By Douglas V. Gibbs
President Barack Obama, following the tradition set by presidents before him, offered an Easter Greeting by relaying a few words from a sermon given by a military chaplain on Iwo Jima on Easter Sunday, 1945.
Obama said in reference to the 1945 sermon, "The rites of Passover, and the traditions of Easter, have been marked by people in every corner of the planet for thousands of years. They have been marked in times of peace, in times of upheaval, in times of war.
"One such war-time service was held on the black sands of Iwo Jima more than sixty years ago. There, in the wake of some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, a chaplain rose to deliver an Easter sermon, consecrating the memory, he said 'of American dead – Catholic, Protestant, Jew. Together,' he said, 'they huddled in foxholes or crouched in the bloody sands. . . Together they practiced virtue, patriotism, love of country, love of you and of me.' The chaplain continued, 'The heritage they have left us, the vision of a new world, [was] made possible by the common bond that united them. . . their only hope that this unity will endure.'
"Their only hope that this unity will endure."
If you listen to the original sermon, however, it becomes clear that Uncle Barry literally edited Christ right out of the text, and changed much of what the chaplain had originally preached.
The Chaplain did not say that their unity was the hope of the world, he said that Jesus was the hope of the world.
Since Obama is clearly the most devisive president in history, he is wishing to do anything he desperately can to seem like he's a unifier, even if it means shoving the message of false unity down our throats through a lie about a sermon from sixty-five years ago.
But this is too much. Instead of relaying the original a message of the observance of Passover and Easter that was in the sermon, President Obama essentially said in this holiday greeting that not only do neither mean anything to him, but that he is willing to take a sermon and cut Christ out of it, as well as cutting Christ out of America (remember, he believes we are no longer a Christian nation).
Obama is actually trying to water down what people actually believe, hoping to unify us in some Obama-esque kind of way.
Obama is not our hope, and he is hardly one to be talking about unity considering how he has been dividing this nation since he's been in office. For Christians, Jesus is our hope. Our hope is in the risen Christ, and we celebrate His Resurrection on Easter Sunday, not the forced unity under a government umbrella labeled the Family of Man by a man that thinks he's the "ruler" of the United States of America.
In the end, Obama's Easter message, in all his hopes of creating unity, created division because he removed Christ from a memorable 1945 Easter sermon in his message.
Christians are not going to riot like Muslims would if Obama had dared say something unbecoming of Muhammed, but it does bother me that Obama seems to continually try to eliminate Christ from the American journey.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Weekly Address: President Obama Extends Holiday Greeting - The White House, Washington
Easter Service on Recently Recaptured Iwo Jima - History.com
Obama: We Are No Longer A Christian Nation - You Tube
Obama Mocks America's Christian Heritage - You Tube
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