — Black Theology & Black Power, James Cone, p.38
- In contrast to this racist view of God, black theology proclaims God’s blackness. Those who want to know who God is and what God is doing must know who black persons are and what they are doing. (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — A Black Theology of Liberation, James Cone, p.65
“The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!” ~ Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
- These new theologians of the “Third World” argue that Christians [liberation theology accepting Christians] should not shun violence but should initiate it… (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — Black Theology & Black Power, James Cone, p.32
- It is important to make a further distinction here among black hatred, black racism, and Black Power. Black hatred is the black man’s strong aversion to white society. No black man living in white America can escape it. (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — Black Theology & Black Power, James Cone, p.14
- It is this fact that makes all white churches anti-Christian in their essence. To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people! (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — Black Theology & Black Power, James Cone, p.151
- It [black liberation theology] is dangerous because the true prophet of the gospel of God must become both “anti-Christian” and “unpatriotic.”…. Because whiteness by its very nature is against blackness, the black prophet is a prophet of national doom. He proclaims the end of the “American Way,”… (Book from Obama’s Church’s bookstore) — A Black Theology of Liberation, James Cone, p.55-56
While reading these books cover-to-cover I also noted that Louise Farrakhan was given a lifetime achievement award at Obama’s church. Not only that though, but Farrakhan was given three cover spreads on the church’s magazine, the Trumpet. One of those his face shot put alongside Obama as well as Elijah Muhammad, the second leader of the Nation of Islam. His [Elijah Muhammad’s] many books are sold by the Nation of Islam not to mention being taught by Louise Farrakhan as theological doctrine. Since Obama’s church gave such a prestigious award to the current leader of the Nation of Islam, whom Obama’s pastor was a part of in his younger years, let us see what some of these books they tout say as well:
It is due to your ignorance of God, or you are one deceived by the devil, whose nature is to mislead you in the knowledge of God. You originally came from the God of Righteousness and have the opportunity to return, while the devils are from the man devil (Yakub) who has ruled the world for the past 6,000 years under falsehood, labeled under the name of God and His prophets.
So Obama did kill Jesus in one sense…but so do millions of adherents to cults.
As an aside, the “Hope Poster” which was used by the Obama campaign was a bit “messianic” in my mind.
Trumped Update ! (4-17-2026)
This update revolves around this [now removed] TRUTH post by our President, of which a cyber friend said:
- I love most of Trump’s policies, but this is the epitome of “Bad Trump!” I condemn this stupidity!
Now here are a couple “reprints” from I can support via THE BAPTIST INSTITUTE:
Remember, the press made Obama seem “Messianic” in trying to give the idea that Obama was “mainstream” in his religious view:
And this revealing short article by the TRINITY FORUM (December 2013):
In an interview Barbara Walters did with CNN’s Piers Morgan, this exchange took place:
MORGAN: You have interviewed every president of my lifetime. Why is Obama facing so much opposition now? Why is he struggling so much to really fulfill the great flame of ambition and excitement that he was elected on originally in 2009?
WALTERS: Well, you’ve touched on it to a degree. He made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be – I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime, but – the next messiah. And the whole ObamaCare, or whatever you want to call it, the Affordable Health Act, it just hasn’t worked for him, and he’s stumbled around on it, and people feel very disappointed because they expected more.
Ms. Walters is right to say it might not be quite appropriate to say around Christmastime that Mr. Obama had been widely thought to be “the next messiah,” though I’d recommend that be expanded to include anytime, not just Christmastime.
What’s revealing, of course, is that Ms. Walters ever thought that is what Obama would be. And note the use of the pronoun “we”–as if we, all of us, had messianic expectations for Mr. Obama. Actually, many of us did not, though I think it’s fair to say some of Ms. Walters’ colleagues in the media and other members of the political class did.
To appreciate the hagiography once surrounding Mr. Obama, it’s worth going beyond the thrill he sent up the leg of Chris Matthews. Consider as well that the historian Garry Wills favorably compared Obama’s 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech, on the issue of race and his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, to Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 Cooper Union speech. In the Nation magazine Tom Hayden, Barbara Ehrenrich, Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Danny Glover wrote that Obama’s address on race “was as great a speech as ever given by a presidential candidate, revealing a philosophical depth, personal authenticity, and political intelligence that should convince any but the hardest of ideologues that he carries unmatched leadership potentials for overcoming the divide-and-conquer tactics that have sundered Americans since the first slaves arrived here in chains.”
Immediately after his election, on the November 7, 2008 broadcast of PBS’s Charlie Rose, the historian Alan Brinkley said, “I don’t think we’ve had a president since Lincoln who has the oratorical skills that Obama has. Obama has that quality that Lincoln had.” David Remnick of the New Yorker also compared Obama’s rhetorical skills to Lincoln. (It got to the point that Remnick had to say, “We’ll climb out of the tank soon.”) Nor should we forget when in 2009 presidential historian Michael Beschloss said of Obama: “He’s probably the smartest guy ever to become President.” ……
See more in a few articles:
- Religion and Politics ’08: Barack Obama (PEW RESEARCH)
- ‘Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus’ (WORLD NET DAILY covering Dutch paper article)
- Messianic rhetoric infuses Obama rallies (POLITICO)
This next article is from THE CHRISTIAN POST, and the reason I reproduce it here is due to the ads and the sectioned portions of the post. But one should visit the POST’s stuff!
4 times Barack Obama likened to Jesus, the Messiah: ‘This is the New Testament’
- ‘The Truth’
In 2009, artist Michael D’Antuono sought to display a painting called “The Truth” in New York City’s Union Square to celebrate the 100th day of Obama’s presidency. The painting portrayed Obama in front of the presidential seal with his arms in a V-shape and a crown of thorns on his head, in the position that Jesus Christ was in when he was crucified on Good Friday.
Backlash forced D’Antuono to cancel his planned event in Union Square. Responding to the outcry over his depiction of Obama, D’Antuono stated through a publicist that “The religious reference was used metaphorically and not to insult anyone’s religious beliefs.”
“If that is the effect that my art has had on anyone, I am truly sorry,” the statement added. Three years later, around the time of Obama’s re-election, “The Truth” was displayed at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of an exhibit titled “Artists on the Stump: The Road to the White House 2012.”
D’Antuono addressed the controversy over his painting three years earlier, telling Fox News that “I always regretted canceling my exhibit in New York because I feel my First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings.” He attributed the cancellation of his exhibit to the “religious right’s extreme outrage.”
“Interpreting the political piece as blasphemy, they planned protests and wrote thousands of letters demanding the show be canceled,” he added.
- ‘Blessing’
According to Calisphere, which describes itself as a “gateway to digital collections from California’s great libraries, archives, and museums,” “Blessing” was a papier-mâché statue of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama displayed at a gallery in downtown Chicago, Illinois, in 2007. Created by David Cordero, an undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the time, the statue depicts Obama in a white robe with a red shawl over his shirt and tie, and his head surrounded by a glowing halo.
While the Obama campaign tried to distance itself from the sculpture and insisted that the then-U.S. senator “isn’t a fan of art that offends religious sensibilities,” Cordero denied that he was attempting to portray Obama as a God-like figure. Instead, he maintained the purpose of his art was to stress the importance of taking “caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped.”
- Obama for Messiah images
The website Obama for Messiah ’08 was created to “poke a little fun at those who seem to be waiting for Christ to abdicate his throne to Senator Barack Obama.” Although designed as a medium for satirical posters depicting Obama as a religious figure, the website contains multiple quotes from public figures likening Obama to a religious figure.
One image on the website features Obama wearing a robe emblazoned in red, white and blue, accompanied by the caption: “Walks on water but still needs your vote.” Another image shows Obama wearing a robe with his hand up in the air, along with text reading “heals the lame and promises health care.”
The third image on the site shows Obama making a thumbs up while his other hand is extended out along with text reading “taxes the wealthy and redeems our sins.” The fourth image is designed to emulate the Black Madonna painting of Mary and Jesus and features a woman holding Obama alongside text reading, “She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel.”
- “This guy was president before I was . . . This guy was God before I was.”– Barack Obama -in reference to Morgan Freeman’s portrayal in “Deep Impact and “Bruce Almighty”
- “This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament.” . . .”I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event.”— Chris Matthews
- “Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.”— Ezra Klein
- “I would characterize the Senate race as being a race where Obama was, let’s say, blessed and highly favored. That’s not routine. There’s something else going on. I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered. . . . I know that that was God’s plan.”– Bill Rush
- “I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. … The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.” — Jesse Jackson Jr.
- ‘The next Messiah,’ ‘triumph of word over flesh,’ fulfillment of ‘the New Testament’
Portrayal of Obama as a Christ-like figure wasn’t limited to artwork. As highlighted on the website Obama for Messiah ’08, liberal figures in politics and the media did not hesitate to invoke biblical comparisons when talking about Obama. In a 2008 column written for The American Prospect, liberal commentator Ezra Klein wrote, “He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair.”
In a 2013 interview on CNN, longtime journalist Barbara Walters acknowledged that many thought that he was going to be “the next Messiah.” During the Democratic presidential primary season in 2008, MSNBC host Chris Matthews described Obama as “bigger than [former President John F.] Kennedy.”
“[Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising,” he said.















































