Barack Obama and Governor Palin in T-Shirt

In response to Republican criticism of Obama's experience, that as a community organizer, such experience is inadequate for the presidency of the United States, and also in response to John McCain's choice of the governor of Alaska as vice-presidential candidate, the Obama campaign is distributing T-shirts with the slogan: "Jesus was a community organizer. Pilate was a governor."

Why take a parallelism from Jesus and the gospels? It seems like there is a cult like character to the Obama campaign. The inanity of this comparison should be obvious.