On Tuesday, I watched as both men and women genuflected, swooned, and cried because Barack Hussein Obama has claimed the Democrat Party’s nomination as presidential nominee for the 2008 election.  At the same time, cheerleaders of both genders and all ages were waving signs and yelling out cheers for Obama.  You would have thought it was the second coming of Christ…

Wait…

That is exactly what this represents for these people.  It is clear that many people on the left have no religion and lack any real spiritual connection to a higher power.  In fact many of them deny the existence of a higher power, outright.

Lacking any such connection to a higher power, leftists turn people into messiahs and causes into religion.  Look at the situation with Paul Wellstone.  He was a marginal, leftist Senator who used the paths of academia and community activism to gain influence and eventually to be elected to the Senate.  He died in a plane crash just as he was running for reelection.  He died inA memorial ceremony held after his death turned into a revival meeting.  A decade later, people in Minnesota still display the original lawn signs and bumper stickers from the election in which he never got to run.  Those same people still tear up when they hear the sound of his name. 

Now the messiah is Obama.  The same teeth clenching, gut-wrenching sobs, the same cheers, and the same idolization of a human being. 

As far as religion goes, the left has taken environmentalism as its cause.  And it proselytizes that cause with a religious fervor even stronger than that of most missionaries.

After all, if a person doesn’t believe in a God, they need some one and/or some thing to fill the void.

Today, the new messiah is Barack Hussein Obama.  God help us.