Posted on 12/22/2015 12:47:31 PM PST by ghost of stonewall jackson
Obama did not grow up in a religious household and became a practicing Christian as an adult. He has written more extensively about his spiritual awakening than almost any other modern president, addressing it in two books before he was elected to the White House and in more than a dozen speeches since.
His faith had been central to his identity as a new kind of Democrat who would bring civility to the country's political debates by appealing to Republicans through the shared language of their Judeo-Christian values.
With just one year left in his second term, Obama now holds a different distinction: No modern president has had his faith more routinely questioned and disparaged. Recent polls show that 29 percent of Americans and nearly 45 percent of Republicans say he is a Muslim.
He has repeatedly said in recent months that one of his biggest regrets is that he will leave behind a country that has grown more polarized and distrustful during his two terms in the White House. "There's all this goodness and decency and common sense on the ground, and somehow it gets translated into rigid, dogmatic, often mean-spirited politics," Obama said in a recent interview.
To understand why he so deeply believed that he could close that gap and why he largely has been unable to do so, it is essential to understand his faith and how it shapes his politics. That faith also explains why he has not given up.
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What’s more, I am certain this POS is laughing with his pals at this article, knowing with glee the fury this will provoke from everyone not on their knees in front of him.
“When was Obama baptized.”
He wasn’t and the only body and blood he’s received is from Reggie Love.
Where did you find that photo?
Yup. I knew he was an atheist from day one.
THIS “LEWINSKY”
You may have created a new definition for a planted, pro-leftist article : )
If this isn’t the last desperate refuge of a cornered scoundrel, I don’t know what it is. But whatever you call it, if you put it on your roses in the spring, they’ll grow bigger.
I wonder how many Americans are smart enough to associate the image with the San Bernardino shooters.
He is a socialist; his god is government.
He uses whatever faith is convenient for his agenda.
In Chicago he had trouble connecting with with blacks for his community organizing because he wasn’t member of a church.
He shopped around for the church that would best meet his goals.
He may say he’s Christian but God knows his heart and I doubt Obama has been baptized, confessed his sin or follows Jesus.
Just compare how Obama treats his political enemies to how Reagan or Bush treated their political enemies.
Says it all for me. Thou shalt know them by their fruits.
Sentence number one sets the article as pure fantasy.
This crap is beyond lying, misinterpreting, another perspective. It’s has absolutely zero basis in fact, z e r o.
His mother was a communist/socialist atheist. He grew up in an Indonesian Muslim setting, schooled in Islam.
And he supposedly ‘converted’ to Christianity? Not bloody likely.
According to Islam, once a Muslim always a Muslim or death. Have we ever heard an Imam condemn Obama Hussein for bolting from Islam?? No
He’s a Muslim, period.
attending a Christian Church does not a Christian make. Obozo is demonstrably not a Christian. Jesus said; Satan was a murderer from the beginning and is the father of lies. That description fits the obozo more closely than any other that comes to mind.
And I’m pretty sure a Christian wouldn’t use a prayer breakfast to rip apart Christians as he defended Allah.
Somehow they missed the fact that he is rigid progressive ideologue not one that compromises for the good of the country...
If you are not for him, you are against him...
Which means it's OK to use scorch earth policy to bend you to his will...
After all, he's always right...so stop being so stupid and just obey him...
The Holy Bible records God’s instructions to His children that each child is to call no man a fool. Not even a fool.
Thank you for that link.
This is a joke, right?
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