For all practical purposes, Europe is secular and godless. To compare Obama to Jesus is to move journalism into the realm of the unknown. We have in mind the unknown quantity, Jesus. He is not unknown to millions who accept his claim on their lives.
Turns out there was more than one "unknown quantity" in the house. Obama.
A year ago, the clown who wrote our article of the moment, had this to say about Barack:
Despite all the compromises, it has finally been possible to ensure something so fundamental, as the right of every American not to be financially shipwrecked when their health fails them. Add to that the biggest ever financial support package in America’s history, a major disarmament agreement and the quickest-ever re-establishment of American reputation.
On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few. At the same time, we have the wonderful parables about his life and deeds that we know from the New Testament, but which have been interpreted so differently over the past 2000 years that it is impossible to give an unequivocal result of his work.
Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today’s domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good chances of expanding considerably in coming years.
Without, however, ever attaining the heavens.... LINK
We would make the argument that Obama is not greater than Jimmy Carter, much less God in Christ.
One thing for certain, we do not expect to see such journalistic tripe again, either in the European press or here, in America.
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