While I agree with much of the social analysis in the article I don't buy in to this statement. I think Obama claimed to be a Christian and attended an uber-liberal "christian" church merely for the social and political benifits he thought it would bring. I think he is a cultural muslim and practical atheist. Merely my opinion.
For what it is worth, my parish priest thinks the exact same thing.
I concur with your opinion. I think that in these days the love of many will cool and there will be, there is currently, a great falling away.
I recommend reading Jonathan Edwards, starting with, perhaps,”Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Obama’s “religion” isn’t defined as much by what it is as by what he’s against - real Biblical Christianity.
OBAMA’S CHURCH: GOSPEL OF HATE
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
April 07, 2008
The racist heresy of Black Liberation Theology.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30508
In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to “Black Liberation Theology”...
Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of “salvation” in the afterlife is superseded by “liberation” on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
Obama’s brand of religion is “ Black Marxist Liberation Theology.”
THE REAL STORY BEHIND REV. WRIGHT’S CONTROVERSIAL “ BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY” DOCTRINE.
FoxNews/Hannity’s America
airdate May 2, 2008]
(some key excerpts)
[”(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro’s first wife.”
JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: “Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980’s was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That’s it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-’80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That’s all I know. I was there.
I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about ‘the evil empire’ which was the United States of America.”
REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: “it’s based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright’s] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That’s very, very dangerous.”
SCHENCK: “I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point.”
Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright’s Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
He is no believer, to be sure. However, he sent out an email to his “Christian” followers, letting them know he needed their support because we fanatical/radical/extremist Christians were saying he was not a believer, that his actions didn’t line up with Biblical principles. BooHoo, and so on. My sister, an Obama supporter, believes in him, believes he is misjudged and that we are going to be judged for not believing in him (Obama). We already know how he was coached in christian terminology so he could get his answers right. We know by the fruit of his works that he is not a true believer!