Posted on 02/05/2008 2:36:19 PM PST by neverdem
During his triumphant campaign in South Carolina, Barack Obama distributed a flyer in which he announced the spiritual dimension of his mission, running as a "committed Christian." This caused a certain amount of consternation on the secular left.
"Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!... We [Americans] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God."
Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent," in Alinsky's words.
Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. I learned that my sins could be redeemed. I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him. And in time, I came to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world and in my own life. 
Committed Christian with a Muslim education and a middle name of Hussein. How nice.
barack hussan obama
Why is it that religion is an asset to a Democrat but a liability to a Republican? Could it be the way the MSM spins it?
The Racism around Obama and his strongest supporters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3qbibh8Mk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB7XkZUIHEQ
Obama Corruption:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjnT4eJJvs&eurl=http://www.obamatruth.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC8BE-2T_k&eurl=http://www.obamatruth.org/
Last heard, he went to a UCC chruch (Unitarians Considering Christ).
It’s okay you see because he is a Democrat.
I found the link below to be very enlightening. I think if we bring this up we will be accused of “Swift Boating” Barak Oprah Obama.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/080115/issues.html?.v=1
Obama worships Huey Newton, not Jehovah.
His religion pamphlet is all a sham.
Now the Big Guy is gonna zap Obama, the thunder clouds are gathering.
May he soon be reduced to toast.
Correction - he is a Marxist who belongs to the Democrat Party.
Liberation theology is marxism at its core.
You’re right.
Obama. Apostate.
Politicians who use God, but also represent those values through actions and in their personal life such as Huckabee people can accept. Those who use this as nothing more than a “slogan” but are pro-choice and pro-gay rights are disingenuous.
Be it, know it, do it. If you just talk the talk like he is, it’s an insult to those who do believe in this. No one expects anyone to be perfect. We live in a fallen world and Christians know this. But those who advocate ideas that run against the most basic core principals of what define Christianity should not use God in their campaign. If he wants the NMBLA and NOW vote, he should not put on this charade as one who believes in Christian principals.
I find it interesting that Obama and the church he belongs to uses preachings to promote a political ideology, more than practicing the religion itself.
Reminds me of another political ideology veiled behind a religious front.......hummmm.....what is the name of that again...????
Yes, in BOTH Christianity and Islam.
Have you seen this video on Obama’s website....at 2:00 minutes into it, the Black Power sign is given.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8199380735463876218
How typical of politicians.
War on Iraq IQ Test
REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT / Trinity Pastor’s Page 23feb03
Take the War on Iraq IQ Test
Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?
1. Q: What percentage of the world’s population does the U.S. have?
A: 6% [correction - 4.8% of world’s population - 6.2 billion vs. 280 million]
2. Q: What percentage of the world’s wealth does the U.S. have?
A: 50% [correction - 22% of global GDP]
3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
A: Saudi Arabia
4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves?
A: Iraq
5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide?
A: $900+ billion
6. Q: How much of this is spent by the U.S.?
A: 50% [explanation - military expenditures for FY2003 may be $460-470 billion including $378.5 billion for the Pentagon, $15.4 billion for nuclear weapons programs, $3.8 billion for foreign military assistance, $1.4 billion for military-related activities of other agencies, $32 billion for military retirement benefits and health care for current employees, $30 billion for the CIA, plus funding for the Homeland Security Department]
7. Q: What percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world, according the UN?
A: 10% (that’s about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund our retaliatory attack on Afghanistan)
8. Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II?
A: 86 million
9. Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons?
A: Since the early 1980’s.
10. Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical & biological weapons on their own?
A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government, along with Britain and private corporations.
11. Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran?
A: No
12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988?
A: 5,000
13. Q: How many western countries condemned this action at the time?
A: 0
14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did America use in Vietnam?
A: 17 million.
15. Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and September 11th terrorist attack?
A: No
16. Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War?
A: 35,000
17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western forces during the Gulf War ?
A: 0
18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U. S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front?
A: 6,000
19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War?
A: 40 tons
20. Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994?
A: 700%
21. Q: How much of Iraq’s military capacity did America claim it had destroyed in 1991?
A: 80%
22. Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self-defense?
A: No
23. Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years ago?
A: No
24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2003? A: 10,000
25. Q: What percentage of these will be children? A: Over 50%
26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq? A: 11 years
27. Q: Were the U.S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: No
28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: 20 million
29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq’s imports and exports?
A: 12 years
30. Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 38
31. Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 131 (that’s an increase of 345%)
32. Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions?
A: 1.5 million
33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997?
A: 750,000
34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq?
A: No
35. Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998?
A:300
36. Q: How many of these inspections had problems?
A:5
37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba’ath Party HQ?
A: Yes
38. Q: Who said that by December 1998, Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern history.
A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.
39. Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq’s post 1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled?
A: 90%
40. Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in?
A: Yes
41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992?
A: Over 65
42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990?
A: 30+
43. Q: How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year?
A:$5 billion
44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
A: 8
45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got?
A: 0
46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got?
A: over 10,000
47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: the US
48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
A: Over 400
49. Q: Has Israel every allowed UN weapon inspections?
A: No
50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements?
A: 42%
51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land?
A: Yes
52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?
A: ????
53. Q: Who said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”?
A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Members of Trinity are asked to think about these things and be prayerful as we sift through the “hype” being poured on by the George Bush-controlled media.
Rev Jeremiah A Wright, Jr.
War on Iraq IQ Test - written by: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, placed the following ‘War on Iraq IQ Test’ on the Trinity “Pastor’s Page” for Sunday, Feb. 23.
Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ (UCC). This branch was formed when Congregationalism split in the 1950s. This church is far left and in addition to the Black Nationalism cited here also promotes favored causes such as feminism and gay rights. Other than the causes mentioned there really is no discernible Christian doctrine. UCCers basically believe that any and all are welcome and may bring any belief system they may have with them. I know about this because I was raised in this church. In recent years membership has declined rapidly because of the church’s lack of conviction. After knowing many people who attend churches in this denomination, it is my estimate that the vast majority do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Obama may have joined in order to list church membership on his resume. Others belong to promote pet causes or just because they were raised in the church. Almost all are liberal democRATS.
With God's Name ~ Quran 49:13 Oh Mankind! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. The best of you, in the sight of God, is the best in conduct. Allah is the best knower, aware.
As Salaam Alaikum, (The Peace of God Be Upon You) and welcome to Muslim Americans for Obama'08.
http://www.muslimsforobama08.com/
“UCCers basically believe that any and all are welcome and may bring any belief system they may have with them. “
Black Value System, which is a code of non-Biblical ethics written by blacks, for blacks.
It encourages blacks to group together and separate from the larger American society by pooling their money, patronizing black-only businesses and backing black leaders. Such racial separatism is strangely at odds with the media’s portrayal of Obama as a uniter who reaches across races.
The code also warns blacks to avoid the white “entrapment of black middle-classness,” suggesting that settling for that kind of “competitive” success will rob blacks of their African identity and keep them “captive” to white culture.
In short, Obama’s “unashamedly black” church preaches the politics of black nationalism. And its dashiki-wearing preacher — who married Obama and his wife and now acts as his personal spiritual adviser — is militantly Afrocentric. “We are an African people,” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright reminds his flock, “and remain true to our native land, the mother continent.”
Which religion is he running on?
Some contemporary Muslim voices on Jesus
Yasser Arafat, addressing a press conference at the United Nations in 1983 called Jesus “the first Palestinian fedayeen who carried his sword” (i.e. he was a freedom fighter for Islam).
Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi, employee of the Palestinian Authority, broadcast live in April 2002 on Palestinian Authority television: “The Jews await the false Jewish messiah, while we await, with Allah’s help... Jesus, peace be upon him. Jesus’s pure hands will murder the false Jewish messiah. Where? In the city of Lod, in Palestine.”
Author Shamim A. Siddiqi of Flushing, New York put the classical position of Islam towards Christianity clearly in a recent letter to Daniel Pipes, New York Post columnist:
“Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad were all prophets of Islam. Islam is the common heritage of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim community of America, and establishing the Kingdom of God is the joint responsibility of all three Abrahamic faiths. Islam was the din (faith, way of life) of both Jews and Christians, who later lost it through human innovations. Now the Muslims want to remind their Jewish and Christian brothers and sisters of their original din [religion]. These are the facts of history.”
This historical negationism — appearing to affirm Christianity and Judaism whilst in fact rejecting and supplanting them — is a lynchpin of Muslim apologetics. What is being affirmed is in fact neither Christianity nor Judaism, but Jesus as a prophet of Islam, Moses as a Muslim etc. This is intended to lead to ‘reversion’ of Christians and Jews to Islam, which is what Siddiqi refers to when he speaks of ‘the joint responsibility’ of Jews and Christians to establish ‘the Kingdom of God’. By this he means that American Christians and Jews should work to establish shari’ah law and the rule of Islam in the United States.
Conclusion
‘Isa (Jesus) of the Qur’an is a product of fable, imagination and ignorance. When Muslims venerate this ‘Isa, they have someone different in mind from the Yeshua or Jesus of the Bible and of history. The ‘Isa of the Qur’an is based on no recognized form of historical evidence, but on fables current in seventh century Arabia.
For most faithful Muslims ‘Isa is the only Jesus they know. But if one accepts this Muslim ‘Jesus’, then one also accepts the Qur’an: one accepts Islam. Belief in this ‘Isa is won at the cost of the libel that Jews and Christians have corrupted their scriptures, a charge that is without historical support. Belief in this ‘Isa implies that much of Christian and Jewish history is in fact Islamic history.
The Jesus of the gospels is the base upon which Christianity developed. By Islamicizing him, and making of him a Muslim prophet who preached the Qur’an, Islam destroys Christianity and takes over all its history. It does the same to Judaism.
In the end times as described by Muhammad, ‘Isa becomes a warrior who will return with his sword and lance. He will destroy the Christian religion and make Islam the only religion in all the world. Finally at the last judgement he will condemn Christians to hell for believing in the crucifixion and the incarnation.
This final act of the Muslim ‘Isa reflects Islam’s apologetic strategy in relation to Christianity, which is to deny the Yeshua of history, and replace him with a facsimile of Muhammad, so that nothing remains but Islam.
“The Muslim supersessionist current claims that the whole biblical history of Israel and Christianity is Islamic history, that all the Prophets, Kings of Israel and Judea, and Jesus were Muslims. That the People of the Book should dare to challenge this statement is intolerable arrogance for an Islamic theologian. Jews and Christians are thus deprived of their Holy Scriptures and of their salvific value.”
— Bat Ye’or in Islam and Dhimmitude: where civilizations collide, p.370.
http://www.answering-islam.org/Intro/islamic_jesus.html
I didn’t know he was a Christian. Maybe I will vote for him over McCain.
Funny how they only talk about their religion during election years.
“Which religion is he running on?”
The real question is; What churches will be legal in the US of A after he is elected?
I hardly regard Obama’s Church and Minister as “Christian” in their Afro-Centric Racist positions — and their naming of Farrakhan as their “Man of the Year”....
If the RNC doesn’t go after the lack of any commendable background and the vast array of very questionable background — the Nation will be ill served for fear of violating insane P.C. rules which spook folks into ignoring that which is right before them: Incompetence and black racism...
NO ONE has asked Obama what SPECIFIC “changes” he’s hawking and HOW he will implement them....
The man is an empty suit -— promising the sleeves out of his vest and wanting to take your entire suit...
Just wow. And I already knew Wright was an anti-Israel, anti-white, anti-American friend of Farrakhan.
When he is a Muslim in Indonesia, he is called Barry Soetero.
Who the deuce is he?
Not just any church, but a huge black nationalist church with a pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who unabashedly preaches a "black" gospel. Rolling Stone Magazine ran with a story on Obama and his church, entitled, "Destiny's Child," which included this exert from one of Rev. Wright's sermons:
"Fact number one: We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he intones.
"Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!"
"We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!"
The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: "And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS S**T!"
This doesn't sound like any church in which I've ever worshipped, but perhaps I have led a sheltered life. Reverend Wright, whom Obama called his spiritual mentor and still claims is his sounding board, has taken trips abroad with none other than Louis Farrakhan. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan received the "Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright,Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer" Award at the 2007 Trumpet Gala at the the United Church of Christ. Wright was even reported to be a former Muslim. One might be led to wonder if this "church" isn't all it makes itself out to be.
You can listen to the 'sermon' by choosing the second message 'Rev. Wright's Message' - it's number two on the Menu -Video Link.
LOL.
I say we should not give him the chance.
Meanwhile the MSM has turned its face and eyes away from Kenya, like the all pervading eye of Sauron in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.LOL.
We hobbits here in the shire have our work cut out for us.
Thanks for this link. I recently read similar points and was(foolishly) astounded by the lack of media attention to the very serious issue highlighted in this article.
Mr. Obama is a member of a Church whose leader preaches ‘we are an African people...and ...remain true to our native land, the mother continent’. Thus, I believe it is valid to ask Mr. Obama not only about the above but also about some of the comments in his own book regarding black and white peoples.
It would be truly wonderful to hear ALL candidates pledge to dispense with using hypenated nationalities. Perhaps if our Officials and media would stop referring to Asian-Americans, African-American, Irish-Americans but, rather, just use AMERICANS....which is what we ARE and should be...perhaps, we can then address ISSUES to make America a better place for ALL. well...i can dream....
Its liberal socialist, black nationalist fascism in its birthing stages. Its buoyed by liberal prognostications of "tolerance," using the social mechanism of political correctness. Criticize Obama on his merits and you become a "racist." What a laugh. If Obama were a white boy, he would be laughed out of every town he visits. I unabashedly , on Obama's merits, call it the Mandingo ( from the novel by that name) Effect.
If Obama becomes president, you can bet there will be civil disorder in America, with guns in the streets, just like Kenya. But Americans don't use machetes. Obama will have absolutely no hesitation to use federal police and even our military against American citizens who resist his policies to build a black nationalist Utopia.
I wish Colin Powell had offered to run. Theres a man with his ducks in a row. He would make Obama look like a tiny tot.
Both of them are clowns about to create their own three ring circus in American politics.
Bring in the clowns!
Fascist clowns at that.
Why is Islam giving him a pass when they try murdering anyone else who breaks free from its clutches?
See post 41 just below yours
“The Trojan Horse”
They would definitely put the screws to him if he is elected President.
President Salman Hussein Rushdie
His speech will consist of Satanic verses..
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