Then the 2 candidates will meet onstage briefly before McCain's hour.
McCain is to receive the same questions. Although he will not arrive at the venue until halfway through Barry's hour, he is honor bound not to monitor Barry's answers.
Huh?
“McCain is to receive the same questions. Although he will not arrive at the venue until halfway through Barry’s hour, he is honor bound not to monitor Barry’s answers.” ~ They’reGone2000
Some of the “answers” he will give can be found excerpted & linked below - that is if Obamamessiah can remember what he said in 2006 and not give different ones : )
From the above link scroll down to:
Neo:
Frankly, I think this interview could blow his connection to Evangelicals:
The 2004 “God Factor” Interview Transcript
http://falsani.blogspot.com/2008/04/barack-obama-2004-god-factor-interview.html
It also explains that Trinity UCC was more about street cred than religion.
Aug 13, 2008 - 4:29 pm
Cal Thomas comments on that interview here:
June 16, 2008 9:25:34
OBAMA IS NO JOSHUA By Cal Thomas
http://www.calthomas.com/index.php?news=2288
Barack Obamas presidential campaign plans to strike at the heart of the Republican base by attempting to woo Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics to his side.
The Christian Broadcasting Networks David Brody first broke the story on his blog The Brody File. Obamas campaign for the conservative Christian vote, which has largely gone to the Republican presidential candidate in recent elections, has been dubbed the Joshua Generation Project. Joshua, Moses successor, led the Israelites into the Promised Land. It wasnt the group that fled Egypt in the Exodus, though. They died in the wilderness, lacking faith in Gods promise. It was the next generation that Joshua led into Canaan. Apparently, if we have enough faith in Obama, he will lead us all into a new America, but if we vote for John McCain, we will demonstrate a lack of faith (in Obama) and die in the political badlands.
Obama is better at biblical language and imagery than any Democrat in modern times. He certainly beats Howard Dean, now the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who once offered Job as his favorite New Testament book. This is cynical manipulation of the devout and it is no better when Democrats do it than when Republicans use religious language for partisan advantage.
Obama has declared himself a committed Christian. He can call himself anything he likes, but there are certain markers among the evangelicals he is courting that one must meet in order to qualify for that label.
Some insight into Obamas Christianity comes from an interview he gave in 2004 to Chicago Sun-Times religion editor Cathleen Falsani for her book, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People.
Im rooted in the Christian tradition, said Obama. He then adds something most Christians will see as universalism: I believe 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.
Falsani correctly brings up John 14:6 (and how many journalists would know such a verse, much less ask a question based on it?) in which Jesus says of Himself, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. That sounds exclusive, but Obama says it depends on how this verse is heard. According to Falsani, Obama thinks that all people of faith Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone know the same God. (Her words.)
Evangelicals and serious Catholics might ask if this is so, why did Jesus waste His time coming to Earth, suffering pain, rejection and crucifixion? If there are many ways to God, He might have sent down a spiritual version of table manners and avoided the rest.
Heres Obama telling Falsani, The difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and proselytize. Theres the belief, certainly in some quarters, that if people havent embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior, theyre going to hell. Falsani adds, Obama doesnt believe he, or anyone else, will go to hell. But hes not sure hell be going to heaven, either. Again, that is contrary to what Evangelicals and most Catholics believe.
Heres Obama again: I dont presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. When I tuck in my daughters at night and I feel like Ive been a good father to them, and I see that I am transferring values that I got from my mother and that theyre kind people and that theyre honest people, and theyre curious people, thats a little piece of heaven.
Any first-year seminary student could deconstruct such works salvation and wishful thinking. Obama either hasnt read the Bible, or if he has, doesnt believe it if he embraces such thin theological wisps.
Obama can call himself anything he likes, but .. One cannot deny central tenets of the Christian faith, including the deity and uniqueness of Christ as the sole mediator between God and Man and be a Christian. Such people do have a label applied to them in Scripture. They are called false prophets.
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