Obama mentor viewed Catholic Church as threat to the State

Frank Marshall Davis complained about ‘God-and-gun clinging Americans,’ and ‘saw the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the State.’

Source: Dateline Zero

‘The Communist’ by Paul Kengor presents the results of research into a man who the president himself says was an influence on his thinking.

As pointed out in this video, author Paul Kengor isn’t calling President Obama a Communist. However, Kengor is pointing out that Frank Marshall Davis was an admitted Communist.

Obama writes about Frank Marshall Davis in ‘Dreams of my Father’ some 22 times. Obviously Davis’s thinking had an impact on the current president.

Here’s a bit about Davis’s thining, from an op-ed at Catholic Exchange by Paul Kengor:

He blasted big business, Wall Street, big oil, General Motors, “excess profits,” “millionaires” and the “wealthy.”

He called out the “corporation executive” for not paying his “fair” share.

He attacked “GOP” tax cuts that “spare the rich” and “benefit millionaires.”

He advocated wealth redistribution from greedy “corporations” to “health insurance” and “public works projects.”

He described himself as “progressive,” while his detractors accused him of being a communist.

He adopted slogans like “Forward” and “Change.” He wanted to transform America through “fundamental change.”

He was skeptical of preachers and their effect on God-and-gun clinging Americans, and saw the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the state. He argued that Christians should support his ideas and enthusiastically sought the support of the “social justice” Religious Left. Moreover, many people were unclear about his personal religious beliefs, including whether he was a Christian.

Frank Marshall Davis

Who is this man?

If you answered “Barack Obama,” you’re only half right. The answer is Frank Marshall Davis, Hawaii mentor to a young Barack Obama, and Communist Party member 47544.

The same op-ed adds: “Frank Marshall Davis … understood that the one institution standing in the way most strongly was the Roman Catholic Church. ‘The Catholic hierarchy,’ he sneered, had launched a ‘holy war against communism.’ … He would target the Church as an obstacle to his plans to fundamentally change America.”

Why the current administration would deliberately position themselves at odds with the Catholic church in America during an election year simply didn’t make sense to me until now. If the President, and some of th people surrounding the president, has grown up with the message that the Catholic Church is an enemy; what’s happening today with the HHS mandate, among other things, makes sense.

In other words, Obama’s world view has been shaped by people who agreed with the leaders of the Soviet Union that the Catholic Church is an institution to be viewed as a political threat. So, to Obama and others in his administration, taking an aggressive stance against the Catholic community must make sense.