What a country we live in.

I will be the first to admit that I was not pleased with the election of Barak Obama from a political standpoint. From a racial and civil point of view it was great to finally see a man who was not white get into the oval office. That was a great step forward for the US. But from the perspective of the policies he supports and will enact as president, I couldn’t be more unhappy. That being said, I would never in a million years call the man the Antichrist. May be in the sense that he stands against Christ in issues like marriage and life, but not the label associated with the eschaton. However, someone put together some Youtube videos that indicate just that (I admit that the author/narrator of the vids says to think about the connection but that no assertions are being made. But the tone and the most obvious implication that appears to come from the vid is that Obama is the Antichrist.). Dan Wallace writes up a nice response to the videos–and provides the links to both videos as well.

Some good news has come out of the NFL, namely that the Philadelphia Eagles have signed Michael Vick to a two-year deal. Vick was recently released from prison, not too far from where I lived in KC for a while, having been convicted of dog-fighting and torturing animals. He served a two-year sentence and missed the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Many players and teams and fans–including myself–felt that Vick should be given a second chance, and he was. Erik, from the IrishCalvinist blog, makes a very keen and deeply troubling observation. That is cruelly torturing and killing dogs put Vick in prison for two years (and I’m not disagreeing with that sentence that Vick served nor am I saying the crime wasn’t horrible; I love my dog) but no one goes to jail for murdering humans because abortion is a choice. Why do humans value the life of animals more the life of their own species? That is backwards in a very fundamentally flawed way. Why is that?

What a country we live in.