{"id":304,"date":"2008-10-22T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/10\/is-obama-your-sanctuary.html"},"modified":"2008-10-22T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T09:25:08","slug":"is-obama-your-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/10\/is-obama-your-sanctuary.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama your Sanctuary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"manifestobama.jpg\"<\/span>Glenn Beck highlighted a video <\/a>on his show this morning, and frankly I just about fell over. It’s since been taken off YouTube.com but I’ll keep looking for another link. (Found it: see the video in this post.) <\/a>The ManifestObama.com website says “this site is no longer here,” but it’s still disturbing, nonetheless.
\n(This just in: The ManifestObama.com site is down, but you can see still the cache of the page. <\/a> It comes to you from the touchy, feeling, reveal your inner wisdom, New Age site, Wisdomology.com.<\/a>)
\nThe video, from ManifestObama.com, used the worship song “Sanctuary” as a soundtrack to dozens of people saying the name, “Barak Obama,” with the following copy scrolling across the screen (thanks to P.J. Gladnick at Newsbusters.com for the transcription<\/a>):<\/p>\n


\nBetween now and November 4…
\nLet’s spend one minute a day…
\nEnvisioning Barack Obama…
\nAs our President…
\nPrepare your heart to fill with hope…
\nPrepare your mind to embrace the change…
\nEnvision Barack victorious on election night…
\n…Taking the oath of office…
\nOn Inauguration Day…
\nBelieve that this great moment in American history is already a reality…
\nSay the words to yourself…
\nTo your family…
\nTo your friends and neighbors…
\nSay it to the world…
\nYour vision is a sacred trust…
\nYou are a sanctuary of a sacred vision for a renewed America…
\nEnvision it…
\nSay it…
\nFeel it…
\nBelieve it…
\nMake it our reality…
\nManifest Obama, America!
\nIt’s not just that they use the worship song “Sanctuary” in a political promo that bothers me. It’s that they makers of the video have declared Obama<\/em> as that sanctuary! In fact, it’s some kind of New Age thing.
\nYou’ve got to be joking.
\nThe song is a worship song sung to God<\/em>, asking for our hearts to be a sanctuary for worship to the Almighty – not a song for Barak Obama. Here are the lyrics to the song “Sanctuary”:
\nLord, prepare me to be a sanctuary
\nPure and holy, tried and true
\nWith thanksgiving, I’ll be a living
\nSanctuary for You
\nIt is you, Lord
\nWho came to save
\nThe heart and soul
\nOf every man
\nIt is you Lord
\nwho knows my weakness
\nWho gives me strength,
\nWith thine own hand.
\nLead Me on Lord
\nFrom temptation
\nPurify me
\nFrom within
\nFill my heart with
\nYou holy spirit
\nTake away all my sin
\nThe CCLI license lists John W. Thompson and Randy Scruggs as the authors of this song. I wonder what they’d think of their song being used to proclaim a political candidate as “the sanctuary of a sacred vision” and his political platform a “vision of a sacred trust.” In fact, I wonder if the people in the video even knew their short “Barak Obama” would end up in a video profaning a worship song.
\nBut what do you think? Is it appropriate for a political candidate (even if the video was created by Obama supporters and not officially by the Obama campaign) to use any worship song as promotion? And have Obama followers taken on a weirdly cult-like attitude, or is it just me that thinks that?<\/strong>
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