Come let us bow down and worship

Have you seen this site? Take a look and then come back and tell me if you find it even a teeny bit unnerving.

It looks like the media was only momentarily set back by the Saturday Night Live skits and they’re right back at deifying Obama. Some of the quotes from this site are positively creepy.

“… a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany … and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama” – Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire. January 7, 2008. …

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What he is offering is an agreement between struggles and a covenant for perfection, in that nothing is impossible if one begins with hope and the assurance of faith

What he is offering is a contract between the old and the young, black and white, citizens and immigrants, rich and poor, priviledged and the impoverished

What he is offering is beyond what we think could happen, it is what will happen someday, though the opportunity is one that we can grasp …

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Obama’s myth is a tried-and-true one. The late folklorist Joseph Campbell called it “the hero’s journey,” and it’s found in every culture, from Moses, David and Odysseus to Luke Skywalker, Frodo and Harry Potter. …

At the end of the journey, armed with enhanced power and self-knowledge, the hero returns home and saves the world.

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The Obama campaign uses a religious calling as its central rhetorical trope: “I’m asking you to believe,” reads the banner across the top of barackobama.com. His appeal to voters is an archetype of religious conversion: instead of being asked for support, Americans are exhorted to “join the movement”.

In Georgia, he directly equated his supporters with God’s people: “God had a plan for his people. He told them to stand together and march together around the city… and when the horn sounded and a chorus of voices cried out together, the mighty walls of Jericho came tumbling down.”

Later in the speech, he asked the congregation to “walk with me, march with me… and if enough of our voices join together, we can bring those walls tumbling down.”

Obama has created the impression that Clinton supporters, like the Pharisees in the temple, are obstacles to change: “I want to speak directly to all those Americans who have yet to join this movement but still hunger for change. They know it in their gut… But they’re afraid. They’ve been taught to be cynical.”

It’s not an argument for better government; it’s an exhortation to see the light. It’s not a plan for the Presidency, but a leap of faith.

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Biblical hope is similar. Like Obamian hope, it speaks to the matter of the future being pulled into the present in the Kingdom of God. In a real sense, the Kingdom of God respects but moves beyond the past and, in the present, it realises the future, in a preliminary sense. Biblical hope also, in a sense, propels the one in whom it is found toward the future consummation of this kingdom. Like Obamian hope, biblical hope knows that the present is just a platform on which the future is being built and experienced. This is powerful.

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“Even in the conversations we have as colleagues, there is a sense of trying especially hard not to drink the Kool-Aid,” Mr. Cowan added. “It’s so rapturous, everything around him. All these huge rallies.”

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My musician friends and I are writing songs to inspire people and couples all over America are making love again and shouting “yes we can” as they climax!

Like I said, these people are positively creepy. I understand that the last quote was taken from the Huffington Post, so you can expect it to be waaaay off the wall. But do Obama supporters think about ol’ Barry and his campaign while they’re in bed with their spouse/significant other? Are you people really that twisted? Are you really that lonely? Are your lives really that bereft of meaning that you need that to keep yourselves aroused?

Some of the photos on the site are even more revealing of what is going through the media’s mind. These are not accidents, magazine and newspaper designers don’t sell millions by just tossing any old photo into the mix and hoping that it turns out ok. This picture was clearly a deliberate attempt to present Obama as some sort of guiding light, a demi-god, with people massing at his feet and gazing lovingly into his shining face.

Via obamamessiah.blogspot.com. Originally published in New York Mag April 16, 2007 photo by Michael Edwards

Now consider an artist’s representation of the original

Via St. Peter the Apostile Catholic Diocese for Chaldeans and Assyrians USA

This is insane people. You need to stop it.