Ezekiel 25:17
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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Thank you for that. Outstanding!
I have always said Obama is demonically driven and everything he does is a reflection of that.
What really bothers me more than anything is the lack of discernment among so many. They cannot detect even a sliver of “something’s not right” with this man. It’s really disturbing and disgusting.
Political correctness was designed by the Communists after the Russian Revolution to control the narrative. It has worked. Rational/critical thinking is foreign to most people. And one of the results is that this evil man is accepted as normal by so many
Mommy was most likely raped by his dad who came from a long line of rapists and thrown out of one school for it.
Pray America wakes
His chickens coming home to roost has done picked his brain cavity clean.
Ezekiel 25:17
Better yet: a dirt nap into perpetuity.
This narcissistic feller is too caught up in his own ways to relate to anyone half-way normal. And he leads our country ...
The whole interview is drivel. No maam, you really are supposed to love thy neighbor.
He's trying to stir up his mob of crazed mini-mes even more.
Prisoners have a beef after pork chopped from federal prison menus
If I say what I am thinking, I will sound just as nasty as that imposter in our White House....
Our grandparents would never have voted it in. They surely wouldn't have voted for a Heinrich Adolph Doenitz or Isoroku Hideki Suzuki in 1944. Or an acquaintance of someone like Bill Ayers. Or a man that bad-mouthed the Holy Bible.
my prayer too......you just said it nicer...sigh.
Greg, you’re right on track.
It was everyone’s first thought.
And second thought...
I’m always suspicious of people who want to kill me.
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Likely.
The “other” isn’t imagined, Barry. And you are part of that “other”.
I’m sick of these d-bag remarks, the final 15 months are gonna be long ones.
Egyptians without heads weren’t suspicious enough.
THIS from a sitting President of the US.
How hateful.
He’s the one with the ‘typical White person’ comment.
Clock is off by 12 hours, term ends at noon.
AMEN!
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