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Obama: Christians who take religion most seriously ‘suspicious of those not like them’
The Washington Times ^ | 10/12/2015 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 10/12/2015 2:28:36 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

In a wide-ranging conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, President Obama suggested that Christians who take their religion the most seriously often adopt an “us versus them” mentality. In the interview, published in the Nov. 5 issue of The New York Review of Books, the president lamented “the fact that here in the United States, sometimes Christian interpretation seems to posit an ‘us versus them,’ and those are sometimes the loudest voices. “But sometimes I think you also get frustrated with kind of the wishy-washy, more liberal versions where anything goes,” Mr. Obama said, referring to Ms. Robinson. “How do you reconcile the idea of faith being really important to you and you caring a lot about taking faith seriously with the fact that, at least in our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously sometimes are also those who are suspicious of those not like them?” Ms. Robinson replied, “I mean, when people are turning in on themselves — and God knows, arming themselves and so on — against the imagined other, they’re not taking their Christianity seriously.” Ms. Robinson went on to say that “Christianity is profoundly counterintuitive — ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’ — which I think properly understood means your neighbor is as worthy of love as you are, not that you’re actually going to be capable of this sort of superhuman feat. But you’re supposed to run against the grain. It’s supposed to be difficult. It’s supposed to be a challenge.”

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To: Williams

Love thy neighbor - YES.

Accept his FRUIT and evil WAYS - NO.


101 posted on 10/12/2015 7:01:01 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Yet Obama is suspicious of religious people who aren’t Muslims.


102 posted on 10/12/2015 7:09:01 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division...~Luke 12:51
103 posted on 10/12/2015 7:21:40 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: Nachum

I know Mr. Obama LIES when he tells black voters that he’s a Christian, that I do.


104 posted on 10/13/2015 3:50:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: knarf

He doesn’t like that Christianity isn’t “democratic” in accepting change like submitting to homofascists (who themselves are intolerant of other worldviews).


105 posted on 10/13/2015 3:54:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: GregNH

The Hindi prisoners are going to have a cow that beef is still served in prisons.

#Fislamicsupremacy


106 posted on 10/13/2015 3:57:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: PGR88

Obama and the Democrats have attempted to hijack Christianity since the Democrats’ loss in 2004. They stated that they would close the ‘God Gap’ in elections by casting their political arguments in religious terms.

According to them, God wants Communism/Socialism.

Forcing man to tithe to government is NOT charity.


107 posted on 10/13/2015 4:02:13 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Some President we have.

Bashes Christian at every opportunity.

Ignores their genocide in the ME by muslim extremist.

Forces Homosexuals & Abortion upon Christians in the workplace.

And no one talks about his muslim, err make that his Christian religion as he had to be reminded.

108 posted on 10/13/2015 6:16:34 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Diogenesis

“Moslem Projection” or Muslim projection ..???

B I N G O !!!!!

WE HAVE A WINNTE


109 posted on 10/14/2015 12:33:50 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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