Posted on 01/07/2010 4:18:59 PM PST by opentalk
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The increasingly notorious lack of church involvement or public religious observance by the United State's First Family has led one Christian organization to question the level of dedication President Obama truly feels to the religious identity that once lent such appeal to his campaign image.
After attending church regularly during the 2008 Presidential campaign, Obama has not attended church on a regular basis since being elected President and has yet to find a church home. Obama, while vacationing in Hawaii over Christmastime, failed to attend any religious services with his family; neither did he attend during Christmas in 2008 as president-elect.
Yet as a candidate, Obama made his Christian faith and involvement in a local church community a central component of his campaign - an image widely believed to have attracted key votes that would otherwise have opposed his liberal policies. Several Christian pastors, such as Houston megachurch pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, helped bolster the campaign talking point that Obama's social policies hewed closer to Christian doctrine than his critics allowed.
Douglas Kmiec, the Pepperdine University law professor who drew immense criticism from Catholic circles for actively campaigning on Obama's behalf, had argued that his trust in the pro-abortion candidate stemmed from his apparent commitment to Christianity.
"When, in a meeting of faith leaders in Chicago, Obama told me that his community work years before, helping the displaced and the unemployed, left him empty until he knelt before the Cross, I believed him," wrote Kmiec in a January 2009 Commonweal op-ed defending against his critics. "No politics or philosophy or relationship is launched well when faith is missing; and I did not (and do not) doubt the genuineness of Obama’s Christian faith commitment."
Since his election, Christian watchdogs have grown increasingly agitated by the apparent lack of, and even disregard for, Christian sensitivities in the White House. Some examples include:
-Per White House request, Georgetown University in April covered up a white cross and a symbol for the name of Jesus that would have appeared over Obama's head at a speech.
- The President declined publicly to celebrate the National Day of Prayer at the White House - yet hosted a large bash for Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in June, and recognized the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at the White House.
- While matter-of-factly noting that George Washington recognized Thanksgiving as celebrating "the many and signal favors of Almighty God," Obama's Thanksgiving proclamation was the first in U.S. history to exhort celebration of the holiday without actually acknowledging the existence of God or Divine Providence.
- For the first time in 43 years, the Obama Administration banned a military flyover at a "God and Country Rally" in Nampa, Idaho.
- On a White House Christmas tree, the President asked that no religious ornaments be displayed - yet, ironically, reportedly allowed an ornament displaying the image of Chinese dictator and mass murderer Mao Tse Tung.
"The issue is not whether a President has to attend church on a regular basis to be an effective President. They do not," commented Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Washington, D.C. based Christian Defense Coalition. "The issue is one of integrity and honesty.
"To portray yourself as person of deep Christian faith and very involved in the life of the local church during the campaign and then abandon that position after you are elected reduces faith to a commodity and religion to a political tool."
Mahoney noted that the White House admits that President Obama and his family have not settled in one church community in Washington, D.C. because they want to avoid becoming a "disruptive factor for the local church."
"This is a completely disingenuous and misleading argument," said Mahoney. "The overwhelming majority of churches in the Washington would love to have the President and his family attend their church and would welcome them with open arms.
"Simply stated; Mr. President if your Christian faith and involvement with a local church means as much to you as you say it does please find a vibrant local community for you and your family to worship Christ."
If he is not Mohammedan he certainly sympathizes with them.
If he is not Mohammedan he certainly sympathizes with them.
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If Zero is a Marxist, he is then indeed an athiest. And not the kind like Krauthammer, who denies God for intellectual reasons (and yet sides with Christian pro-lifers for common ethical reasons - there’s hope for Charles). More like the kind that shakes an angry fist toward heaven, shouting “No, God!”.
Hussain is a Christian the same way Joe Stalin was a Christian.
Obamao is a fraud. There’s not much point in qualifying that with “Christian.” No real Christian is going to spend any time in a liberation church. Liberation theology, or Marxism dressed up as religion, is at odds with the teachings of Christ. I doubt that Obamao is a Muslim, other than to the extent that it might give him a little street credit with the militant brothers and his family. He is too Marxist and too narcissistic to lower himself to God. He saves that for foreign dignitaries and opportunities to belittle the US. ...My guess is that the spirits or spirits dwelling in Obamao aren’t comfortable in the presence of genuine Christians.
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He said Islam paved the way for the Renaissance and the Enligtenment. The Freak really said that. He is either evil or the most ignorant person (and this is saying a lot) that ever got near the oval office.
Was “Hussein” a common American Christian name in Hawaii in 1961? Just askin...
The man was exposed to Islam at an early age. I can find no such exposure to the Christian faith when he returned to the USA. I believe that his church going in Chicago was for political reasons. The type of minister of the church and what the minister preached tells wonders about this President. So why should anyone be surprised about a lack of Christian content at the White House during the Christmas Season.
But seriously folks, the kenyan’s not a Christian as far as I can tell, but fortunately it’s not my call who’s in or out of the Lamb’s book of life.
Here’s Bruck’s take: Zero’s probably not a Christian, and probably not a Muslim either; more likely he’s a typical post-modern self-worshipper. This is why the Gen-Xers and younger voted for him in droves—he’s one of them.
As for his erstwhile allusions to Christianity, keep in mind there are a great many young people who claim Christ, but due to their secular education and upbringing are liberal humanists, and really, really want to vote dem. All they need is the finest sliver of evidence that their candidate is a Christian, or at least in some way upholds Christian values, to justify themselves among their Christian friends and families. Zero happily provided this scant evidence, knowing that that’s all they needed.
Where’s the Baptismal Certificate?
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Read the sections, ‘Religion’ and ‘Islam’.
The evidence is overwhelming.
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