Obamessiah, Indeed

I found this quote over at Jim Geraghty's The Campaign Spot:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

This is particularly scary because, as an active member of an Evangelical, socially- and communitarily-involved church, I can aver that this is precisely the sort of language used to describe the life-changing transformation we should expect when we come to faith in Jesus Christ. If this trend continues, expect declarations that voting for Obama will be "dangerous", meant in a positive way.

There were complaints that, with Mike Huckabee, we would have been electing a "Pastor-in-Chief". With Obama, apparently, we're electing a Son-of-God-in-Chief.