Posted on 11/20/2010 3:15:06 AM PST by jspeelman
By J.J. Speelman
It should come as no surprise that many Americans question the religious beliefs of President Obama. One only needs to look at his approach to foreign policy and his attitude toward the American way of life to find that it is consistent with the anti-American sentiment that is so prevalent among many Muslims.
“Is Obama a Muslim?” Headlines ask. Is the question appropriate? I believe it is. Obama has fueled this question by bowing to foreign Muslim leaders, apologizing to dictators for America’s “arrogance,” dhimmitude in the healthcare bill, and his refusal to answer questions truthfully regarding Islam.
The truth is, Obama is not a Muslim. “I am a Christian,” he states. In fact, the President is being honest, at least in his mind, that he is rooted in the Christian faith. However, Obama sees Christianity through a distorted and arguably racist worldview called black liberation theology.
The Reverend James Cone is the founder of black liberation theology, which has its roots in the 60′s civil rights movement. “Cone explains that at the core of black liberation theology is an effort — in a white-dominated society, in which black has been defined as evil — to make the gospel relevant to the life and struggles of American blacks, and to help black people learn to love themselves. It’s an attempt, he says, ‘to teach people how to be both unapologetically black and Christian at the same time.’” (NPR)
This view serves as an oxymoron. One cannot be Christian and divisive at the same time. Any God-fearing Christian would quote the bible, which doesn’t divide, but instead attempts to love one another and stand together in Jesus Christ.
Believers of black liberation theology, such as Obama, often attend “black separatist churches” that seemingly put their race before God’s commandments. With respect to the truth, it works both ways, as some Ku Klux Klan members also consider themselves Christian.
Supposedly, inspired by the civil rights movement of the sixties, black liberation theology has distorted the very substance of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King stood for equality based on the “content of one’s character.” King’s presence modeled effective communication through non-violent protests. Absent from King’s movement was the anti-white/Jewish rhetoric that is so prevalent with today’s so-called black leaders and their embrace of black liberation theology.
This ideology, which is said by its practitioners to be rooted in Christianity, actually defies it. Are they really Christians? Or are they hiding behind the faith in an effort to steer the American way of life toward race-based initiatives and/or black supremacy? The “Reverend” James Cone? The “Reverend” Al Sharpton? The “Reverend” Jesse Jackson? The “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright? These are men known as racial demagogues at worst, and controversial at best. Yet, all the race baiting seems to happen under the banner of Christianity while standing side by side with Muslims. As stated earlier, Obama has aligned with Muslims in both his foreign and domestic policies.
So Obama is being truthful, in his mind, when he says he is a “Christian.” More accurately, Obama is a black liberation theologian who was inspired by his pastor and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright. What did he learn? The following are snippets of Wright’s sermons:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no. Not ‘God Bless America,’ God damn America. It’s in the Bible. We’re killing innocent people. The government lied. The government lied.”
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” (2003)
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!… We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
“Barrack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary would never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
“The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”
This is the man that married President Obama to his wife, baptized his children, inspired his book, and was his spiritual mentor for twenty years. Obama has adopted a flawed ideology from a man and movement which hates what America stands for. Black liberation here in America was born under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln and at the expense of 500,000 American lives.
Oppression of blacks ceased with the civil rights movement inspired by a great man’s dream and the American people’s desire to live it out.
President Obama refuses to accept and embrace the goodness of this nation – the greatest republic in the history of the world. Instead, this President follows the mindset of hate mongers who promulgate their lies in an effort to hurt this country.
Is Obama a Muslim? No, I don’t believe that he is. Is he a Christian? Certainly not. The real question is: What is this President’s intent for this country?
J.J. Speelman is a conservative writer and blogger. He can be reached at JJSpeelman@aol.com.
I can’t be the judge of Obama’s fellowship with God in his heart, but sometimes actions and words can be a dead giveaway of what a person’s heart is really filled with, I guess Obama will find out when he meets his Maker.
Obama should burn a Koran in front of the Whitehouse while eating a ham sandwich which he shares with his dog.
To believe otherwise, you have to disregard several undeniable matters of record. Some of them are squarely in the public eye, some are not. Taken together, O's muslimaniacity is completely certain.
I agree with the writer. Hussein is neither fish nor fowl.
Does he observe the “Five Pillars of Islam?” I can’t tell that he does. He professed Islam as a boy but has lapsed, which in Muslim eyes should rate him “kafir” status. By not being observant and by calling himself a Christian, he brands himself an apostate and an infidel.
Is he sympathetic to Muslims? Oh, yeah! The same way I sympathize with and support Israel. But that doesn’t make me Jewish any more than Hussein’s attitudes and feelings make him Muslim.
As for the “Christian” assertion he makes-—we’ve all seen the fruits. His idea of Christianity seems to line up with that of the National Council of Churches, i.e. humanism with a religious label slapped on. He doesn’t attend church, sat under a hateful “pastor” for 20 years, makes a mockery of Christmas observance, and he SEEMS not to be raising his daughters in the faith.
The weight of evidence points to “self-worshipping narcissist” and little more.
I agree with another that I cannot judge Obama’s standing with God,his Creator.I can and do judge the fruits of that tree visible for all to see. And the handwriting on the wall reads Mene Mene...For it is written how if a man is ashamed of Jesus in this world He will be ashamed of us before His Father.
(Daniel 5:25; and see Luke 9 :26) If a man will drop the Name of Jesus from an Easter Message-or delete written reference to “their Creator” from the Declaration of Independence.
IF he refuses to honor Veterans with any reply when they ask for intervention and the right for their voice be heard in Court debating the Mojave Cross Memorial. I cannot call him a man wholoves Jesus as a Son of God and obeys.
The best prrof that Obama is not a Christian: The media is never bashing him for being one.
As to the last question asked by the posted article— I would speculate his intention for America is our destruction—our
punishment—and our removal from th e world stage as a superpower.Even as I cannot see him as a friend of god— I cannot see him as a friend to this Country but as a clear and present danger-a domestic enemy to both our US Constitution and to our way of life; were I a military Officer It would be my solemn duty to honor the Oath and the Code of Conduct and
to oppose him with every asset at every opportunity. for he is the enemy spoken of in the Oath taken.
Obama is a Christian just like:
1) Rosie O’Donnel is skinny
2) Jenna Jameson is a virgin
3) Helen Thomas is a playboy centerfold.
4) Spock was a Klingon
5) OJ was innocent
6) the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor
7) Ringo being the most talented Beatle
8) Bill Clinton exercising self control in the Bunny Ranch
9) Eric Cartman befriending Butters
10) Hollywood being conservative
I HAVE seen a number of times when he donned Muslim type garb and joined in their prayers, with statements that he also got the words right.
Good ones, all.
has 0bama, or his children,
been baptized?
Obama is neither Christian of Muslim.
He believe he is god.
As for the “Christian” assertion he makes-—we’ve all seen the fruits.Indeed!!
'Beware of false prophets who come to you disguised as sheep but underneath are ravenous wolves. You will be able to tell them by their fruits. Can people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? --Matthew 7:15-16
YEs, and one of the few Christians that studied the Koran while a child in Indonesia.
I see his alignment with anti-US muslims as being more that he agrees with their ideas that the US is the Great Satan and must be cut down to size as opposed to agreeing with their religious ideology.
God will not be mocked.
This is the insight of the day. Excellent!!
Yeh he’s a Muzzie.
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