Saul, Saul, Why Did You Persecute Us?

Saul, Saul, Why Did You Persecute Us?

And the risen Jesus spoke to Saul of Tarsus, later St. Paul, and asked, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

The primary subject of this article is a different Saul, one Saul of Chicago, Saul Alinsky. Before his untimely but fortunate death in 1972, Saul Alinsky closely resembled the much earlier, pre-conversion Saul.

Our president is as much a long-term student of the Saul Alinsky slash and burn, destroy and maim political philosophy as he is an adherent of his former pastor’s, Rev. Jeremiah “God damn America” Wright’s, vile anti-American bile.

Saul of Tarsus was a hateful individual who persecuted early Christians, imprisoned them, and sought to have them put to death for their beliefs.

I don’t know if Saul Alinsky despised Christians but his hatefulness toward Americans and all that is good in America is suggestive of vile venom.

If Alinsky didn’t hate Christians, he sure as hell hated the most fundamental Christian principles.

Who Was Saul Alinsky? He was many things to many people: radical liberal, pseudo-mobster, brilliant academic, noted agitator, community organizer, committed atheist, closet Communist, successful author.

He was also the inspiration for the young Hillary Rodham and Barack Hussein Obama. As such, with Hillary Clinton now serving as Secretary of State and Barack Obama as president, Alinsky is more influential now than he was in his lifetime.

That’s not to say he didn’t have a great deal of influence when he was alive.

Born in Chicago to immigrant, Russian Jewish parents, Alinsky shared his religious heritage with Hungarian immigrant, George Soros, of MoveOn.org fame, another America-hater.

Instead of actively persecuting Christians, Saul Alinsky, like Soros, unashamedly spent most of his adult life engaged in a concerted effort to undermine America’s democratic republic traditions and our way of life.

He appropriately dedicated his book, Rules for Radicals, to “the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom–Lucifer.”

It’s ironic that both Clinton and Obama were devoted students of the “Alinsky Method” and went head to head in their quests for the presidency. From an Alinsky point of view, it would have been more productive to have a Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton Democratic ticket.

Either way, they would have beaten McCain-Palin, given the state of the economy, given McCain’s ineptitude, and given the idolatrous state media.

It turned out that Obama was a more astute student and effectively out-Alinskyed Clinton in the Democratic campaign for president, as pointed out in an article on AmericanThinker,com, “Obama’s Alinsky Jujitsu:” http://bit.ly/1atxQJ...
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