I am just getting warm and fuzzy all over.  On Friday the 13th (is there some irony in that?), Emperor Obama “weighed in forcefully” in support of religious freedom in America.  He feels that the building of a “worship and community center” within the shadow of the collapsed World Trade Center towers is simply a matter of staying “true to our core values.”

At a White House observation of the beginning of Ramadan, he told a group of Muslims that he believes “That Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.”

I am a firm supporter of property rights.  The use of regulatory authority to limit what an owner does with their property it tantamount to theft.  So, I can't object to the building of a mosque.

But here’s my problem.  My problem is with the nature of the Emperor’s magnanimous support.  Obama called the mosque a “worship and community center.”  That is a benign terminology of the real purpose of the build-out.  Somehow the picture of seniors exercising to water ballet just doesn’t fit my concept of “Muslim community.”  The community that has been built in too many mosques has involved high explosives.  Not a good thing.

Then there is the Emperor’s assertion of “as everyone else in this country.”  Who is the “everyone else?”  It can’t be Christians.  Christians have been watching their symbols and prayers and even themselves be shut out of event after event and community after community across the empire!  When I was invited to offer prayer to begin a session of the U.S. House of Representatives, I was politely told that I should not pray in “Jesus’ name” because it might offend someone and thus be in bad taste.  (I did it anyway!)

The un-reverend Rick “purpose-driven-church” Warren did mention Jesus in his invocation at the Obama inauguration, but then Rick included Jesus as one in a whole list of false and demonic gods.  Good going, Rick!

In the Old Testament, there is the story of such corruption in the priesthood that a priest’s wife gives birth and then dies.  Her last words are the naming of her son, Ichabod – “the glory has departed.”  We have to come to grips with this fact … the glory has departed America.  We cannot ask, “God bless America,” because God has never made a habit of blessing what has already been cursed.

America is gone.  It is being ruled by the most corrupt of overlords.  Our only hope is to break away and become a free and independent Tennessee nation.

From Solitude,
David O Jones