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Obama cites faith as key to change
Boston Globe ^ | July 6, 2008

Posted on 07/06/2008 5:32:40 AM PDT by Zakeet

Barack Obama called "active faith" an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change in a speech yesterday at the national meeting of a black church group.

Stopping for about two hours in St. Louis, the Democratic presidential nominee implored thousands of members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the nation's largest and most politically active black denominations, to help fix national and local ills.

He preached individual responsibility, saying he knew he risked criticism for "blaming the victim" by talking about the need for parents to help children with homework and turn off the television to pass on a healthy self-image to daughters, and teach boys both to respect women and "realize that responsibility does not end at conception."

But Obama's main message was the government's duty to address what he said are "moral problems" - such as war, poverty, joblessness, homelessness, violent streets, and crumbling schools - and to employ religious institutions to do it.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; democrat; obama; religion

Barry wants to do away with the separation of church and state

1 posted on 07/06/2008 5:32:41 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
Obama cites faith as key to change

Black liberation theology or Nation of Islam?

2 posted on 07/06/2008 5:38:15 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Zakeet

“He preached individual responsibility, saying he knew he risked criticism for “blaming the victim” by talking about the need for parents to help children with homework and turn off the television to pass on a healthy self-image to daughters, and teach boys both to respect women and “realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”

Obama thinks saying those things might be considered “blaming the victim”? Those things are just day-to-day choices millions of parents must consider. This guy has a twisted way of looking at most everything.


3 posted on 07/06/2008 5:38:25 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Zakeet; dennisw; sheik yerbouty; Lijahsbubbe
Barack Obama called "active faith" an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change in a speech yesterday at the national meeting of a black church group.

Looks more like a thinly veiled call to jihad.

4 posted on 07/06/2008 5:40:07 AM PDT by Ezekiel
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To: Zakeet
Obama is a first class bullcrapper.

With Obama we higher taxes, more spending, bigger government, a community organizer as CIC, open borders, amnesty for illegals, and promoting the culture of death.

Sounds like a liberal paradise.

5 posted on 07/06/2008 5:40:25 AM PDT by Reagan Man ( McCain Wants My Conservative Vote in November --- EARN IT or NO DEAL !!!)
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To: Zakeet
called "active faith" an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change

Were any on the right to say anything remotely close to this, the left would spot their panties.

Only because BO is transparantly insincere do they remain calm.


6 posted on 07/06/2008 5:44:51 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: Zakeet

“realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”

In Barry’s world, responsibility can end anytime within the first nine months from conception by simply murdering that little nuisance of a child in the womb.


7 posted on 07/06/2008 6:00:54 AM PDT by Be_Politically_Erect (If I didn't think he'd get emotionally attached to it, I'd tell O-bigears to kiss my A** !)
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To: laotzu

Quark probably wouldn’t be happy with this portrayal of commieObama - and it isn’t a good thing to p*** off a capitalist Ferengi.........


8 posted on 07/06/2008 6:04:51 AM PDT by captjanaway
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To: Zakeet

Were he a Republican, the media would be portraying him as a religious fanatic trying to impose his religion on all of us.


9 posted on 07/06/2008 6:04:59 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Zakeet
Obama is a calculating atheist, who sees Black Liberation Theology as a useful vessel for his Marxism.
10 posted on 07/06/2008 6:38:07 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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"Baphomet", btw, is a linguistic corruption of "Mohamet".

Coincidence?

11 posted on 07/06/2008 7:08:16 AM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: Always Right

Black liberation theology or Nation of Islam?

When the chips are down I think he said he would defer to Islam.


12 posted on 07/06/2008 7:34:09 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist radical Muslims in the WH)
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To: Zakeet

faith in gay marriage and late term abortion?


13 posted on 07/06/2008 7:55:25 AM PDT by bluedressman
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To: Zakeet

O’Bama’s amateurish social psychology is tired.


14 posted on 07/06/2008 7:58:01 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: Zakeet

15 posted on 07/06/2008 8:34:45 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Zakeet
He has faith in the black Jesus, the one who was oppressed by the white folks from Rome, and who came to show the way to socialism. That Jesus is also attested in the Koran as a great Prophet, so it fits in well with his theological background.

Of the actual Jesus, he has no faith whatsoever.

16 posted on 07/06/2008 8:41:29 AM PDT by Defiant (Leave it to the Dems to nominate someone so bad I may be forced to vote for McCain.)
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To: Zakeet

Barrack Hussein Obama may soon add mandatory community service to his platform...service to Islam.


17 posted on 07/06/2008 9:03:23 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: Ezekiel

No shi’ite..


18 posted on 07/06/2008 12:12:59 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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