Althouse has an excellent post this morning regarding Obama’s efforts to invoke a religious obligation to support health care reform.  As she frames it: “government as religion”. Pretty scary stuff actually.

President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring a coalition of religious leaders to help promote the plan to lower costs and expand insurance coverage for all Americans.

“I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness,” Mr. Obama told a multidenominational group of pastors, rabbis and other religious leaders who support his goal to remake the nation’s health care system.

So, now opponents of Obamacare are not just an angry mob of un-American bigots, we have also transgressed the 9th Commandment (or 8th if your Catholic).   All I can say in response is “let he who is without sin, cast the first stone”.  Or maybe take the log from your own eye.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation. That is that we look out for one other, that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. And in the wealthiest nation on earth right now, we are neglecting to live up to that call.

Yikes.  As Althouse notes, Obama is not his own brother’s keeper (he lives in poverty in Kenya), so this is about the government being “Big Brother”.  Shades of Orwell anyone?

And perhaps scariest of all:

“We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama said, according to [Rabbi Jack] Moline (paging Sarah Palin…), quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided “who shall live and who shall die.”

Ok then.  I guess I choose to be a sacrafice on the alter of Obama. 

Heaven help us all.