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My Take: Why should Santorum decide who's a real Christian? (Because Obama's NOT a Christian)
cnn ^ | 2/20/2012 | By Stephen Prothero

Posted on 02/20/2012 10:59:24 AM PST by tobyhill

There has been much chatter in recent days about the reinjection of religious matters into the presidential campaign, with a focus on the increasingly bitter debate over Catholics and contraception. But Rick Santorum has just opened up a new and dangerous front in the culture wars.

We are now being asked to debate which of the Christians running for president is really a Christian. I am referring here not to questions about Mitt Romney, whose Mormonism according to many evangelicals is not the right theological stuff, but to questions about President Barack Obama.

In the past, the strategy on the right was to intimate that Obama was a closet Muslim (he is not.) It was too crass even for our crassest politicians to come out and utter this falsehood, so, when asked about Obama’s faith, the strategy was to say, “If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.”

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1 posted on 02/20/2012 10:59:27 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

You will know them by their fruits.


2 posted on 02/20/2012 11:02:21 AM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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To: tobyhill

You will know them by their fruits.


3 posted on 02/20/2012 11:02:21 AM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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To: tobyhill

When someone goes to church ONLY to look for votes and do a cheap photo op, I really wouldn’t consider them a Christian. But that’s just me.


4 posted on 02/20/2012 11:03:34 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's time for the DemocRAT voter base to start paying their "fair share" of taxes.)
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5 posted on 02/20/2012 11:04:16 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: tobyhill

Get ready for this over the next 8 months if it looks like Rick is going to win. The Left will want to turn this into “Intolerant Rick” who wants to nose around your bedroom, vs. Obama. They have to because Obama is such a failure. Rick needs to not play into this. Social conservatives know he is on their side. He needs to focus on economics and regulation.


6 posted on 02/20/2012 11:05:55 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Linda Frances
Amen!


7 posted on 02/20/2012 11:08:44 AM PST by CainConservative (Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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To: tobyhill

It was Obama who claimed his policies are consistent with Christ’s teaching. Obama is an arrogant SOB at all times.

As Rush said today, Santorum did not question Obama’s 20 year devotion to Rev. Wright.


8 posted on 02/20/2012 11:09:27 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: tobyhill
whose Mormonism according to many evangelicals is not the right theological stuff

Ha ha. How about according to virtually all Christian groups that are not henotheists or arianoid.
9 posted on 02/20/2012 11:10:15 AM PST by aruanan
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To: tobyhill
“It’s not about your job. It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology,” he said. “Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology. But no less a theology.”

He is obviously referring to the comparison of radical environmentalism to religious fervor. This analogy is very common in conservative circles, mostly because the analogy is so correct.

As a liberal, this kneejerk wouldn't get the reference, but I would imagine so much goes over his head unnoticed each day.

For an explanation of the comparison, he should pray to Gaia for karmic enlightenment, or seek a chakra releasing audience with Pope Gore.

10 posted on 02/20/2012 11:11:09 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: tobyhill

Obama and his wife, Michelle are not Christians, period!!! Anyone that believes they are Christians is only fooling themselves. I, personally do not believe that Obama or his wife are Muslims, but, in practice, Obama never met a Muslim he did not like, including Bin Laden. Remember, folks both Hitler & Stalin had their own “Night of the Long Knives” wherein they slaughtered their own supporters by the thousands.

Actually, I believe that Obama & Michelle have no religion, they are both dyed-in-the-wool atheists, who believe they themselves are Gods, superior to us all!!! These, my friends are not nice people!!!


11 posted on 02/20/2012 11:11:26 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy POTUS Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: tobyhill

Too late.

Rick`s already backpeddling and withering under the secularist attack of all things.

Once you admit you`re wrong the left smells blood and will attack even harder.

Rick should have attacked by simply pointing to an Obama speech where he claimed Luke 12:48 was meant that taxes on the rich should be even higher.
That of course was complete heresy . God was speaking to his Disciples directly and speaking of the extra burdens of believers, NOT taxes.

If Rick that done that he would have eviscerated the jackals not at his heels from the dominant left-wing media.

Too late.


12 posted on 02/20/2012 11:12:07 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: tobyhill; All
From Obama’s books:

From Dreams From My Father: “THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.

From ‘Dreams From my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”

‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.

From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080101164820/http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html?cid=dc-article-obama .

Obama authorizes additional 80,000 Muslims to entry country http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/29096

. Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth,” in an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times. Kristof described Obama’s recitation of the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”

The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! I witness that there is no god but Allah I witness that there is no god but Allah I witness that Muhammad is his prophet... “

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim’s complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.

•His biological father was a Muslim.

•His stepfather was a Muslim.

•As a child Barry was enrolled in school as a Muslim in Jakarta Indonesia.

•Barack Hussein 0bama’s first and middle names are Arabic Muslim names.

•0bama recited the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer, which includes a vow of fidelity to Islam, in flawless Arabic on a radio program. - Nikolos Kristoff, NYTs, 3-06-07

•On that same program he said he thinks the call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth.”

•0bama belonged to Rev. Wright’s (a former Muslim) church for twenty years. Many congregants are Muslims.

•0bama said that the U.S. is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

•0bama holds Muslim celebrations in the WH but canceled the National Day of Prayer.

•President 0bama’s religious adviser, Eboo Patel, once deemed the United States “the ideal place for the renewal of Islam.”

•0bama falsely attributes Muslim participation in the founding of America.

•0bama required that the cross be covered when he gave a speech at Notre Dame.

•Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech

•0bama’s first major speech in office was a “Muslim outreach” speech in Cairo Egypt.

•“The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.

•0bama gave strong support to the Cordoba House community center and mosque to be built at the Ground Zero site of Sep. 11, 2001 at a dinner celebrating the day’s end of the first day of Ramadan at the WH.

•0bama tasked NASA with a mission of “Muslim outreach.”

•0bama referred to his faith as “my Muslim faith” in an interview with George Stephanopolous.

Obama admits he’s a Muslim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY

. Obama appoints Muslims to key security posts: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134466

. Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where Obama told him that He was still a Muslim, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/76/647/Egyptian_minister:_Obama_told_me_he_is_a_Muslim.html

In 2001, Obama sponsored Illinois Senate Bill 750 creating the “Halal Food Act,” providing for inspections by the Department of Agriculture to ensure that all food labeled Halal is prepared according to Islamic law. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet92/summary/920SB0750.html

This act plays into Islamization. Here’s how it works and how Halal food plays a role:

“From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halaal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply (United States)

Go to The Obama File http://www.theobamafile.com/index.htm by Beckwith.

Read the ‘Religion’ section: http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm

and ‘Islam’: http://www.theobamafile.com/_Islam/ObamaIslamIndex.htm

The United States Library of Congress has selected TheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. http://www.theobamafile.com/LibraryOfCongress.html

10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam Contrasted With 10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity The Truth ^ | 7/7/11

10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam

#1 "Islam has always been part of America"

#2 "we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities"

#3 "These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings."

#4 "America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."

#5 "So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed"

#6 "Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality"

#7 "As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith."

#8 "I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month."

#9 "That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."

#10 "I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story."

10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity

#1 "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation"

#2 "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."

#3 "Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?"

#4 "Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life."

#5 "The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics."

#6 From Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope: "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

#7 "I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup."

#8 "Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s will--they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths."

#9 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount."

#10 "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."

OBAMA MOCKS THE BIBLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FCNK...w.phforamerica

13 posted on 02/20/2012 11:12:34 AM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Linda Frances

I think some of y’all need to read Romans 13. Blew me away too.


14 posted on 02/20/2012 11:13:01 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV))
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To: CainConservative

Rush has been talking about this. He is playing some soundbites from Rick that I had not heard, like obama worldview upside down. I found it on the internet here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57381029/santorum-obamas-worldview-upside-down/


15 posted on 02/20/2012 11:13:05 AM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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To: dead; tobyhill; zot

As I said in a similar thread:

I agree with Santorum. When I heard Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, I wondered “Where did he learn that intrepretation of the Gospels of Jesus?” It was a near social justice and secular humanist versions of what Jesus said. He spoke of Jesus as a radical social reformer, seeking to change the power structure in ancient Israel. That he was focused purely on physical things of this world and not spiritual things of the next world.

Obama does not, in those words, shows that he understands or knows that Jesus came to save our souls and take us (our true selves, our souls, not these physical bodies) back to heaven to be with our Father.

The gospel that Obama learned is that of humanism and communism that he learned from his grandparents, Frank Davis, and “the reverend” Jeremiah Wright.


16 posted on 02/20/2012 11:14:58 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
This is actually a good strategy for Santorum for now. First, point out exactly who Obama really is or is not. Second (next step), show proof. Third, contrast between what a majority believe and what Obama believes.

It's a guaranteed winner.

17 posted on 02/20/2012 11:15:20 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
Once again, King Obama is a communists black Muslim. He fakes he is a Christian like everything else. He is a Chicago criminal.
18 posted on 02/20/2012 11:15:53 AM PST by Logical me
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To: tobyhill

At what point did Santorum say Obama isn’t a Christian?

And why do liberals who hate religion with a passion even care?


19 posted on 02/20/2012 11:16:30 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Get ready for this over the next 8 months if it looks like Rick is going to win.

Watch Newt.

20 posted on 02/20/2012 11:17:26 AM PST by Logical me
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