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, theyre 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 youre actually going to be capable of this sort of superhuman feat. But youre supposed to run against the grain. Its supposed to be difficult. Its supposed to be a challenge.
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Love thy neighbor - YES.
Accept his FRUIT and evil WAYS - NO.
Yet Obama is suspicious of religious people who aren’t Muslims.
I know Mr. Obama LIES when he tells black voters that he’s a Christian, that I do.
He doesn’t like that Christianity isn’t “democratic” in accepting change like submitting to homofascists (who themselves are intolerant of other worldviews).
The Hindi prisoners are going to have a cow that beef is still served in prisons.
#Fislamicsupremacy
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.
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.
“Moslem Projection” or Muslim projection ..???
B I N G O !!!!!
WE HAVE A WINNTE
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