Yes. Obama is a deeply anti-Christian candidate who attracts the arrogant and smug.
His prying open of that which is holy and beyond his understanding is indeed disturbing.
“Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”
His mockery of the Torah is similar to that of Joe Goebbels. He simply does not understand the Bible and has no desire to.
“Folks haven’t been reading their bibles..”
Obama has taken his arrogance to a whole new level. He thinks he’s Obama, Pontifex Maximus.
“we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
What is he talking about? America has long been a Judeo-Christian nation, with Christian origins, a population that is above 80% Christian, and 40% of the World’s Jews, with excellent relations between the two. Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu populations are each less than 1% of the population of the US.
“Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals do. But in a pluralistic democracy, we have no choice.”
Translation: Evangelicals will have no choice but to accept Obama’s interpretation of the Bible, or else they are not welcome in a democratic society.
“Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality.”
Evangelism is about persuading people to the common reality of Christianity. In a country with separation of church and state, citizens will evangelize each other. He elevates politics above religion.
“...the majority of Catholics practice birth control...”
He goes after Catholics as well...
“It’s the art of the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God’s edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one’s life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing”
“If” God has spoken? Obama is not a Christian. In a democratic country, policy is guided by the people. When the people vote, they are exercising power, and must vote their conscience. Policy will always be decided by what bases one’s life on. Environmentalists and Marxists vote this way. So should Christians.
Amazing...
2 Peter 3:16(NIV)
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Both of you have done a good job of descontructing Obama’s pathological assault on religious views. In the big picture it may not matter that I am a Buddhist but I fully agree with you both about Obama. To my way of thinking he has demonstrated here that he is an extremely dangerous individual with a severe form of malicious narcissism. He is not at all a uniter. His words and actions show him to be deeply divisive and intentionally so.
Looking back with a cooler head, if Obama says he’s a Christian we must take him at his word. In the heat of the moment I angrily attacked him as the typical atheist I that quotes the Old Testament for no other purpose that to mock the Bible. He only sounded like one.
Hes not anti-Christian, just a ultra liberal politician that draws anti-Christian Marxists as supporters.
And that’s enough to deal with.