Posted on 10/12/2015 2:28:36 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
In a wide-ranging conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, President Obama suggested that Christians who take their religion the most seriously often adopt an us versus them mentality. In the interview, published in the Nov. 5 issue of The New York Review of Books, the president lamented the fact that here in the United States, sometimes Christian interpretation seems to posit an us versus them, and those are sometimes the loudest voices. But sometimes I think you also get frustrated with kind of the wishy-washy, more liberal versions where anything goes, Mr. Obama said, referring to Ms. Robinson. How do you reconcile the idea of faith being really important to you and you caring a lot about taking faith seriously with the fact that, at least in our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously sometimes are also those who are suspicious of those not like them? Ms. Robinson replied, I mean, when people are turning in on themselves and God knows, arming themselves and so on against the imagined other, theyre not taking their Christianity seriously. Ms. Robinson went on to say that Christianity is profoundly counterintuitive Love thy neighbor as thyself which I think properly understood means your neighbor is as worthy of love as you are, not that youre actually going to be capable of this sort of superhuman feat. But youre supposed to run against the grain. Its supposed to be difficult. Its supposed to be a challenge.
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It is very obvious to anyone with 2 neurons in their brain that he is no Christian. But I wonder, has he ever, in his entire life, even KNOWN a real Christian? Evidence is the answer is no.
A lame duck would look good next to him. He ia A lame dork.
Nothing like a little projection.
Projection 101
Socialist that take their socialism the most seriously have an us versus them mentality.
Obama’s “religion” is a collection of post-modern, American-leftist social justice cliches.
Where Christianity runs in sync with those beliefs, then Obama considers himself a “christian.” Where it does not, then he is opposed to Christians.
At this point i dont care if someone makes him a martyr. Just sick of every lying evil word out of his pie hole.
He’s projecting again.
Yeah we’re suspicious of people who scarifice thier children to death, honor kill thier daughters for disgracing them, strap bombs on thier kids backs, lop the heads off of those who disagree, stone thier wives and allow other men to rape them, mutilate genetalia of thier teen daughters, rape young boys, yeah we’re suspicious you rat bastard
What is unnatural about that? It seems the most natural thing in the world to me. People who believe in something would be suspicious of those who do not.
Obama has a lot to say, but most of it sounds good but makes no sense in the long run. He has been orating for seven years now, but has said nothing that has any value in everyday life. I refer to him as a valedictorian because he talks good and walks away and nobody ever holds him to what he has had to say.
Can someone please just press the fast forward button to the end of this american and christian hating faggots presidency!!!
COEXIST - you have all seen this bumper sticker, made up of the various religious symbols, beginning with the Muslim crescent and withing with the Christian cross, but it is a lie.
Islam does not co-exist with ANYBODY. It lies in wait until it is numerous enough, then goes on a murderous rampage, either killing, threatening to kill, or converting everybody else to its “religion”, and imposing a harsh law code upon the survivors.
The fiction that Christianity used the Crusades to destroy the innocent Muslims is another inversion on the actual facts. The Crusades were a push-back against Islamic expansion into Christian lands, and the horrific genocide that took place each time.
The Muslims were driven nearly into obscurity with the invasion of western Asia and the Middle East by Genghis Khan in the 13th Century, who, in a very fine demonstration of equality, murdered ALL his opposition. The Muslims became very obsequious and surrendered all their territorial ambitions, until the Golden Horde retreated back to the steppes of Mongolia. The Islamic world then exploded with a vengeance, which has not abated even today.
Listening to this guy is like listening to a stoned Irwin Corey.
“I wonder, has he ever, in his entire life, even KNOWN a real Christian? Evidence is the answer is no.”
I agree, he belongs to some nutty racist church that caters to homosexuals. If he happens to know any true Christians, he just told them plainly what he thinks of them (but they had to know already).
Obviously Obama is suspicious of Christians who take their religion seriously.
Mohammedans take their cult very seriously with devastating results.
How would that Muslim know what Christians think about?
this asshat is talking about an “us vs them” mentality? Chutzpah!!
ISIS kills people who are not like them.
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