Obama is a socialist...

It is undeniable.

Everyone is focusing on the gospel quote that Obama made recently, wherein he took a passage from Luke and seemingly used it completely out of context.  I do think he did just that, but it isn't the misuse of the passage that I am finding interesting... it is the insight that gives us into Obama's thought processes.

Obama's choice to quote Luke 12 at the National Prayer Breakfast this week might have been "out of context" (I'm convinced it was, myself)... but that doesn't make it wrong for him to have done.  The beauty and wonder of the Gospels is that they give meaning and inspiration based on the individual reading them, every bit as much as they do to the collective whole of society and history.

I'm far more fascinated by the view into his agenda that the quote offers us.

He said, and I quote:  "...but for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus' teaching that,'for unto whom much is given, much shall be required... "

I find it almost tragic that a man that professes to be Christian could equate the blessings "given" by God to each of us as individuals as little more than a resource to be drawn from by the Government.  The gifts granted by God in each of our lives are NOT to be seen as part of a great pool that the Fed can dip into each and every time a need is perceived somewhere else in society.  Christ taught that the value of the individual was far greater than the value of the society... didn't the shepherd leave the flock unattended while He went in search of the lost lamb?  Whom did the Father kill the fatted calf for?  Not his faithful sons, but for his prodigal son who had squandered his inheritances and didn't even have shoes on his feet.

Yes, Christ taught us the value and worth of self sacrifice... it is a cornerstone of His ministry... but it is the personal self sacrifice given freely and without coercion that has value.  God sees no value in rendering on to Caesar that which is already Caesar's... He sees value in giving that which is outside of the required amount. If the Fed "requires" higher taxes, then it is not a valued effort on our part to give it.  However, if the Fed takes only that which it absolutely needs to provide the barest necessities of government (as the Founders intended), then the efforts made by the individual citizens through charitable donations, private organizations, and church groups to provide for those that cannot provide for themselves is both less burdensome on the individual and far, FAR more productive than anything the Fed could do itself.

Obama's quote shows us that the "individual" in his eyes is nothing more than a small, small portion of the far greater resource pool that is the US of A.  Successful individuals must pay to support less successful individuals, all to benefit society as a whole and NEVER to benefit either (or any) individual at all.  The popular image so ingrained in modern times by campy movie themes is that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one" is so utterly and totally false in its very premise that it should be struck from the hearts of men at every stroke.  Ironically, the movie that quote comes from even shows us this... it is the message underlying both THAT movie and its even campier sequel.

Just one more bit of evidence that this modern day we live in is based totally on a "catch-phrase" understanding of history and morality... and that even our President employs this understanding.