When religion and politics are sold in the same basket you get the last. Politico-Ecclesiastics.
So what !!! President Obama went to Church this Sunday and reminded the American people and the people of the worl, somewhat indirectly through the media, that he found Christ in a church in Chicago some twenty years earlier. The United Church of Christ meeting of faith should be enough to put to rest the many stories that place the American President on a justice scale balanced between his Muslim paternal heritage and his own Christian convictions.
But do they ? Mother always said, Politics and Religion make for strange bedfellows.
The real question about Mister Obama's true convictions about divinity should be whether or not he sees his church presence as a means of influencing votes more than about travelling the divine path defined by the prophetic patron of the episcopal church. The church Obama attended on his political campaign trail is called the First Congregational United Church of Christ or simply Saint John's Episcopal Church.
Look up St John's Church in Iowa and you find that there are several such religious houses. There is a Lutheran one, a Catholic one, there is a protestant Anglican Episcopal one, and one that is Evangelical protestant.
I can't find one that is Mormon in nature. Joseph Smith the founder of LDS was perplexed about the many interpretations of divine philosophy when he claims to have prayed for direction in order to choose which one to join. If the Mormon story holds any truth Smith had a vision much like the prophet Mohammad of the Islamic faith or of JC the prophet of the Christian faith. Smith was told to start his own and he did and he died for it.
I wonder if President Obama thinks of things like this when he is sitting in the President Pew, or the ninth pew, or pew 54, which has been reserved for the top officer of the American nation ever since James Madison was US President.
Saint John is usually a reference to John the Apostle who is speculated to be the author of the fourth Gospel of the Christian bible. He is John the Evangelist. John of Patmos is the author of the prophetic book of revelation and many religious scholars identify John of Patmos as being John the Evangelist. If the story of Christianity holds true to any degree then Saint John would have lived to witness the rise and fall of Jesus Christ and would have gone on to preach the word and to record his witness testimony which sometimes came in forms of visions while imprisoned on the Island of Patmos.
The Book of John is a record of the life of Jesus, from his baptism by another John that is not Saint John, to his resurrection. That's alot of John's but religion is a dirty business somehow often lost in interpretation.
The Book of Revelation is a book of eschatological significance which tells of end times and new beginnings. In the age when the writer(s) of these divine books were living the Greeks had a verb for the mystical nature of regeneration. Poiesis. Poiesis somehow could explain the Genesis factor. Today the term is used as a suffix usually in medical terms such as erythropoiesis or the creation of red blood cells.
Obama certainly has the social position for making Apocalyptic size events happen. He has the power to ride in one of the horseman of Saint John's Apocalypse.
One would have to ask him the hard questions to find out whether he was listening to the reverends sermon as he sat in his ninth row presidential pew or whether his mind was wandering into the oblivion of the poietic world that only the ancient philosophers seemed to truly understand.
If you are into Plato you might know that he shunned the poetic muses of the earlier genius Homer who told stories of gods and of other riddles of the past. Plato wanted science and facts.
Plato somehow mentioned in some of his writings that to truly find peace in our world there would need to come a single philosopher to lead all of the world. More knowledge on that can be had by searching the Philosopher King theory.
In an earlier post we mentioned the Caliphate of the Muslim and how rumours were going around that some people were calling for President Obama to become the next Caliph. Being a Caliph is basically having the politico-ecclesiastic power of ruling as the Pharoahs of Egypt did. Ruling as divine creations in the flesh.
I believe the Caliphate was abandonned some time back however I wonder if Obama thinks of things like this while sitting in the ninth pew away from St. John's alter.
Can the man in the ninth pew be the philosopher mentioned by Plato, or American Pharoah in the coming New World Order ? Maybe by some seemingly miraculous way he will actually save the world from collapsing into the mayhem of an economic apocalypse and for doing so will be raised to the rank of philosopher king, or Caliph, or even seer and prophet who saw the future and moved the human spirit towards wealth and peace and away from poverty and extinction. In the meantime remember that 1 of 7 Americans lives in utter poverty and the number is growing.
This is all so 2012'ish. The 2012 political race is all inclusive of religion. Votes depend on support and in America the Christian coalition by far outnumber those faithful to Islam.
What is the pres thinking about in the ninth pew ????????
What is an episcopal ?
Episcopals were scarcely less obnoxious than Catholics, so thought the Scottish Presbytarians......Episcopacy is a government of the church led by a hierarchy of bishops who act as chief clerics. The main problem of episcopacy might be in the amount of power they have and in the ability to administer such power. If the power of the bishop rule remains in religion then only the episcopals can suffer. If the power of the church and the bishop enters politics then it may just be the seed of politico-ecclesiastics.
From the ninth pew to 2012......who knows what is burning being the divine Bush ( no pun intended ) and what's playing out behind the smoking mirrors of Tezcatlipoca as he fights for souls in an ongoing battle against the form of the feathered serpent lord Quetzalcoatl.
The Pew poll showed that nearly one in five Americans - 18 percent - believe Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. In addition only about one third of Americans surveyed correctly describe Obama as a Christian, a sharp decrease from the 48 percent who said he was a Christian in 2009.For more on the ninth pew or pew 54 see this link.
Reuters
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