Sweet Tea & Theology

Obamanians: Thought I’d Seen It All

I’m driving home with my family this past Saturday. We’re a few miles from home and in astonishment, I say, “Did you see it?! Do you all see it?!” I was pointing to the car just in front of us and to the right.  My wife and daughter didn’t see it and were asking, “What?!” in a frustrated tone since I was so stirred up about what I was showing them. So I speed up, passed a car to come along side the vehicle I was pointing at. So just what did I see? I saw the most unbelievable license plate which I have recreated below.

The Visibility of Barack Obama

Dr. Bruce L. Fields¹ of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School writes in the latest Themelios Journal² about Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy as it relates to his racial identity and who people actually see.

In his article, Barack Obama: The Quandary of “Selective Invisibility”³ Dr. Fields touches on what is visible about Obama and what needs to be invisible about him and his appeal.

Obama, Abortion and Pay Grades

Christianity Today’s morning article Obama says abortion comment at megachurch forum too flip has some interesting quotes from Obama speaking about his answer to when a baby gets human rights at the Saddleback Forum.  Remember, Obama first said that this question was “above my pay grade.”  One immediate problem with that is many people are voting either for or against him based on this very issue.  And it is clear that he also has an opinion on the issue based on his voting record and his own words.  If he really thought it were above his pay grade he would not have voted and not given a public opinion.  It would have stayed “private” in the same way many politicians claim their faith is private.  Private when it’s convenient, I’d say.