Somebody in Denmark is gonna have some ‘splainin to do to St. Peter one day.
Jim Geraghty reports on an editorial in a Danish newspaper says that Obama is greater than Jesus. This is not a paraphrase folks, this is what they said.
From the start, Obama’s critics have claimed that his supporters have idolised him as a saviour, thus attempting to dismantle the concrete hope that Obama has represented for most Americans.
The idea was naturally that the comparison between Jesus and Obama – which is something that the critics developed themselves – would be comical, blasphemous, or both.
If such a comparison were to be made, it would, of course, inevitably be to Obama’s advantage.
Today, his historic Health Reform is being passed through the American Senate – a welfare policy breakthrough that several of his predecessors have been unable to manage.
Despite all the compromises, it has finally been possible to ensure something so fundamental, as the right of every American not to be financially shipwrecked when their health fails them. Add to that the biggest ever financial support package in America’s history, a major disarmament agreement and the quickest-ever re-establishment of American reputation.
On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few. At the same time, we have the wonderful parables about his life and deeds that we know from the New Testament, but which have been interpreted so differently over the past 2000 years that it is impossible to give an unequivocal result of his work.
Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game.
Our man Chesterton famously said “”When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything,” and this is certainly the case here. Secular Europeans have a messiah shaped hole in their hearts that if not filled with the Truth is inevitably filled with something—or as in many cases in European history—someone else.
So Obama is their messiah of the day. My fear is that when they inevitably are disappointed in the deliverer not delivering, they may turn to something or someone much worse.
December 29, 2009 at 7:19 pm
hmm… sad!
December 29, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I'm confused… does this make Pelosi bigger than Mary Magdalene, too?
December 29, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Uff, God help them!
December 29, 2009 at 8:29 pm
This has either been written by an adolescent who wants to shock his elders or someone who has a very empty soul. If the latter, it is very sad indeed. St. Michael the Archangel………
December 29, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Maybe they weren't serious. I really hope whoever wrote this wasn't serious.
December 29, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I can see the mockmusical now. Anything you can do, I can do better….
Oh my. Jesus ONLY fed 5000. By that logic, McDonalds is greater than Christ too.
Ah. Ah. Ah. Is parody even possible anymore?
December 29, 2009 at 9:02 pm
This is an Op/Ed piece in Denmark of all places. Why is anyone giving this any attention at all? We have our own homegrown idiots who can and do say things just as ridiculous right here. This is not news.
December 29, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Didn't the Beatles say they're more popular than Jesus? Who thinks that now?
And didn't Nietzsche say that God is dead? Who's dead now?
December 29, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Makes one want to eat a prune danish!! The NYT has been hinting at the same thing now since 2004.
December 31, 2009 at 1:22 am
Reminds me of a joke–
The Seven Dwarfs were working in their mine when suddenly the roof caved in. All was silent as the dust settled, and then a voice rings out: "Obama is the greatest Presdent in the whold world."
Doc pokes up through the dirt and says,"Well, we know Dopey is OK."
That sums up Denmark's selection…
December 31, 2009 at 2:19 am
Shortly after John Lennon said the beatles were more popular than Our Blessed Lord he was gone, these guys ought to watch out….
January 3, 2010 at 6:50 pm
This for ma nation that has legalzied Euthanasia. Why do we even bother.