What Is This World Coming To?

Celebrities, including Jay-Z, Smokey Robinson, Don King, Denzel Washington, and Oprah Winfrey, spoke with CNSNews.com in the hours before the inauguration just a few feet from the rostrum where Obama was sworn-in as the nation’s 44^th president. They spoke about how Obama had changed their lives and which Biblical character they think he most resembles.

Don King thought Obama was most like Joshua, because Obama has gotten to the “Promised Land”.  But only in the context of Martin Luther King as Moses, because “Martin Luther King Jr. was prevented from going into the Promised Land.”   (MLK wanted to be president?)

But CNS was able to find even dumber celebrities . . .

“There are so many Biblical figures who had the same task,” popular R&B singer and songwriter Smokey Robinson told CNSNews.com. “I really don’t know. I just think he is himself and he will go down in world history – not Biblical history – as a world leader who brought people together. Look around you. The world is here.”

Sure. There was President David, and President Moses and President Solomon . . .  and now Barack Obama . .

Oprah Winfrey said that Barack Obama “makes me want to be a better human being.”     Denzel’s mother told CNS that Obama was too much to be just one Biblical figure.

“I would say any one of the Biblical leaders,” said Denzel Washington’s mother, Lennis Washington, who was attending the inauguration with her son on Tuesday. “The apostle Paul, Moses, John the Baptist – any one of them. Seriously, he is like one of those apostles for our day. He came to lead us to the original design of what we are supposed to do on this earth.”

Sigh.