Posted on 02/11/2007 6:04:01 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
That's the way I took it.
The author from the article didn't get an Obama quote but she wrote:
"That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me," is heard."
- April 5, 2004 -
And how does the 5 Percenters church attendance correlate with his political career?
He better start taking it more seriously than this twaddle.
They're racist; he's (barrack) is racist, allright.
They're racist and have declared war on America.
"I take my Christian faith seriously."
Who cares? He's not running for neighbor. He's running for president.
He didn't. As a matter of fact He was quite clear.
Bump!
Who cares? He's not running for neighbor. He's running for president.
Christians will take that sort of talk seriously. Believe it or not, Christians can actually still vote in the U.S.
I Take Christian Faith Seriously
What he actually said:
"If your name is Barack Hussein Obama, you can expect it, some of that. I think the majority of voters know that I'm a member of the United Church of Christ, and that I take my faith seriously," Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.
He never said he took his Christian faith seriously. He made two separate statements and never said that he was a Christian.
He's GOOD...at the word parsing thing.
What Obama says:
"So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues. "I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people."
What the Word of God says:
John 14:6 (New International Version)
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Proverbs 14:12 (New International Version)
"There is a way that seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death."
member of the United Church of Christ.....ole osamabama believes it cool to kill children before they are born, no problem with it at all. What a scumsucker. Abortion has done to blacks worse than slavery and the KKK put together.
Gotta hand it to this "Scoop" Jackson, though, for how cleverly he implies that Obama's otherwise nameless faith as a member of the United Church of Christ is somehow connected to consensually accepted Christianity.
There's enough parsing-room here for any number of interpretations, all of them doubtless legally defensible -- and none of them the least bit reassuring.
Another example of the double standard in this country. Only Democrats are allowed to discuss Christianity.
NO HAT, NO CATTLE.
There, that fixed it.....
Yes, unfortunately, many of them will. Politically speaking, that's a highway to hell, for serious Christians and for all other American patriots. Personally, I do not care to be held hostage to the incredible naivete and confusion that many "Christians" are guilty of!!!!!
I don't say "who cares" in the sense that Obamessiah's "Christian" spin is ineffective. I mean it in the sense that no intelligent person SHOULD care -- not enough to either vote for him or like him, anyway.
"I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place.
- April 5, 2004 -
"Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
- John 14:5-6 -
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