Posted on 10/21/2012 5:48:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
...Historians may remember Obama as the nation’s first black president, but he’s also a religious pioneer. He’s not only changed people’s perception of who can be president, some scholars and pastors say, but he’s also expanding the definition of who can be a Christian by challenging the religious right’s domination of the national stage.
Obama is a progressive Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African-American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th-century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal salvation while ignoring the conditions that led to pervasive poverty.
No other president has shared the hybrid faith that Obama displays, says Diana Butler Bass, a historian and author of “Christianity after Religion.”
“The kind of faith that Obama articulates is not the sort of Christianity that’s understood by the media or by a large swath of Christians in the U.S.,” says Bass, a progressive Christian. “He’s a different kind of Christian, and the media and the public awareness needs to reawaken to that fact.”
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
First TOTUS with "his Muslim Faith".
Jack of all trades and master of none?
Naw, he’s not even a good jack.
Pfffft. Which is to say, he's no Christian at all. Christianity is one of the reasons he hates America.
Wow, now he’s Martin Luther.
Obama is a muzzie
Obama is a progressive Christian...WOW! Words fail me.
“The kind of faith that Obama articulates is not the sort of Christianity that’s understood by the media or by a large swath of Christians in the U.S.,”
Now there is an understatement worth its weight in ...something. Just when you think the media narrative couldn’t possibly get any more ridiculous, they manage to find a way.
I doubt that Christians are going to add the shahada to their daily prayers any time soon,
>> “He’s a different kind of Christian, and the media and the public awareness needs to reawaken to that fact.”
That he is! Different in the sense that he is a Christian without Christ, a communist using the “Christ brand” to market his ideology of poverty and death. In the Christian terminology, he is a “false teacher” at best, anti-christ at worst. (That’s small-a anti-christ, not The Antichrist. Even Satan wouldn’t use an incompetent tool like Obama.)
First “black” president? Recall that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of the discussion.
In the context of Critical Race Theory, just what, exactly, is meant by “race” and thus “racism”, “racist” and even “black”? We have a prominent case of “race” in that BHO told us in his own autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity and finally chose to be ‘black”. However, he also tells us that his mother was Caucasian and his father was from Kenya but listed as part Arab. In 1988, none other than Bill Clinton was called our “first black president” by Nobel poet Tony Morrison.
If a Caucasian man can be “black”, and a person with a Caucasian mother can decide to be black despite the fact his biological father may be more Arab than black or something else, then what, exactly is meant by “black”?
When Bill Maher, during a panel discussion on HBO complains that Obama’s policies are “half-assed” “because he’s only half black.” and that “if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.”, and that “there’s a white man in him holding him back”, than what is “black”?
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien writes of a private meeting in 2007 with Jesse Jackson in her book, “The Next Big Story.” During the meeting, Jackson complained to O’Brien, whose mother is a black woman from Cuba, that there weren’t any black anchors on CNN. She wrote, “He looks me in the eye and reaches his fingers over to tap a spot of skin on my right hand. He shakes his head. “You don’t count,” he says.” She closed the section with “[t]he arbiter of blackness had weighed in. I had been measured and found wanting.”
Finally, Dr. Cornel West, whose official web site describes him as “a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual”, was the subject of an article in the May 18, 2011 Washington Post. Reporter Krissah Thompson opened with, “Scholar Cornel West’s scathing critique of President Obama’s liberal bona fides in a series of recent interviews has ignited a furious debate among African American bloggers and commentators.”
These are all facts that anyone can verify on Google in 0.8 seconds.
References to race, racism and especially to “black”, in all these contexts, is clearly not about “race”. It is about ideology, socialist ideology. The problem is not how black all these people may be, but how RED. With that in mind, to a person who equates “black” with socialist, then “racism” and “racist” is only about people who reject socialism and socialists.
Can you say “Oxymoron”?
There’s only one kind of Christian that I know of. One that loves Jesus Christ and works hard to follow the 10 commandments and to do right by his family friends and neighbors. This turdOTUS makes no attempt at any of this.
MAJOR BARF ALERT!!!
Obozo is a wolf in sheep’s clothing plain and simple. A false believer who is about to get exposed royally. All that follow and support him are guilty of his sins.
He’s the only “Christian” I know who supports abortion to the point that babies who manage to be born alive are left to die.
He also supports two people of the same gender “marrying” each other. That is not Christian.
If the definition of “progressive Christian” means saying you’re a Christian for the purpose of progressing in your political ambitions, then, yes, that’s what he is.
No one confuses their faith. ("My Muslim faith...")
A Christian doesn't cover up the images of Christ when entering a place to speak. (Georgetown University)
A Christian does not require religions like the Catholic Church, or any Christian/Jewish faith for that matter, to choose against their beliefs in legislation. (HHS Mandate for Obama care.)
Yep, see tagline.
I most certainly understand Rev Wright’s church of GOD DAM AMERICA.
I most certainly understand Rev Wright’s church of GOD DAM AMERICA.
They can't touch this one.
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