A Separate but Equal Parallax >>

As a small child I was fixated on the roadside curb as I stared out the station wagon’s window. The road in my immediate view seemed to tear past me at a murderous clip while hazy towers lumbered along in the distance. I could never quite figure how nearby objects seemed to move so fast while distant ones moved so slow, given that they were passing me at the same speed…

I mostly write this article in the spirit of a Christian, not so much a Conservative. In recent months, Youtube has pumped reels after countless reels of Reverend Jeremiah Wright waving his firebrand against whites, America, free enterprise, and historical war efforts. This shrieking maniac, and I say that with no exaggeration, was dismissed by an empathetic media who swooned as Obama gave his explanation, shrugging these statements off as the mere ravings of a church culture that was flamboyant, suppressed, and edgy by nature. Journalists sycophantically nodded with puppydog eyes and soft understanding, and simply accepted that these snippets were taken out of context. Weeks later, in the words of Mark Steyn, Reverend Wright provided the context… and it wasn’t pretty. An air of palpable silence seemed to fill the room as Obama once more assumed the podium and cleared his throat like a 70s titan journalist. His brow seemed furrowed in a stern countenance that could only suggest that what he had to say was grave, and with all the smiling on Rolling Stone’s kiss-ass covers, the new dread countenance was undoubtedly a livid put-on, likely rehearsed, to feign righteous indignation. The One was shocked and outraged, and so he got a pass.

All black men must know the ins and outs of the Civil Rights movement, and are therefore immune from they themselves being bigoted, no matter how glaring they are.

All that said, this debate veils a deeper and more heinous issue; Black Liberation Theology. To begin, Social Gospel has helped fight poverty, increase AIDS awareness, educate the less fortunate, and fight addiction. All good causes, no? These movements were often described as progressive, and frequently impinged into realms that had little to do with theology, such as a press for an eight hour workday (I work 10). But it was near the commencement of the 20^th century that social progressives, who innocently saw the Bolshevism as a brave new wave, made their alliances and vice versa. Communism had not proven its genocidal and economic failures and still danced elegantly on the white pages it filled. At this time, social Christians were post-millennial, believing that a golden age would be ushered in by man, thus ridding the world of injustice and poverty and “paving the way for the scion” (and I guess quitting the four horsemen of their world tour obligations). This runs contrary to the broken nature of mankind taught in Christianity, fundamentally deceiving the Christian mind into thinking that salvation is earned by deed alone and not the power of the One True God. Such tenants leave theology bereft of God, and create a “Sorelian myth” to mobilize the public to treat human issues with purely material needs. This is a gentle but firm commandeering of true faith. Even its transatlantic twin, Leninism, prescribed to the notion that a golden age of human goodness would be ushered in—the identical millennial eschatology that humanist religions teach.

Over the years as the Iron Curtain spread its disease into Latin America, rife with colonialism and what some would describe as feudalism, Marxists became a voice, the only voice, of public discontent. Capitalism and Federalism was for the Yankees. In order to penetrate the poor, Catholic hemisphere, Marxists and Stalinists realized that they could not put themselves at odds with people who were just too addicted to the opiate of faith. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! Boom! Liberation Theology! Sandanista Marxists in Nicaragua? Liberation Theology. Decades of socialist revolution aided by Castro? Liberation Theology. What was it exactly? It was a God-state solution, staging lies such as Jesus supporting the socialist revolution and turning a spiritual struggle into a class kampf. This inauthentic virus received condemnation from the Vatican and Pope John Paul II who denounced socialistic failings and its flacid attempts at interacting with religion.

Subsequently, Black Liberation Theology became a North American spinoff of this heinous Ba’al, created by James Cone, Princeton Theologian, who adapted the system for movements here in the United States. The primary difference was that the black man was his Übermensch to lead the revolt. BLT (I will mock this false god, based on the old lawyer’s motto that one can indict a ham sandwich) calls for a bellicose black nationalism, a Marxist economic prescription, racial separatism, separate statehood and sovereignty, closed culture, language, necessary violence, and a black army. It also calls for a uniquely “Black Deity.” During the 60s and 70s, BLT ran parallel to the Black Panther Movement. Its revolutionary and hateful implications are Afro-centric in nature and parallel the watered-down God-state that Latin American revolutionaries use to canonize serial killers like Ernesto “Che” Guevara like patron saints, akin to churches now hijacked and used as state-sponsored mouth pieces, preaching prosperity doctrine and collective salvation in place of an individual sort. These fools show up late for the Sermon on the Mount and instead try to collect the bread and loaves for their constituents.

No. Jesus did NOT come to adjust the CPI or ensure free healthcare. He came and died because we are damned. Period! The state is not God marching over the earth through history. Rather, the good ones have blearily sought to follow His will, enforce justice, face down evil, and respect liberty – all three of which are God’s will made manifest in the Laws of Moses and the teachings of Jesus.

So for me, this is where Obama threatens authentic faith, and what his worldview implies. He is not going to take the Oath of Office on a Koran and he will likely avoid wearing Muslim garb at the behest of his sagacious handlers. Rather, he will infiltrate the church with matching funds (bribes) to achieve his directives, converting it into a Peace Corps that calls itself a church, works for the state, and lacks the cojones to proclaim the true gospel of individual salvation, personal morality, uncompelled charity, and moral absolutism. This newly-venerated form of faith will be based on works, with battalions of young Pharisees blowing trumpets in the public square upon each act of charity, sent out to ensure newly- concocted rights without the God that divinely granted them. For this largess, the Kingdom will receive glory, not the Father. The schismatic Episcopal Church, which broke away from the mainstream and into postmodernism on the issue of gay clergy, will find progressive allies in government, each granting funds and legitimacy to the other to achieve the same ends. This will not be leaving a crèche on public land; it will be placing the State in the manger. Grass roots organizer Obama has already stated emphatically that he supports faith-based initiative, giving us all some deeper insight into why.

…I later learned that astronomers call this distance phenomenon I witnessed from the car window “stellar parallax.” Focus on distant objects causes the illusion that your own position is not moving. I could travel endless miles through the California deserts in one hour, and yet perceive no movement in the heavens. In fact, if I were to sit in the passenger seat for 50 miles staring only at the sky I would perceive no movement at all. “Look only at me,” so sayeth the distant leaders...

Meanwhile, in Black America, Obama will not heal the rifts between the races, but deepen them with continued slip-ups and gaffes of leftist invective. But Black America will see the truest pinnacle of their hopes and dreams as a head of state… not a preacher, soldier, captain of industry, or anything else. People in America may not know their congressman, but they do erringly look to the President as the sole source of policy and CEO of America, an outgrowth of communal apathy towards the complexities of Senate, House, and Supreme Court (as well as local government). A president of such low caliber will sway blacks into seeing the State as its sole source of redemption, redress, provision, and aspiration; a monomaniacal “one-face” fixation that is pronounced among all races that don’t have time for political study, but a state solution that will protrude more prominently for blacks than it currently does.

Simultaneous to this, BLT will move into the mainstream, as thinkers like James Cone and Jeremiah Wright will have the ear of the Executive Branch. Indeed funds will flow into churches, and a new generation of black youth will be thralls to the inculcation of separatism, populist action, racism, petulant nationalism, domestic militarism, socialism, grievance redress, and charismatic leadership. It is quite possible that in our time, we could see in American streets, churches, and academia a grassroots rise of black nationalism that would rival that of the German Socialist Party. This is nothing more than an Afro-centric strain of Nazism. But wait…that could not happen in America.The black community of faith will tectonically drift away from that of white America, and the black church will be hardened and politicized as a social movement decades too late to achieve any purposeful goal. All the while, a hybridized dilution of the Judeo-Christian tradition will suffer a spiritual delirium for dancing to the moral vertigo of Social Gospel. Sad to say that most people think we are the religious nutjobs.

…Parallax applies to so many things. Take a hypothetical Mr. White and Mr. Black, stranded on a makeshift raft of driftwood in the middle of the Atlantic. During a storm, the bundle separates and both men drift apart from each other under the vast sky. The greater the distance, the less apparent each other’s shifts would be to the other man. Mr. Black can paddle to the left and right by several yards, but being half a mile away, Mr. White will see little or no movement at all, perhaps just a speck of motion. The greater the distance, the less their respective movements relate to each other. The rafts at sea, the car in the desert. Parallax.

No, Obama is too conciliatory to put the church under siege. He will organize it like a community. Not with a snide truncheon like most liberals, but with a smiling and funded embrace.  Obama will achieve his end with distant movements barely observable to the onlooker, and America will not see this motion in government, because government is where it would be signed into law, not where it will be acted out. It will be in the pews, ripping past us at blinding speeds. But we must not fall under the delusion of viewing distant figureheads to ignore the shifting ground beneath our feet. We, the faithful, cannot overlook radically altered surroundings while shrugging off what appears as tiny changes… miles away.

WARNING: OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR. >>