Posted on 04/04/2010 8:45:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama believes that there is little difference in the faiths that people hold. The basis for this, in his own mind, comes from a lack of conviction to his own belief in his own faith, and therefore the assumption is easily transferred to those of other faiths as well.
But lest you think I'm making assertions that aren't well founded, let me back up.
During his time in office, he claims to have replaced participation in a local church with getting little messages sent to him on his blackberry. Evidently God now has an app, and as such can easily fit in his pocket. He still has infamously not found, nor attended a church in the Washington DC area and he is nigh fifteen months into his Presidency.
Digging further on his lack of belief, however, if we are to understand him from his own explanations, the last church he did attend was “pastored” by Dr. Jeremiah Wright. This was the same Afro-centric racist, "brother of the cloth,” that President Obama denounced in his run for Presidency. He denounced him for supposedly beginning to spout a whole new line of racist rhetoric, flat out lies, and distortions that while Obama "attended" faithfully for twenty years, Wright had somehow kept hidden from him. Wright had even kept those core convictions from Obama while Wright was mentoring the young family man, baptizing his two daughters, and acting as a family pastor to the Obamas. Yet if we are to understand Obama correctly, either he had never heard the core convictions of Wright's racism preached from the pulpit, or somehow, in all the meaningful mentoring talks they had engaged in since young Obama moved to Chicago, Wright had avoided discussing them.
I find both hard to believe since there are hours of video tape of Wright screaming the garbage at the top of his lungs.
The President has attempted to be as pragmatic in his approach to faith as he has been towards foreign policy. To be blunt, constantly kicking in Israel's teeth on one hand, while going to the University in Cairo and telling the Muslim world that America shared their values on the other.
Woah big fella--female subjugation, stoning to death women who have been raped, and even female genital mutilation have nothing to do with American values.
And in this week's radio address to the nation, the President did it again. He showed either a lack of sophistication that faiths are all different, or he purposefully intends to make them such, drawing them all into--not the family of God--but the “family of man."
In honesty Obama, wants little of organized faith to be present in today's national culture.
Oh sure getting the little first daughters all decked out in their new Easter dresses and letting them scurry for eggs on the White House lawn is fun and all, but anything more "faith-based" than that and we're going to have problems.
That's why he didn't just not attend a White House National Day of Prayer and Remembrance last year... He canceled it.
Those people of faith are the ones causing all the problems after all.
They don't trust his government schemes because they'd prefer to keep more of their own dollars and be able to give more generously to the missions and causes they believe in.
They don't trust his view of caring for the "least of these" because every time the President attempts to, it creates worsening conditions for those who are the least.
They don't trust his view of what is sacred, because President Obama believes it's somehow moral to allow a born infant to die of starvation on the shelf of a soiled utility closet in a hospital named "Christ."
They don't trust his view of morality because he's desiring to put homosexuals in the same bunks with soldiers they are attracted to.
Yet he seems to think that men lockering with women would be a problem.
They don't trust his judgement because he seems to trust others whose judgement is not even debatable. (Wright, Wallis, Ahmedinejad, Chavez)
He also openly defies the sound judgement of our allies.
Mr. President there is a world of difference between the moral code of Islam, and that of Jews and Christians.
Even the debate between Judaism and Christianity is an important one as the two groups couldn't be more apart on the fundamental understanding of redemption, the Messiah, and what is to come. Your ignorance in attempting to sweep it all together and tie it up in a bow is as pathetic and dishonest as nearly any policy move you've made. (And that's admitting a great deal!)
Finally, towards the end of your radio address this week you claimed that religious faith had been openly practiced in every corner of the world for thousands of years. Mr. President, this simply isn't true. Jews were put to death in the 30's and 40's for identifying their faith and practicing it even in secret. And for the better part of 70 years throughout the Soviet block of nations the same could be said for genuine Christianity. And in many ways this exact persecution continues in Somalia, the Sudan, sub-saharan Africa, and for much of Asia and the middle and far east. So Mr. President your assertions and statements in this week's radio address were either grotesquely ignorant or purposefully dishonest.
Which was it sir?
Did the loon learn anything in college?
I’m beginning to suspect that he really is as dumb as he speaks.
Nah, I don’t suspect it at all...I know.
He’s a Muslim thats why he’s distancing himself from these traditions without coming out and fully admitting it. I’m sure his handler in Saudi Arabia gets it tho.
The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.
And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Rev. Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children.
Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions -- the good and the bad -- of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother -- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world."
-Barack Hussein Obama
Christos Anesti!
Obama is a sick individual and needs a serious mind adjustment.
Amen brother.
speaking of starvation...
Check out the Obama pic at the top of Drudge - he looks skeletal...
The same Jefferson who penned our Declaration of Independence wrote that Jesus "preached philanthropy and universal charity and benevolence," that "a system of morals is presented to us [by Jesus], which, if filled up in the style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man."
He wrote, "His moral doctrines...were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers...and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids" which, Jefferson said, "will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others."
Comparing the Hebrew code which, according to Jefferson, "laid hold of actions only," "He [Jesus] pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head."
That Jefferson cut out the statements which could be directly attributable to Jesus, pasted them into a little book which he kept by his bed and read from them daily, attests to the fact that his political philosphy may have been influenced by what he considered to be the superiority of the "philosophy" of Jesus.
It is unlikely that any person alive today, including the current President, has read the writings of as many of the great philosophers as Jefferson. His talents and abilities were legend. His devotion to liberty and to the ideas essential to liberty were based on simple principles, some of which, undoubtedly, came from his understanding of the basic law underlying all valid human law: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." As Jefferson stated it, "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."
Jefferson seemed to understand that the philosophy capsulated in those ideas has the power to make people in a society more benevolent, more loving, more caring, and more willing to take care of each other voluntarily.
There is a sharp contrast between a philosophy of love and the politics of hate which motivate the radical Islamic terrorists, as well as the radical Left which now spouts its personal hatred in our partisan politics.
He looks outright scary imho.
Obama’s religion is Obama...
Kevin... YOUR president is a muzzie... it makes sense now does it not?
LLS
Kevin... YOUR president is a muzzie... it makes sense now does it not?
LLS
President Obama believes that there is little difference in the faiths that people hold.
9-11 didn’t do much for him I guess.
“did the loon learn anything in college?”
There is no solid evidence that the Bozo loon ever attended college. He was an affirmative action selection and this precluded him doing anything to get a “wall paper degree”.
During that time in his life smoking weed and tossing back MD-20 20 was the extent of his talent.
I thought that the tickets for the Easter Egg hunt were only distributed to public school kids. That private school and homeschool kids were not eligible to receive them.
Where is it that his daughters go to school again?
Obama said he attended Rev. Wright’s church faithfully “every Sunday.”
Yet in an interview on WLS-Radio his biographer from the Washington Post said the “dirty little secret is Obama NEVER attended” and all the reporters knew it (and didn’t call him on it).
We have a secular President that is why he doesn’t go to church. He is just too dishonest to admit it. He is too worried about his image.
Remember, this is the man who complained about the price of arugula at Whole Foods to a bunch of small town Iowans.
Actually, I would slightly beg to differ.. apparently he attended some black Methodist church for Easter. Dunno if he only stayed for the free bread/wine and egg hunt :p
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