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Obama's spirituality is largely private, but it's influential, advisers say
Washington Post ^ | February 4, 2010 | Anne E. Kornblut

Posted on 02/04/2010 5:50:03 AM PST by Zakeet

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To: hal ogen
Who cares what his religion is?

Throughout the campaign, he and his staff professed that he was a lifelong Christian. Don't know who baptized him, or when as his mother was agnostic, his fathers muslim, and his grandmother a Unitarian.

It matters because he lied to those who "cling to religion".

At least Christopher Hitchens is upfront about his contempt for those who believe in God.

61 posted on 02/04/2010 8:27:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
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To: Smittie
Rules Christianity out, I don’t believe Jesus gives us the option of having a “private” “spirituality.”

2004 Interview: Obama Talks about Jesus, Heaven and Sin June 3, 2008 (CBN Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008)

(GG is God Girl aka Cathleen Falsani) GG: Who’s Jesus to you?

OBAMA: Right. Jesus is a historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.

(excerpt)

GG: What is sin?

OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.


62 posted on 02/04/2010 8:33:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Col Frank Slade
“He prays to his Blackberry ?

>>Evidently.

Well then the truth will out someday, right?

Or did he get the exemption he sought on keeping his crackberry messages OUT of the archive requirements for Presidential communications?

63 posted on 02/04/2010 8:35:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
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To: CitizenUSA
Support for abortion is support for murder.

Obama goes beyond that.

Leaving a baby that survives abortion (and is born alive and no longer connected to the mother) to DIE unattended for HOURS in a hospital utility closet can in no way be called "abortion". It is outright murder by deed and neglect.

64 posted on 02/04/2010 8:38:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
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To: FrankR

He was raised under the wings of Communists as a red diaper doper baby. He takes it on faith that America is the source of all ills in the world.


65 posted on 02/04/2010 8:42:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
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To: Texas resident
Have you seen the post on how the White House has been turned into a shrine to barry?

White House Christmas Tree ornament, 2009.

66 posted on 02/04/2010 8:44:09 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
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To: Friendofgeorge
Don't forget the prop Bible he carried during impeachment.

Right around the time he was seen vacationing with Saint Walter.


67 posted on 02/04/2010 8:49:19 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Don't fall for the Global Warming hysteria.)
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To: Zakeet

This anti-christ is the son of Satan. What a joke talking of ‘civility’. This is an evil man and the Demon party needs to be destroyed and tried for treason for what they are doing to this country.


68 posted on 02/04/2010 9:02:37 AM PST by bushfamfan (United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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To: Zakeet
At other moments, Obama prays privately, his advisers said.

To whom?

69 posted on 02/04/2010 9:18:03 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.)
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To: FateAmenableToChange
This is pure BS and White House PR.

There was a good deal of negative commentary about the fact that the supposedly Christian O hadn't bothered to choose a DC church for regular worship.

This is Axelrod’s response: Call up the WaPo and feed them a story about how “spiritual” the president is in private. It's pure hogwash, and again, the WaPo lends itself to being a tool of the White House.

70 posted on 02/04/2010 9:52:55 AM PST by mojito
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To: a fool in paradise
GG: What is sin?

OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.

Talk about a Messiah complex - that's getting scary. I guess I've committed an unpardonable sin because I'm always out of alignment with Zero's "values."

71 posted on 02/04/2010 9:59:53 AM PST by Smittie
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes, Obama’s faith is a matter of interest, mainly because he made it so, partially by mimicking the cadence and style of a southern tent preacher in his 2004 address to the Democrat convention.

I think that it is curious that little was said about the statements that the Obamas were not celebrating Christmas in Hawaii, nor were they exchanging gifts. No tree, no gifts, in Hawaii, but they had a tree at the White House with pictures of Chairman Mao hanging from the tree.


72 posted on 02/04/2010 10:02:48 AM PST by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: FateAmenableToChange

Karl Marx’s spirituality was also largely private, but influential.


73 posted on 02/04/2010 10:03:52 AM PST by MarkAccord
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To: Eva

He’s said that the kids never get Christmas presents, the whole family gets “one gift” that is decided upon (by Barry and wife?).


74 posted on 02/04/2010 10:11:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: Zakeet
At other moments, Obama prays privately...

One meditative moment....


75 posted on 02/04/2010 10:13:28 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen ("Listen up people, let me be perfectly clear..I inherited the unprecedented, the unexpected.")
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To: Smittie

Indeed. From the Cross, Jesus said that he would praise God in the company of his brethren. Paul tells us not to be ashamed to call out to our brothers and sisters. Mr. Obama’s silence is deafening. As I teach my sons, one should be ashamed to hear the words “I didn’t know you were a Christian.”


76 posted on 02/04/2010 10:16:03 AM PST by naturalized
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To: Zakeet

” sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m ..”

The only way this lazy slob is awake at 5:30 am is if he’s coming in from another of the drunken White House bacchanals.
Kornblut is obviously auditioning to be Barry’s Nina Burleigh .
However , I believe that position has already been filled by Reggie Love.


77 posted on 02/04/2010 10:24:03 AM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: a fool in paradise

That’s not what his wife and kids said before Christmas when they were visiting a school. They said that they were getting their father something very nice.


78 posted on 02/04/2010 12:37:13 PM PST by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: FateAmenableToChange

Blast from the past:

>>We have already seen that Obama prays to HIMSELF:

But he does find time to pray.

“It’s not formal, me getting on my knees,” he says. “I think I have an ongoing conversation with God.... I’m constantly asking myself questions about what I’m doing, why I am doing it.

On the other hand, Obama certainly has a very clear understanding of what it means to be “a Christian:”

His mother, he says, was a Christian.

In his 1993 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Obama describes his mother as “a lonely witness for secular humanism.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article

DG

34 posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:12:26 AM by DoorGunner ( “...and so, all Israel will be saved.”)


79 posted on 02/04/2010 1:35:12 PM PST by DoorGunner ("Rom 11: until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so, all Israel will be saved")
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