Brilliant Jonah Goldberg column on the God that bleeds
Bookworm on Jul 31 2009 at 11:43 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
I looked through Jonah Goldberg’s latest, trying to find a single paragraph to quote here. The column is so perfect, though, it was likely ripping an arm off Michaelangelo’s David — it would just ruin the purity of the whole thing. So, instead, all I can urge you to do is go and read it.
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Obama is a prophet, a false prophet.
Now for our more Revealed Religion readers, I would like them to contemplate for a moment just exactly what religious texts says about false prophets.
There are god and there are gods: running for election is Dionysian, generating enthusiasm; running the government is Apollonian, requiring order. Apparently, this administration isn’t going to play the Apollo.
The expectations were pegged so unrealistically high that the letdown, and the sobering up, and the bitter recriminations, were bound to happen. I know people who said the long national nightmare is over, when Obama was elected; silly mortals, it’s only just begun.
Btw footnote here: that god that bleeds scene also occurs in the movie The Man Who Would Be King, based on the Kipling story, when Sean Connery as Danny Dravot is unmasked as the divine Iskander when he bleeds, and those who formerly worshiped him throw him off a precipice (and crucify Michael Caine in the bargain).
Lady Macbeth’s line with a voice over from POTUS:
The blood letting has just begun.
This is what happens when you send a boy to do a man’s job.
More “hope and change” or same old same old? I know what I think, he should just move the White House to Chicago. At some point, those who voted “O” must start catching on that Obama is spelled d-a-l-e-y.
Firing an Inspector General (WSJ)
This is a good quote. Love the Carrot Top reference.
I would have used small god in the headline.
“Has any other god taken one nation for himself by rescuing it from another by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, awesome power, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your very eyes. He showed you these things so you would realize that the LORD is God and that there is no other god.” -Deuteronomy 4:34-35
More reading for you… not sure which to put first…it’s a toss up which one is the statement and which one is the demonstration of the statement.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07312009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/sympathy_for_devils_182211.htm?&page=1
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/07/eric-holder-worst-attorney-general-in.html
Jonah Goldberg on Obama’s Presidency: He’s a God No More…
Jonah Goldberg has a piece that speaks the ultimate truth about Barack Obama and that is the veneer has worn off of the facade. Obama has been exposed for what……
Jonah Goldberg may be forgiven for his assurance, but his metaphor (the god who bleeds) runs into a reality problem. The core belief in Christianity is that God Himself became human — and bled — for those who had rebelled against Him.
So . . . while I understand what he’s getting at — man behind the curtain, feet of clay, etc. — that particular statement also has an additional — and more positive — meaning for me and other Christians than what he intended.