"The Abolition of Man"/Barack Obama & Harvard

How can a man like Barack Obama get this far in the political process, with his 20 year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ, in all its ugliness, undisclosed?

It is an egregious circumstance, which should serve as a strobe alert to the rest of us, the "crazies" are running the asylum! Political correctness, situational ethics, relativism, have overwhelmed our culture, we are literally drowning in what a prophetic C.S. Lewis called, "The Abolition of Man," in his book of the same title.

This stir over Obama's absurd membership in a church which ascribes to racial hatred, malicious accusations against America, Whites and Jews, whose minister travels to Libya to see Momar Khadafi, gives a "life time achievement" award to Louis Farakan, is an eye opening opportunity to see where America stands intellectually and morally! It is devastating relvelation!

The media, (no surprise,) even the seemingly most "enlightened" commentators, are underplaying the significance of this whole fiasco. Ultimately, it asks a fundamental question.

What does it mean to be Man? Lewis argues it means the "doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kind of things we are." He goes on to say, all cultures have so operated, whether it be the Chinese Tao, the Jewish Law, the Western Natural Law, the Hindu, Buddhist, Egyptian, Aborigines writings, etc.

Augustine defined virtue, "the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind of degree of love which is appropriate to it." Therefore, the point of education is to "make the pupil like and dislike what he ought." "When the age for reflective thought comes, the pupil who has been thus trained in 'ordinate affections' or 'just sentiments' will easily find the first principles in Ethics..."

Lewis goes on to quote Plato from the Republic, "the well-nurtured youth is one 'who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise of beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he becomes a man of gentle heart." If this is achieved, Plato argues, when the age of reason comes, he will "hold out his hands in welcome and recognize her because of the affinity he bears for her."

Could it get any more beautifully annunciated? Values matter, and values can be judged by our actions. If all values are the same, if it is politically incorrect to judge one value system relative to another, what is left to ground this being we call Man? One thing only is left...as Lewis empasizes, if there is no ought, then, there is only want; want is only acquired through power. Whoever steals the most power, his "values" win, hence we have the values of totalitarian states, of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler.

Obama was educated at Harvard, a school originally founded by religious values. Does anyone think Obama was educated in the values inherent in the Natural Law, and on which this country was founded? Does anyone think it is acceptable at Harvard, or most other universities, to advocate inculcating children with the most true sense of values? Of course not, it is considered immoral in our contemporary culture to raise ANY set of values, against any other set of values. It is considered wrong to make moral judgements on behavior, it's called situational ethics!

This is the abysmal state of affairs in which we find ourselves and, in which, a man, devoid of any real sense of values, can be nominated as President of the United States of America.

We, as parents and grandparents, MUST turn this around in our own families. We MUST stand up and fight for the Natural Law and true moral principles, which have advanced the spiritual development of man from the beginning of civilization itself.

These principles are NOT found in the Trinity United Church of Christ. That Obama has been a member in good standing for 20 years, contributing $22,500.00 in 2006 alone, should finish his political aspirations!

If I hear one more commentator say one more time, "well, we have to accept him at his word," I will scream. No, we DO NOT have to accept him at his word, we have to judge him by his actions, and over the last 20 years his actions have spoken loud and clear!