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Obamas seek new church as Easter nears
The Washington Times ^ | 4/9/2009 | Cristina Bellantoni, Joeseph Curl

Posted on 04/09/2009 8:01:09 AM PDT by mort56

With Easter four days away, the Great Church Search is on for the Obamas, who are seeking a presidential place of worship in Washington nearly a year after a divisive break from their Chicago church and the incendiary sermons of its controversial pastor.

White House aides and close friends of the family have been quietly checking out D.C. churches on a shortlist - maybe a dozen in all - and attending services, speaking with pastors, reverends and rectors and reporting back to the Obamas, said one White House source familiar with the search.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antichrist; bho44; church; culturewar; deceiver; easter; first100days; godgap; government; lyingliar; obama; obamaandgod; phoneychristian; religion; religiousleft
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To: Red_Devil 232

Maybe it is like when the Kings of old had food tasters - Obama sends one of his evil followers into a church and if they don’t burst into flames on the spot, he figures God isn’t really watching that particular building very closely...


21 posted on 04/09/2009 8:11:16 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (He bows to the Saudi King - we don't have Camelot, we have Camel Lot)
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To: The_Reader_David

too many rich white people


22 posted on 04/09/2009 8:11:24 AM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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To: a fool in paradise

oh please

has Jeremiah Wright ever baptized anyone? If so I wonder undwer what terminology...


23 posted on 04/09/2009 8:12:33 AM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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To: mort56
You guys are being too pushy. Obama says he prays to himself every night. Must be hard to find a Church of Obama but I'm sure he will find one or seize one sooner or later. Just keep an open mind and don't be so negative.
24 posted on 04/09/2009 8:13:36 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
There’s no “kill whitey” churches in DC?

Lot's of them. They don't poll well, though.

Obama is looking for a liberal church, but not too obnoxiously liberal. He wants one is relatively bland, where videos of the sermon won't scare anyone. With the recent bowing fiasco, he doesn't want a church with a foreign heiarchy which might bring up questions of his national loyalty (there goes Catholic). No strong opinions on other religions are allowed, so many Baptist churches are out. Are there any really dull Episopal churches near the White House?

25 posted on 04/09/2009 8:14:00 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: Diogenesis
Aren’t all the mosques working out?

Evidently, Mister Obama might be more comfortable in a mosque.

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26 posted on 04/09/2009 8:14:49 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: silverleaf
has Jeremiah Wright ever baptized anyone? If so I wonder undwer what terminology...

Well, Obama's two daughters, but Obama really wasn't paying attention to the ceremony. I think he was out to get iced tea for part of it.

27 posted on 04/09/2009 8:15:23 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: KarlInOhio

the baptism of the obama children is hearsay (part of the crafted image), just as I suspect is the baptism of zerO himself


28 posted on 04/09/2009 8:16:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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To: mort56

Probably looking for one with dozens of lightning rods on top.


29 posted on 04/09/2009 8:17:34 AM PDT by budwiesest (Lead, follow, or get the h... out of the way.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Scientology?


30 posted on 04/09/2009 8:18:15 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: mort56

Easter means nothing to the muslim at 1600.


31 posted on 04/09/2009 8:19:24 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Mr. Mojo

Rev Manning would point out “the One” and call him a long-legged mac daddy.


32 posted on 04/09/2009 8:23:29 AM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
His campaign staff lied during the campaign and said he's ALWAYS been a Christian. His mother was agnostic. His fathers were semi-non-observant muslims.

"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies," Obama wrote. "My mother wasn't overly concerned. 'Be respectful,' she'd say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words."

I doubt that either of his parents had him baptized as a Christian seeing as neither of them were. I doubt that his Unitarian grandmother had him baptized as a Christian as well.

He's said that it was the former muslim Jeremiah Wright who brought him to Christ. I'd like to know if Jeremiah baptised Barack and also what was it that brought Jeremiah Wright to give up Islam for Christianity.

This 2004 puff piece erroneously labels his mother a Christian:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article

Meanwhile...

In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father Barack Obama wrote, “My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess... In a land [Indonesia] where fatalism remained a necessary tool for enduring hardship... she was a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, position-paper liberalism.”

In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope Obama wrote, “I was not raised in a religious household... My mother's own experiences... only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones... And yet for all her professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I've ever known.”

Religion for her was “just one of the many ways — and not necessarily the best way — that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives,” Obama wrote.

In 2007 Obama described his mother as “a Christian from Kansas.” “I was raised by my mother,” he continued. “So, I’ve always been a Christian.”

Also in 2007, he said in a speech, “My mother, whose parents were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew. But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution. And as a consequence, so did I”

33 posted on 04/09/2009 8:23:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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To: mort56
Funny this should come up after reading several political sites myself and people mentioning why hasn't the Obamas gone to church since being in Washington and then this comes up..No one can tell me that those idiots dont read what people write on the Internet..I guess he will have to look hard since most real God fearing Churches do not believe in Abortion and this is the abortion King of all time..Besudes who are they trying to fool we know he has his prayer rug set up some place in the white house..We are not idiots like his followers are. Oh btw how many people caught Rush the other day when he repeated something on one of Oprahs guest a Doctor Oz who is one of Opras guest a lot and good friend of hers..anyway the good Doc was talking about stem cell implants and said that people that had this procedure has a very high risk of Cancer that stem cell is not the answer to Alzheimer treatment.. So you see killing babies is never the answer..I wish I had the transcript of that show..Michael J Fox was on the show also..From what was said Oprah had a very ugly look on her face when this was announced..
34 posted on 04/09/2009 8:25:36 AM PDT by PLD
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To: mort56

Muslims celebrate Easter? Thats news to me.


35 posted on 04/09/2009 8:25:47 AM PDT by Merlinator
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To: mort56

Find a church just in time for Easter.....wait! Muslim’s don’t celebrate the resurrection of Christ


36 posted on 04/09/2009 8:26:50 AM PDT by cblue55 (If you aren't outraged you aren't paying attention)
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To: mort56

Either they believe Christ is their Savior or they do not!
We do know they haven’t committed their life to Jesus. I guess they are looking for the most extreme - the politically correct churches and I’m sure they will find them. As for me, give me a Bible believing southern pastor who is politically incorrect any day!


37 posted on 04/09/2009 8:28:26 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Seaplaner

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZnFFme90gWsyNUw-Mou8Q8U569g
Obama makes surprise visit to Iraq: AFP reporter

Earlier, Obama visited a landmark mosque in Istanbul, following strong messages of US reconciliation with the Islamic world on his maiden trip to a mainly Muslim country as president.

Taking off his shoes as tradition requires, Obama stepped into the 17th-century Sultanahmet Mosque in the ancient heart of Istanbul, accompanied by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Two Muslim preachers guided Obama inside the grandiose edifice — better known as the Blue Mosque for its blue tileworks — and the president smiled when they showed him a dome scripture mentioning the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Hussein, Obama’s middle name, Anatolia news agency reported.


38 posted on 04/09/2009 8:28:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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To: a fool in paradise

Didn’t know that Islam required a Baptism!


39 posted on 04/09/2009 8:28:40 AM PDT by supermop (Somebody has to clean up the mess he will leave)
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To: a fool in paradise

He’s as crooked as a tub of guts, it would seem. He doesn’t tell it straight because he can’t. His story is so twisted up he probably honestly doesn’t know the truth himself.

One thing is certain: he is a muslim.


40 posted on 04/09/2009 8:30:38 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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