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Obama to create faith-based office
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Posted on 02/05/2009 7:56:13 AM PST by Lucky9teen

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Thursday he will establish a White House office of faith-based initiatives that will show no favoritism to any religious group and adhere to the strict separation of church and state.

Addressing the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama spoke of how faith has often been a divisive tool, responsible for war and prejudice. But, he said, "there is no religion whose central tenet is hate. There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being," and all religions teach people to love and care for one another. That is the common ground underlying his faith-based office, he said.

In personal terms, he talked about the role of faith in his life, from his Muslim-born father and a mother skeptical of organized religion to his own embrace of Christianity as a young man.

"In a world that grows smaller by the day, perhaps we can begin to crowd out the destructive forces of zealotry and make room for the healing power of understanding," Obama told the gathering of lawmakers, dignitaries and world leaders. "This is my hope. This is my prayer."

Dogged throughout the presidential campaign by rumors that he was a Muslim, Obama described his background in a household that wasn't religious.

"I had a father who was born a Muslim but became an atheist, grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized religion, even as she was the kindest, most spiritual person I've ever known. She was the one who taught me as a child to love, and to understand, and to do unto others as I would want done," he said.

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KEYWORDS: bho44; faithbased; natlprayerbreakfast; obama; obamaandgod; religion; religiousleft
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If it's faith-based, how is it maintaining separation of church and state?

And Obama says there is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being, yet he's all for funding abortions with our tax dollars.

I'm confused....

1 posted on 02/05/2009 7:56:14 AM PST by Lucky9teen
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To: Lucky9teen
will show no favoritism to any religious group

Well, that's good news!

Have they already chosen the Muslim who will lead the effort?

2 posted on 02/05/2009 7:58:03 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Lucky9teen
There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being
What about the 72 virgins? Everyone knows Islam condones killing.
3 posted on 02/05/2009 8:00:28 AM PST by NowApproachingMidnight (Sell the left short this cycle.)
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To: Lucky9teen

‘No God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being’

Abortions aside, of course.

And Muslims aside. Altho I guess you are not innocent if you are a Christian or a Jew, so that lets them off the hook somewhat.

I suggest he fine-tune that preamble before the group gets established. It is hard enough to get the different Protestant denominations to agree on anything, let alone the world religions.

Good luck to ya, Mr. O. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. May it be mercifully soon.


4 posted on 02/05/2009 8:00:58 AM PST by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: Lucky9teen

Jerimiah Wright would make a great director for this office........well, he has had Obama’a ear for 20 years.


5 posted on 02/05/2009 8:03:23 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Have they already chosen the Muslim who will lead the effort?"

He's probably holding out for someone from "The Left-Hand Path."
6 posted on 02/05/2009 8:04:38 AM PST by shibumi (By the Authority of Hung Mung, Patron of Chaos and Keeper of The Sacred Chao)
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To: Lucky9teen
"There is no religion whose central tenet is hate."

Except one.

"There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being."

Except one.

7 posted on 02/05/2009 8:05:04 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (We're living in the Dark Ages.)
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To: shibumi

Remember how much the media criticized Bush for this....


8 posted on 02/05/2009 8:05:21 AM PST by Blue Turtle (I)
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To: Lucky9teen

Faith in what? His faith is evidently in some god who condones the killing of innocents. He is walking the talk.


9 posted on 02/05/2009 8:06:49 AM PST by BigFinn (isa 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
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10 posted on 02/05/2009 8:09:38 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes, the 1% muslim religion deserves equal to the 98% Christians.


11 posted on 02/05/2009 8:11:31 AM PST by edcoil (Hey, I found my round-tuit, guess I'll go to work now.)
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To: Lucky9teen

This idiot knows the koran and hadith, right? Who the h*ll does he think he’s foolin??


12 posted on 02/05/2009 8:12:07 AM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: Lucky9teen; Charles Henrickson

Sounds like The Right Rev. Fop needs work.

13 posted on 02/05/2009 8:21:07 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Finally festivus will get the respect it deserves


14 posted on 02/05/2009 8:21:32 AM PST by italianquaker
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To: Lucky9teen
It could be 2 things:
O’s faith-based office= keep your enemies close to you ?

or

O’s faith-based office= a way to destroy faith Obama-oposition party and promote faith Obama-support party

take your pick.

15 posted on 02/05/2009 8:28:06 AM PST by urtax$@work (The best kind of memorial is a Burning Memorial.........)
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To: Lucky9teen

“Obama’s advisers want to be certain tax dollars sent to the faith-based social service groups are used for secular purposes, such as feeding the hungry or housing the homeless, and not for religious evangelism.”

The great Carl Jung believed in the healing power of religion but Obama does not. Expect an exponential rise in alcoholism, child abuse, petty crime, felonies, and homeless drug addicts.

It seems like Obama will leave no damage undone. What a POS


16 posted on 02/05/2009 8:34:43 AM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Lucky9teen
In a world that grows smaller by the day...

Here we go....

17 posted on 02/05/2009 8:35:09 AM PST by exhaustedmomma (All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. Samuel Adams)
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To: Lucky9teen

Obama considers the unborn to be an ememy of pregnant women. Therefore, he doesn’t consider them “innocent”. Liberal insanity at its “best”.


18 posted on 02/05/2009 8:35:46 AM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Lucky9teen
"I had a father who was born a Muslim but became an atheist, grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized religion,

...so God da**n America!

19 posted on 02/05/2009 8:40:54 AM PST by shiva
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To: Lucky9teen

uh-oh...this is not good. Here comes the assault against Christian churches (you know, those that preach “hatred”). Looks like he’s trying to see how much damage he can do in the briefest period of time. Something new pops up every day. Clearly in some ways obama was ready to hit the ground running.


20 posted on 02/05/2009 8:47:53 AM PST by ElayneJ
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