Posted on 02/05/2009 8:51:09 AM PST by paltz
President Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast this morning and used the opportunity to discuss the launch of the White House office of faith-based and neighboring partnerships. Obama stressed the inclusion of secular groups into his faith-based office by giving examples of his own life story. Could this office be a conduit for further government funded community organizing? The transcript of video highlights is below.
This is not only our call as people of faith but our duty as citizens of America and our duty as citizens of the world. And it will be the purpose of the White House office of faith-based and neighboring partnerships that I’m announcing later today. The goal of this office will not to be [sic] to be to favor one religious group over another or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.
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He hasn’t said anything he hasn’t said for nearly 10 years (including in 2004 and 2007).
He is a secular humanist and not a Christian (he sees Jesus Christ as a historical figure but not the Savior).
It takes a zaftig dose of “secularism” to staff an entire
“faith based” office with people who advocate abortion.
Oh well, there are a lot of gullible Christians who need to discover what liberation theology is all about. A lot of them voted for 0. Let them get a belly full of being born again Omericans.
Now Normal Lear has a song about being a “Born Again American”.
The new patriotism is the same old Socialist bunk.
Maybe he thinks “Amen” is Christian-ese for “Present”.
bttt
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