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The quiet impact of Obama’s Christian faith
The Washinton Post ^ | 12/22/15 | Greg Jaffe

Posted on 12/23/2015 6:28:57 AM PST by Old Yeller

president Obama was flying over Los Angeles in June as he listened to the first accounts from a courtroom in Charleston, S.C., where family members of nine dead parishioners who were gunned down at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church had just addressed the accused killer.

He heard the words of a daughter who had lost her mother: “May God forgive you. I forgive you.” He heard the words of a daughter who had lost her mother: “May God forgive you. I forgive you.”

He listened to the plea of a mother who had lost her son: “Every fiber in my body hurts . . . but may God have mercy on you.”

The president paused, the thump of the helicopter’s blades filling the otherwise silent cabin. He had planned to tweet some statistics later that day comparing gun violence in the United States and other developed countries, but now he told his staff to cancel that.

Instead, in the Oval Office two days later, he seized upon something that seemed more important to him than any argument about gun control — an idea central to his political identity and his conviction that he could unify the divided nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: christian; husseinobama; muslim; obama
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1 posted on 12/23/2015 6:28:57 AM PST by Old Yeller
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To: Old Yeller

Doesn’t every Christian wear a ring inscripted in Arabic that reads “There is no God, but Allah”?


2 posted on 12/23/2015 6:30:20 AM PST by Old Yeller (Obama is winning the war on terror when you realize he is on the side of the enemy.)
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Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3375677/posts


3 posted on 12/23/2015 6:31:13 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Old Yeller

HOW can these people continue to carry his water? Aarrgghhh!


4 posted on 12/23/2015 6:31:20 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Old Yeller

More bogus reporting from the Post...


5 posted on 12/23/2015 6:31:31 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Old Yeller

Oh please, this is such utter nonsense. He may be religious, he certain isn’t Christian. This is such a shameless propaganda ploy by the Administration.

Where in any of O actions can you see anything that remotely resembles this?

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23.


6 posted on 12/23/2015 6:32:04 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sorry. Did a search on Obama and it didn’t come up.


7 posted on 12/23/2015 6:32:18 AM PST by Old Yeller (Obama is winning the war on terror when you realize he is on the side of the enemy.)
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To: Old Yeller

Moslem, he’s a Moslem


8 posted on 12/23/2015 6:32:48 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: Old Yeller

Forgot “Hurl Alert”.

Dorkbama the Muslim is the lowest form of life in the multiverse.


9 posted on 12/23/2015 6:35:19 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Old Yeller

The Washington P.O.S.t didn’t go quite far enough ... “obama’s Christian faith” ... so “quiet” it doesn’t exist.


10 posted on 12/23/2015 6:37:17 AM PST by glennaro
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To: Old Yeller
Christian faith?

Okay...

5.56mm

11 posted on 12/23/2015 6:38:08 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Old Yeller
Pathetic BS. Lest we forget, here's the video of Obamao talking about his muslim faith with StepOnTopOfUs back in 2008...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw

12 posted on 12/23/2015 6:39:28 AM PST by MCH
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Nothing says Christianity like Black Liberation Theology.


13 posted on 12/23/2015 6:41:04 AM PST by Ancient Man
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To: Old Yeller

Or gloatingly announce that the nation he leads is no longer a Christian nation.


14 posted on 12/23/2015 6:41:41 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Old Yeller

Quite a few people in the comments section talked about Obama being more Christian than any conservative out there.

I cannot think of one thing he has done that could be called Christian other than singing Amazing Grace.

He attends no church, is never seen with a Bible, golfs while soldiers die, and bombs people with drones without nary a glance at intel briefings. Then complains when people do not agree with his evolved views.

But his supporters kept talking about all the Christian killers out there that were running around doing all this killing. Who? Where? When? But they are out there and we need to get the guns out of their hands.


15 posted on 12/23/2015 6:42:11 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy
Quite a few people in the comments section talked about Obama being more Christian than any conservative out there.

Strange how Obots so desperately want to attach the Christian label to Obola but, anybody else?, meh, they're a bunch of right-wing kook clinging to their Bibles and guns.

Ah, well, like they say, if it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.

16 posted on 12/23/2015 6:47:27 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Old Yeller

He is not a Christian. He is an America-hating atheist who uses the power of the presidency to favor muzlimes.


17 posted on 12/23/2015 6:47:28 AM PST by I want the USA back (Patriarchal binary all original-equipment breeder and White-privileged crusader.)
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To: Old Yeller

Obama himself claimed that while he was in “church” that he didn’t listen.


18 posted on 12/23/2015 6:48:14 AM PST by kidd
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To: Old Yeller

This is a real gagger and the oddest thing is that the writer, Greg Jaffe is truly proud of this piece!

In fact, he Tweeted FIVE times about it.

Greg Jaffe - Twitter
19 posted on 12/23/2015 6:52:27 AM PST by onyx
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To: Old Yeller

When I saw that headline I thought I was hallucinating.


20 posted on 12/23/2015 6:55:42 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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