Posted on 01/21/2008 9:51:50 AM PST by callisto
Obama Is A Christian Leader Now?
Posted by: Jonathan Garthwaite at 11:09 AM
MSNBC:
Mike Huckabee isn't the only candidate trying to portay himself as a Christian leader.
Barack Obama in a mailer (PDF) in South Carolina says that he will be guided by prayer when he's in office. The mailer shows Obama with his head bowed in prayer and has the words "Christian" in large letters. A second mailer shows Obama with his family and says he's a member of Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years.
And the liberals at DailyKos.com aren't happy about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...
Yes because liberalism is a religion, like humanism and evolution.
Do you have to be either Christian or a leader in order to be called a Christian Leader?
Osama has a HUGH ace-in-hole with the Church. Mrs. Clinton refused to dig this goldmine?
Clintons don't even use the religion card shame on you Obama .Maybe you really do think you are Ronald Reagan.No the Clintons play the race and gender card, Tim!
Tim (Sent Monday, January 21, 2008 11:28 AM)
Sorry, I don’t buy it. If he is not bowing five times a day on his hand an knees toward mecca, he is espousing the drivel his Chicago church has put out about where their allegience should be, and it is not America....
Go to his “Christian” Church’s website and you’ll look long and hard trying to find the word “Jesus” anywhere.
“Obama Is A Christian Leader Now?”
What’s interesting is his familial link to a Muslim leader in Kenya.
See post 9 at the post below (even though lead thread article is
not on Obama)...
hit “view replies” on post 9 for more information about
Obama’s Kenya/Muslim connection.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954275/replies?c=9
I would think that one would need to both Christian and a leader to call oneself a “Christian Leader.”
Read the testimony of Nurse Jill Staneck about the hospital Obama’s church operates in Oak Lawn IL.
“Go to his “Christian” Church’s website and you’ll look long and
hard trying to find the word “Jesus” anywhere.”
No suprise there.
For these liberal (faux) Christians, the US Constitution and
The Holy Bible are “living, breathing documents” that can be selectively
ignored and/or used to assault conservatives as needed.
Go to his “Christian” Church’s website and you’ll look long and hard trying to find the word “Jesus” anywhere.I've read through the site and viewed his "ministers" sermon. I believe he hides behind this "church" out of political neccessity, and has since he planned his path to the White House during his college years.
Or is he just practicing al-Taqiyya?
Source: http://www.simplysharing.com/assuringlight/obama.htm
“So, I have a deep faith. I’m rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people, that there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and that there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.” (snip)
He is saying, essentially, that all people of faith – Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone – know the same God. It is, perhaps, an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take. But that depends on how you hear a verse from the Gospel of St. John, where Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me,” Obama says
WHAT’S GOIN’ ON?So much for the separation of church and state.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Marvin Gaye’s powerful “message song” is a song that made him famous because it went against the “Motown entertainment rule.” It raised serious questions about the culture, the country and governmental policy.
His song raised questions about Black-on-Black violence, about drugs, about war and about the way in which we were living (or not living) in a very difficult period of history.
I use his words today on the third Sunday of a New Year to keep before you the painful truth of who we are and where it is we are in this racist United States of America! What’s goin’ on?
We have lost over 3,000 boys and girls in an illegal and unjust war, and the media is on a feeding frenzy about Barack Obama’s church. Where is the outrage about the 3,000 dead American military personnel and the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians who are dead for no reason other than greed and ego? What’s goin’ on?
This past Wednesday, January 17th, the House of Representatives deliberated on a bill to cut interest rates on federally subsidized student loans. On Thursday, January 18th, the House of Representatives considered legislation that would repeal some royalties and tax incentives from the oil and gas industries and redistribute that money to alternative and renewable energy such as bio-fuels.
The media, however, is not covering that news. The media wants to know about Barack Obama’s pastor. What’s goin’ on?
On the weekend leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, the House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate drug prices for the Medicare program. The President who is “staying the course” and sending 1,500 more troops to their death has issued a veto threat against the measure and there is no public outcry and no media outrage. What’s goin’ on?
The President, who is “staying the course” and sending 21,500 more troops to their death has issued a veto threat against the measure and there is no public outcry and no media outrage.
The President’s “New Plan” (more troops, more death and more war) promises an insane escalation — in Iraq, Iran and beyond! With the torture of Abu Ghraib, the complete destructions of cities like Fallujah and over 600,000 deaths due to collateral damage, the President complained in his speech that there had been “too many restrictions” on the actions of the United States Forces in the Iraq war.
The President’s “New Plan” (more troops, more death and more war) promises an insane escalation — in Iraq, Iran and beyond!
Am I the only one who heard that? What’s goin’ on?
I celebrate forty years of ordained ministry this weekend. I bask in the 40-year glow of God’s Grace, God’s forgiveness and God’s lessons about humility.
The e-mails that I have been getting this week, the news clippings that I am being sent and the racist blogs that are flooding the Internet make me know, however, that even as I bask, the work ahead for the church of Jesus Christ is just as serious and difficult today (if not more so) as it was forty years ago when I was ordained during the Vietnamese War!
The President tries to frame the justification for his insanity by using language describing the debate in this country over the war as “a great struggle between those who believe in freedom in moderation and extremists who kill the innocent.”
The reality, however, is that the entire war in Iraq and the larger “war on terror” have been based on lies, half-truths and distortions to serve the agenda of the United States imperialism. Where is the public outcry? Where is the outrage? What’s goin’ on?
There is more focus on what the Bears may or may not do as they play a football game against New Orleans than there is on the 3,000 homeless who are still living or displaced in the real life game called “New Orleans.”
Those poor Black and white displaced citizens of New Orleans (not imported team members playing for New Orleans), who have no place to go and no place to live because of this administration’s illegal war and its billions of dollars wasted on prosecuting that war, join with me in asking, “What’s goin’ on?”
I invite your sincere prayers this weekend. The generation of ministers behind me has its work cut out for them in some incredible and overwhelming ways!
Sincerely yours,
Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
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