Face it, Barack Obama is not a Christian and he is not a Muslim. He's a Communist, which means he's an atheist. He certainly believes in the existence of no entity greater or more important than himself.
I didn’t watch the video but I can imagine Obama using it in an ironic way and being misunderstood. I think you’re probably right that that’s what happened.
And yes, I don’t think Obama is a Christian in any meaningful sense. I think he’s an agnostic who chose to attend a Christian church for political reasons. In Chicago it was a way of showing solidarity with “the community”. I would guess he thinks Christianity and Islam are both basically a crock.
He has a certain sympathy for the Muslim world not because he’s a Muslim but because he sees them as victims of American bullying. In other words his worldview is leftist, not Muslim, which can lead to similar conclusions on certain issues.
I disagree that he’s a communist. I don’t think he’s that extreme. He’s more of a European style democratic-socialist. But even that is way outside of the American mainstream.
“Face it, Barack Obama is not a Christian and he is not a Muslim. He’s a Communist, which means he’s an atheist. He certainly believes in the existence of no entity greater or more important than himself. “
EXACTLY!
I wouldn’t go so far as to call Obama a communist, but I do think that he’s a socialist. After all, he’s supposedly even more to the left than Bernie Sanders, who admits that he’s a socialist. Also, I think that he may believe in Christianity to some extent-specifically the Black Liberation Theology kind, but he probably couldn’t care less about real and mainstream Christianity. After all, when “Reverend” Wright was revealed to be a loony demagogue, Obama initially stood by him. It was when it became clear that Wright might cost him with the voters that Barry threw him under the bus. He may have initially joined Wright’s “Church” for political reasons, but he may have come to believe it, at least to some extent.