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Obama, Original Sin, and Redemption

Posted By Steve Sailer On 18 February 2008 @ 2:22 In General | Comments Disabled

A reader writes:

“Obama appeals to secular whiterpeople with a powerful religious message. The sons and daughters of mainline [1] Protestantism will tell you they no longer believe in original sin, but a redemptive religious worldview doesn’t make much sense without it. They have translated it into white man’s guilt - for the crimes of [2] colonialism, for the fate of the planet - and they feel it as strongly as their grandparents felt the spur of original sin. Putting it all on the white man is actually a narcissistic diminution of original sin, but try telling that to a [3] whiterperson unschooled in theology. BarryO is selling redemption. We liked it from [4] Jean Calvin and[5] Jonathon Edwards, and we like it from him.”

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URLs in this post:
[1] Protestantism : http://www.vdare.com/gottfried/decay_Protestantism.htm
[2] colonialism: http://olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Letters/Britannia.htm
[3] whiterperson : http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/02/15/stuff-whiterpeople-like/
[4] Jean Calvin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_points_of_Calvinism#Total_depravity
[5] Jonathon Edwards,: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons.sinners.html