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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Boy it is really going to be a horrible 16 more months of him.
So sayeth the great uniter.
So true. He has No Clue what Christians believe.
And Muslims are paragons of acceptance and toleration.
Yeah, just go to a HATER CHURCH for 20 years, then not hear anything screamed there 10 times every Sunday.
Dear Barack,
For more credible certification in the field of psychology, please submit 10 more Post Toasties box tops....
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Correct!
Its not up to us, its up to God, and he has given judgement to his son, who described judgement day in Matthew 7.
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If Barry doesn’t worship a moon god by slamming his head on the ground five times a day while reciting Allahoo Snakbar, I’m a blue-eyed baboon with “I’m Not A Waitress” red toenails.
On the other hand, muslims just slaughter anyone not like them.
And that is Obamatollah Obama’s moral equivalency lesson for the day.
Politicians who take progressivism most seriously ‘suspicious of those not like them’
The US is a nation founded on Christian values, so a muslim liar like obama would naturally take offense of anything that isn’t sharia compliant.
Okay rat boy...
How many beheadings?
How many stonings?
How many people lined up shot, and shoved into a mass grave?
How many clitorectomies?
How many hands cut off?
How many women killed for getting raped?
How many children married off before ten years of age?
How many mass bombings?
How many people shot in the name of allah in the U. S.?
How many massive buildings brought down?
How many mosques are networking for terrorism?
How many Europeans are coming here to commit jihad?
How many are coming from the Middle East to do just that?
How many churches are advocating to kill a racial group at will?
How many churches are networking for terrorism?
Rat boy...
That’s all he is, a grown up little rat boy.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Yet Obama could give a rats a@@ about one of his own “Sons” who murdered 9 Christians and forced them to reveal their religion before shooting them in the head..I am counting the days for this Marxist, Commie, Muslim POS to LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE..and then they will have to fumigate it
What an ignorant scumbag!
But he’d never say this about his beloved Muslims.
My Adblock tool works just fine for advertisements. But I do wish someone would create an Obama-block app that would remove any mention of this vile man or any photograph with him in it. I cannot stand the sight or sound of this guy. Even the mention of him in text riles me. My blood pressure rises about 30 points every time I catch a whiff of him.
The clown with the Mickey Mouse ears knows nothing about Christianity, nothing, zilch, zero nada.
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