Posted on 09/28/2010 8:07:48 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
A couple of readers responded to my recent post about the religions of Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell by asking why I didn't spend my time digging deeper into the religious history of President Obama.
As one of them reminded me, Obama attended school "in a MUSLIM country." A real reporter would keep probing, he said. I took that admonition to heart and went searching for clear evidence. And truly, I uncovered information that could be troubling to every real American.
In fact, Obama did spend several of his childhood years in Indonesia, the world's largest mostly-Muslim nation. He attended two schools. One, by all accounts, is a public school attended by affluent kids. The other, where he took classes for a couple of years, was in a poor neighborhood. And the record indicates this school engaged in daily religious indoctrination of its students, including prayers.
Is it a stretch to think that the young Obama might have had his beliefs shaped by his years at that school? The question must be asked: What did he learn and when did he learn it at Santo Fransiskus Asisi? Is it possible that President Obama is a secret Catholic? (I'm not the first person to raise the question, btw. )
Obama cleverly hid his Catholic history by only mentioning it in his autobiography and several interviews. But that hasn't stopped a few reporters from pulling out the facts. The anti-Obama troops at the Washington Post did a long profile of that Catholic school earlier this year.
The foreboding foreign name of the school actually translates into the deceptively friendly "Saint Francis of Assisi." Why would the school try to hide that if there were no nefarious schemes going on?
I know that other seekers after truth have tended to focus on Obama's distant connection with Islam. Historically speaking, however, Muslims haven't been great with conspiracies. They keep their animosities right out in the open. Did anybody think that al-Qaeda was a charity group, even before 9/11?
But Catholics? As any reader of "The DaVinci Code" knows, the Catholic Church can keep its secrets for centuries.
How implausible is it that a Dutch Catholic priest running a school in Jakarta would have identified a black, American tween with an Arabic name more than 30 years ago and marked him as a future president of the United States? And programmed him to do the Vatican's bidding? Attention must be paid!
I call upon the White House press corps to ask the hard questions the next time Obama is willing to face the queries:
Are you, Mr. President, a hidden Catholic, taking orders broadcast by the pope through the antenna in that tall hat he wears? Can you prove you are not a Catholic? If so, you should be able to produce a certificate of non-baptism signed by the priest who didn't baptize you.
If Obama is unable to answer the questions, I call upon every Catholic in the entire world to sign a certified statement disavowing any link between the president and their faith.
Any Catholic who helps procure an abortion is excommunicated. Ergo, no way is Obama a Catholic. Though if he repents, accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior and recites the Apostles Creed (and whatver else has to be done...), we’ll take him in our church of sinners as soon as possible.
Any Catholic who helps procure an abortion is excommunicated. Ergo, no way is Obama a Catholic. Though if he repents, accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior and recites the Apostles Creed (and whatver else has to be done...), we’ll take him in our church of sinners as soon as possible.
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Many people may be surprised that Muslims love Mary, the mother of Jesus. In the Quran, no woman is given more attention than Mary. Mary receives the most attention of any woman mentioned in the Quran even though all the Prophets with the exception of Adam had mothers. Of the Quran's 114 chapters, she is among the eight people who have a chapter named after them.
From this site .... Islam for Today
The author is having a jab at those who consider Obama to be a Muslim and is instead, putting forward a tongue-in-cheek proposal that he could, in fact, be Catholic. Essentially, he's saying that there's as much (and perhaps more) evidence that Obama is Catholic as there is that he is Muslim.
It's meant to be funny..........I think!
That's a fictional book. This author just lost all credibility with that statement.
time for another cup of coffee
Pardek - where have you been? Didn’t expect to see your posts here. You’re gettin religion. That’s good.
Would you like another serving of crow to go with your coffee?
Those were socialists.
Satire huh...what are you satirizing?
LOL! Please ... I'm still a bit hungry too.
this is absurd
I wuz bathed in da crick - I am now absolved muh sins!
Not any more. . .some still, but not many. We The statement was clearly stated in the present tense, not past tense.
As a conservative Lutheran, I am trying to decide if this posting is completely nuts or totally sarcastic.
I am thinking it is totally nuts and the admin moderator should remove it. Insulting to all Christians.
Father: Tell me your sins, my son.
Jerry: Well, I should tell you that I’m Jewish.
Father: That’s no sin.
Jerry: Oh good. Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about Dr. Whatley. I have a suspicion that he’s converted to Judaism just for the jokes.
Father: And this offends you as a Jewish person?
Jerry: No, it offends me as a comedian.
If he is a closet Catholic then he is living the Catholic faith as well as Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
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