Why the Outrage?

Deborah Venable

dkvenable@debv.com

10/02/09

I hope the story keeps its “legs” and marches straight on through the conscience of every thinking American citizen before it takes a rightful bow and exits stage left.  As I think about those video tapes revealed last week that show very young school children singing songs of worship to Barack Hussein Obama, I continue to feel infuriated, exasperated, and sheer terror for my country!

I wrote about the real danger of indoctrination in my latest “professional parenting” article feature on my website a few days ago.  I said that I find the controversy somewhat amusing in a lot of ways, and I do.  I explained all that in that story.  But here are a few thoughts that I didn’t expound on there.

If you watched most of those video clips, you probably noticed a familiar tune accompanying the Obama worshiping lyrics.  That tune is more famously known as our “Battle Hymn Of the Republic.”  The real lyrics to that song speak of the coming of the Lord.  My Lord.  My God.  The same God that made the founding and the success of America even possible!  I wonder if those school children know the real words to THAT song.  I shake with anger now as I imagine the answer is probably a resounding NO for most of them!

“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 lightening of His terrible swift sword.

His truth is marching on!”

Now, I didn’t go look up those lyrics.  Didn’t have to.  I’ve known them as long as I’ve had consciousness.  I’ve also had a good understanding of what they mean.  Here are the following verses of that song which may be found here, along with a little history from this page:

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.

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."

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.

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.

You can read all the history for yourself, but suffice it to say the poem was written during America’s darkest hours by a woman wishing to inspire her countrymen in a positive way.  I hardly think that was the intentions of the current crop of Obama worshipers.

The other thing that truly disturbed me about those tapes was the other little ditty that included the line, “red and yellow, black and white, they are equal in his sight.”  That was plagiarized from another song I learned as a child:

“Jesus loves the little children,

All the children of the world.

Red and yellow, black and white,

They are precious in His sight.

Jesus loves the little children of the world.”

See the difference?  I certainly do not equate the word, “precious” with “equal” – do you?  English can get pretty screwy to dope out sometimes, but this one is a no-brainer.

So, why am I picking all this apart, you might ask?  Well, as Glenn Beck recently pointed out, children cannot even sing Christmas carols in government run schools any more – and we aren’t supposed to be outraged at this?

Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, certainly couldn’t be realistically connected with anything that brought attention to the fact that children are precious.  Especially not when his opinions, policies, and philosophies support the continued lawful slaughter of over fifty million potential precious children in this country alone over the past three decades!  To even subtly suggest that this man is worthy of worship and comparison to Jesus Christ, much less the Lord our God of this nation, is outrageous!

To say that the engineers of “fundamental change” currently at work in America have stepped over a line would be a gross understatement.  They wanted God stripped out of our culture, our heritage, and our schools – only to replace Him with this pitiful excuse for a human soul – much less a god – and indoctrinate all future Americans to embrace this folly of greatness even as they accept their chains of ignorance. 

Ladies and gentlemen – that’s why the outrage!