Posted on 02/24/2015 2:35:52 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....In Walker's defense, Tim Graham of the Media Research Center (“Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias”) offers this exegesis: “Walker, the son of a Protestant minister, hears the question very differently: asking if someone is a Christian is a very personal question, asking whether someone has committed themselves to Jesus in their heart. It’s like asking if he knows how often Obama prays. His reluctance to answer for someone he doesn’t know is not a ‘No.’ "
Nice try, but the political context of the question was clear and it’s the one Milbank mentioned: the conviction that “Obama is a Muslim from Kenya.”.....
Based on the public record, Walker should have been able to affirm personally what his spokeswoman did: that Obama identifies as a Christian -- and not just a "social justice" liberal Christian. In an interview with Christianity Today in 2008, Obama said that “accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals.”.......
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I think he's agnostic or atheistic.
There is nothing about the man that makes me believe he is guided by religious belief.
His Middle East policies have only one connection with religion.
Religious hatred.
Hatred of Jews, hatred of Israel, and hatred of the Judeo-Christian foundation of Western culture.
To spit on, or to whip out to show solidarity with his audience when campaigning, which is sort of the same thing.
“accepting Jesus Christ in my life” is not the same as accepting Him as Savior. Even Muslims acknowledge Jesus the Christ. But they reject his sacrifice on the cross.
Best reply on the thread. Excellent.
The media wants to use Giuliani's comments against other Republicans: either the Republican candidates support the idea that the president is a Christian or a patriot, or they're maligned for questioning Obama's bona fides, and that's used against the whole party ("fever swamps," etc.)
What Walker's doing is turning this around and making the media themselves the issue, and when that happens, the press gets very uncomfortable. After all, their veto power is at stake.
Second, Obama lies. Those who believe Obama is a Christian because he says so probably believe that if they like their doctor/coverage/country, they can keep it, too.
In other words, morons. We're onto you, Lamestream!
(and best of all, Walker seems to be, too)
Excellent answer.
...and Barack claims he sat in the pews for 25 years and heard nothing...
The best analysis I read was on PamelaGeller.com a few days ago.
We are talking about those who see Jim Wallis and Barry Lynn as religious leaders, after all.
Maybe I should write to him with a suggestion.
If he wore thong panties, bunching up wouldn't be so much of an issue.
You will know them...
...by their fruits.
Last March, Obama was interviewed by Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times Op-ed columnist. Here’s what the Times quoted Obama as saying:
“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office [...]. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Some have!
Lots of folks, born into a Muslim home, community, country become Christians.
??????
Why would Scott Walker be an expert on what is in Obama’s heart. Obama can speak for himself in his words and deeds. Ask the man direct.
The problem is the answer McGough cites as proof of Obama's Christian faith, “accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals,” is a lawyerly answer, calculated to sound like a confession of Christian faith without actually being one.
Neither it, nor any other statement Obama has made that I can recall has in any way echoed Peter's confession, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God," affirmed either of the central doctrines of Christianity, the divinity of Christ or that the One Existing God subsists from before eternity as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or used the common phrase among believing Christians, "Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ."
If Mr. McGough can find a recording, reliable transcript, or event attested by multiple witnesses of Obama affirming the divinity of Christ or the doctrine of the Trinity in any public pronouncement or private statement, he would do well to trot them out as a corrective to the doubt many of the public share with Gov. Walker. The quote provided doesn't cut it.
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