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, they’re 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 you’re actually going to be capable of this sort of superhuman feat. But you’re supposed to run against the grain. It’s supposed to be difficult. It’s supposed to be a challenge.”
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I am suspicious of those who attack my beliefs and refuse to let me live according to them. Besides, what’s the point of being religious if you aren’t serious about it?
I agree. Notice the veiled attack on the Second Amendment?
When Bammy starts standing up for the unborn we can talk!
"The fact" "sometimes" "interpretation seems to posit" "sometimes"
Well, my interpretation seems to posit that this guy is a buffoon.
Guess which one Obama is?
Yep, and the turkey puts down the very reason this country was founded.
Our forefathers came here to escape government suppression, to stand on our own with a minimum of regulation and he brings up a lame excuse of repairing roads.
This turkey will say anything just to hear his own voice.
Christians who take their faith seriously take their faith from the Word of God, not the Word of Progressives. The God of the Bible defines His Law and a succinct definition can be found in Exodus 20, commonly called the Ten Commandments.
One of those Commandments is to not place any other gods before the True God. Not any gods, whether man-made like an idol, man-made like the institutions of government or man-made like secular ideologies.
I am not “suspicious” of people who are not like me. I know how to relate to people who worship other gods. We now know that Progressives have turned “race” into a proxy for ideology, and especially secular progressive ideology that seeks to replace the True God with the god of government and “social justice”. That is why Progressives hate Christians and Jews. We will not bow to their gods.
He wanna make it dark before the dawn.
I was under the impression that the communist who condemned Christians who cling to God and to guns was the one with an “us versus them” mentality.
The Caliph speaks
The Muslims could at least do the loving thing and sharpen the knife before beheading Christians. Obama knows nothing about Christianity or he wouldn’t have been in Wright’s cult for 20 years as this lunatic preached hatred of White people.
Liberals suspicious and hateful of all Christians.
That was exactly my first thought.
Jesus Christ is the end all to Religion.
Obama is as false as his father Satan.
“How in the world would he know anything about Christians?”
Only 15 months and 1 week left now!
Obama is demonic. Everything he says are Lies and everything he loves (sodomy and abortion) are the Rites of Ba’al Worship.
His problem is that he HATES the Constitution because of the Individual Natural Rights from God which is only from the most rational religion in ALL of history: Christianity.
Only the Christian worldview created the most brilliant, free cultures in the World. Why? Because it is based in Natural Laws (God’s Laws) and it is scientific-—based on Reason and Logic and Individual dignity and worth, unlike all other collective, socialist, Eastern “worldviews” which kill off individuals, who don’t think and act like the “group”-—which is always a State-led and controlled ideology (Slavery).
Christianity is the most brilliant rational religion in the history of mankind—and we better take it back and put it into our Justice System again, or we will end like all pagan, satanic, sodomite cultures in the past.....in total chaos and tyranny with all the children corrupted.
This man lives alone, on a cold moon. When he ceases to honor and be entertained by his self and his fantasy admirers, his moon will grow very hot.
The world has seen many like that one.
Yep, bitter clingers...
Tick Tock...
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