Posted on 04/13/2009 6:21:11 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Barack Obama devoted his Saturday weekly address to Passover and Easter greetings to Jews and Christians.
That was nice.
But listen to what he said.
"These are two very different holidays with their own very different traditions," he explained. "But it seems fitting that we mark them both during the same week. For, in a larger sense, they are both moments of reflection and renewal. They are both occasions to think more deeply about the obligations we have to ourselves and the obligations we have to one another, no matter who we are, where we come from, or what faith we practice."
What immediately struck me about this statement was Obama's apparent misunderstanding about the two holidays being from very different traditions and the suggestion that they fall in the same week by random chance.
Does Obama, a self-professing Christian, not recognize the connection between them?
The Hebrew rabbi Yeshua, whose Greek name, Jesus, is more familiar to Christians, was crucified on Passover and rose from the dead three days later. That's why Passover and His Resurrection are marked in such close proximity.
Easter is a very bad name for the Christian holiday, since its roots are in paganism. And, unfortunately, many of the traditional trappings of the holiday also have the pagan practices.
Yet, the celebration of the Resurrection of the Son of God is certainly the most important holiday on the calendars of Christians worldwide – even if they often mark it on the wrong day and date.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I guess "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright never covered this topic in between "governments lie" and "gives them the drugs."
Maybe we should all buy him Bibles and bombard the White House with them.
Obama missed the third sermon in Wright’s series:
1. Bush Lied
2. People Died
3. Christ was Crucified
20 years of sitting in church and this is what he learns.
Was he ever able to find a church in DC in time for Easter?
Sheeesh....
“Maybe we should all buy him Bibles and bombard the White House with them.”
That is actually a brilliant idea. Now if only he would actually read one of them.
My goodness. If Obie only knew how the two are so interconnected.
He didn’t “learn” the 2 holidays are different, he made it up in order to concoct a political statement. Check out my tag line.
He didn’t “learn” the 2 holidays are different, he made it up in order to concoct a political statement. Check out my tag line.
Because if, God forbid, Christians actually did what Christ commanded, they might actually figure out we worship the same God as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did.
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What an odd thing to say.
1) Why would God forbid Christians to do what Christ commanded?
2) Which actual Christian denominations do not see the God of Abraham as their own God?
The Rev Wright never got around to the “Jesus thing” in his sermons about hating whitey.
“How does one not make the connection between the Paschal lamb, and the lamb slaughtered for Holy Sacrifice?
My goodness. If Obie only knew how the two are so interconnected.”
Hussein spent 20 years listening to “Rev Wrong’s” weekly anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-military, Racist diatribes so “Obie” was never told “how the two are so interconnected”. And between the 20 years of “Rev. Wrong” and the years of Communist/Leftist/Socialist indoctrinations that he & most students in American colleges & universities have been exposed to over the past 40 years; I’m not surprised by anything that Hussein does or doesn’t say or think!
That told me all I need to know.
yep...talk about a “Freudian slip.”
Funny how the media didn't pick up on that. /Sarc.
Have a blessed day. Off to work.
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