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Kansas Church:”America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord.”

“Mark Holick, a preacher in Wichita, Kansas has posted a hateful message on his church sign that reads “America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord.”

The preacher refuses to remove the sign despite the fact that Obama is a Christian.”

The article has a photo of the sign, which includes an abbreviated reference to the book of Exodus, Chapter 20, Verse 3. That might perhaps be the weirdest thing about this little imbroglio. Exodus 20:3 is otherwise known as the First Commandment (of Ten Commandments fame — you may have heard of them):

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

Let’s temporarily leave aside the fact that Muslims worship the same God of Abraham (Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, YHVH) that Jews and Christians do.

The implication seems to NOT merely be the simple claim that the supposedly apostate Obama is sinning (for sake of the false claim that he is Muslim, which is, in turn, mistakenly thought to violate the 1st Commandment).

Rather, the clear implication seems to be that the U.S. electorate has sinned by electing Obama. Now, as an anarchist I believe electing anybody is a “sin”, but that’s not really the same thing that this preacher is saying.

Rather, the preacher seems to be implying that he believes choosing the president of an earthly government is an act of worship — one that has been improperly performed, to a sacriligious degree, by the particular choice of president in this case. This is rather stunning. It indicates this preacher doesn’t worship God. He worships government. The election was an act of worship to him, and he condemns the electorate for ruining the worship ritual by choosing (in his estimation) the “unclean” candidate.

I should point out, BTW, that this worship of government rather than God by the preacher makes the preacher a de facto Satanist. Refer to the essay “Jesus is an Anarchist” by James Redford.

No, I’m not a man of faith myself. I do believe those who are ought to be evaluated on their adherence to what they profess to believe, though.

The C4SS bloggers conference call earlier today went well despite light turnout. Here I was just wanting to chat w/ folks and along comes Stefan Molyneux to turn it into an internet radio show. Expect another one in December.

In related news, I’m pleased to welcome Kevin Carson as the first C4SS paid staff member. It’s only a part-time job and so far only initially funded. You can help change that, though.

After a long hiatus that started when it became clear in early 2007 that timing was going to be an issue with regard to fundraising, I’m dusting off my plans to try to organize a market anarchist media center / think tank. Although the web site is still in the middle of an overhaul, please join me for a bloggers conference call — perhaps the first of several. The agenda is simply an open-ended post-election chat on the future direction of American politics and its impact on the effort to popularize market anarchism.

When discussing his non-voting, Keith Olberman recently said:

“It is driven by the same thing that used to make me keep my distance from the athletes I covered. I don’t want anything, even that tiny bit of symbolic connection, to stand in between me and my responsibility to be analytical and critical.”

H/T: Lew Rockwell