{"id":5378,"date":"2008-06-07T06:38:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T06:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/obama-the-lightworker.html"},"modified":"2008-06-07T06:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T06:38:45","slug":"obama-the-lightworker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/obama-the-lightworker.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama the “Lightworker”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it any wonder that we call Obama the messiah when we read things like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.
\n[…]
\nHere’s where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
\nThe unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is no way a human being can live up to this hype. When Obama turns out to be just your standard run of the mill politician, what is this guy going to think or will he view everything Obama does as extra special anyway regardless of what he does (I suspect it’s the latter).
\n(via<\/a>)
\nAn interpretation of this post from the Reformed perspective<\/a>:
\nI already blogged about political saviors here<\/a>. It really is sad that people put their hope in one guy, especially one who is this inexperienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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