Street Market, Kiev, Ukraine, September 10, 2011

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Can You Say "AntiChrist"?

Video of the students' performance shows them singing songs overflowing with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," repeatedly chanting the president's name and celebrating his accomplishments, including his "great plans" to "make this country's economy No. 1 again."

One song that the children were taught directly quotes from the spiritual "Jesus Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced with Obama's: "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama."

Obama Song Videotaped Without Authorization, N.J. School Official Says

No, I am not accusing President Obama of being THE AntiChrist (with a capital A). However, I am reminded of John's words in I John 2:18, 19 "Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

When a man (or woman, for that matter) is put on a pedestal and worshipped, he (she) becomes an antiChrist.

I had a very strong reaction the first time I read of this song being sung by children in a school. That a teacher would use a Christian song, a song teaching about Jesus Christ and change it to singing about Barack Hussein Obama - who is more at fault here? The teacher, or the man who does not condemn the of singing this to/about him?

I am also reminded of Jesus' own words:

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
(emphasis mine)

To quote another Christian children's song: "oh be careful little mouth what you say!"

2 comments:

Peter Pike said...

You probably won't like this one then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuLaJVzPuGA

I think they're actually saing "Deliver us O God" but the fact that they call Martin Luther King Jr a prophet and they're politicizing health care in the midst of it, they're still evil.

SD Sue said...

Both your post and Peter's video link made me sick. It is so like the Hitler Youth Movement before WW2. I shudder to think what is awaiting us. See my blog, also.