A message to Obama supporters: if you don't want conservatives accusing you of not be respectful of Christians and people of faith, stop taking sacred texts, songs, hymns, and themes and inserting the name of Obama in place of God or Jesus.
To back up Zo's point, I will paste below the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the tune of which those school kids were singing their Obama praise song to. Please note the opening line, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" and "He died to make men holy, so let's fight to make men free!"
This song is about Jesus, people. Not Obama. Stop taking songs about Jesus and replacing Jesus with Obama. At the lowest level, for those that don't believe in God, it is disrespectful. For others, it's creepy. Why would you want to worship ANY man? Why structure any support material for political persona's to mimic God, and Jesus? At worst, for those of us that do believe in the salvific grace of Jesus Christ, this is nothing other than a spectacularly audaciaous display of blasphemy, encountered in the Bible in only the darkest corners that allude to the devil himself. For observant Jews and Christians, this is serious and scary stuff. It is totally inappropriate and unsettling. Cut it out.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
- He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
- He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
- His truth is marching on.
- (Chorus)
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- His truth is marching on.
- I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
- They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
- I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
- His day is marching on.
- (Chorus)
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- His day is marching on.
- I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
- "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
- Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
- Since God is marching on."
- (Chorus)
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Since God is marching on.
- He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
- He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
- Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
- Our God is marching on.
- (Chorus)
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Our God is marching on.
- In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
- With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
- As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
- While God is marching on.
- (Chorus)
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- While God is marching on.
- He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
- He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
- So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
- Our God is marching on.
- (Chorus)
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Glory, glory, hallelujah!
- Our God is marching on.
Now go back and listen to those school kids singing this song and listen to their words, and tell me that your skin isn't crawling...
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