{"id":3731,"date":"2013-01-22T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2013-01-22T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:55:31","slug":"inauguration-poster-likens-obama-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3731","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration Poster Likens Obama to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Street vendors and souvenir stores across Washington, D.C. are selling posters depicting President Obama as Jesus Christ \u2014 and one national news publication called him the \u201cSecond Coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poster, which does not have the official endorsement of the White House, features an image of the president in prayer with the headline, \u201cProphecy Fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBarak is of Hebrew origin and its meaning is \u2018flash of lightning,\u201d the poster notes, referencing a passage in in the Old Testament book of Judges.<\/p>\n

Hussein, they allege, is a Biblical word meaning \u201cgood and handsome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you see, Barak was destined to be a good and handsome man that would rise like a flash of lightning to win victory in a battle against overwhelming odds,\u201d the poster read.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s cover of Newsweek depicts President Obama as the \u201cSecond Coming\u201d \u2013 a biblical reference to the return of Christ.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time that Obama has been deified by his supporters.<\/p>\n

Actor Jamie Foxx called President Obama \u201cour Lord and Savior\u201d during a recent television appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like church over here,\u201d Foxx told the audience. \u201cFirst of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBarack Obama,\u201d he shouted as the audience cheered.<\/p>\n

Florida A&M professor Barbara Thompson published a book titled \u201cThe Gospel According to Apostle Barack.\u201d The book likens Obama to Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned that Jesus walked the earth to create a more civilized society, Martin (Luther King) walked the earth to create a more justified society, but, Apostle Barack, the name he was called in my dreams, would walk the earth to create a more equalized society, for the middle class and working poor,\u201d she wrote in an excerpt published by The Daily Caller. \u201cApostle Barack, the next young leader with a new cause, had been taken to the mountaintop and allowed to see over the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n

A controversial painting of President Obama, posed as Jesus Christ on the cross, was part of an art exhibit at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. – Todd Starnes<\/p>\n

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Street vendors and souvenir stores across Washington, D.C. are selling posters depicting President Obama as Jesus Christ \u2014 and one national news publication called him the \u201cSecond Coming.\u201d The poster, which does not have the official endorsement of the White House, features an image of the president in prayer with the headline, \u201cProphecy Fulfilled.\u201d \u201cBarak … Continue reading “Inauguration Poster Likens Obama to Jesus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2289,560,2430,2431,745],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-madiba","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-obana","tag-second-coming","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hussein.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}