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Barack Obama lets his faith show
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Posted on 12/28/2010 5:09:14 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Barack Obama lets his faith show

By: Carol E. Lee December 28, 2010 04:28 AM EST

HONOLULU — President Obama’s trip to church Sunday followed a steady rebirth over the past three months in public expressions of his Christianity.

Obama has publicly mentioned his “Christian faith” more times in the past three months than he has over the past year. He has more frequently cited passages of the Bible, including repeated references to the spirit of Genesis 4:9 — “I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper” — which was a mainstay of Obama’s 2010 campaign stump speech. And he’s taken his family to church twice, a shift for a president who has preferred to worship privately since the end of the 2008 campaign.

“He presents his Christianity as an important aspect of his identity but one he doesn’t want to foist upon anyone else, and he would rather risk downplaying it than offending somebody,” said Jeffrey Siker, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University, who has studied Obama’s use of the Bible in his speeches.

“One recurring phrase — and I’ve noticed this frequently of late — this notion that we are our brothers’ keepers, which is kind of a mantra for him,” Siker added, noting that Obama “would see the notion of being our brother’s keeper as something that crosses all religious lines.”

Obama has used the reference, which was a regular feature of his on the 2008 campaign trail, in two dozen speeches since September. Before then, he’d used it just four times as president. References to his “Christian faith” also have appeared more times in Obama’s speeches since September than they did before.

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To: bereanway

EXACTLY! And pro abortion barry doesn’t know that but Christians do.


21 posted on 12/28/2010 5:33:53 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Sub-Driver

No serious Christian would legislate for the killing of nascent human life.


22 posted on 12/28/2010 5:35:55 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Zzzzzzzzzzz.........

Wake me up when he takes the instructions and then is baptized in a Christian church. Then maybe I'll believe he's a true believer.

Zzzzzzzzzzz..........

Leni

23 posted on 12/28/2010 5:37:27 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: JennysCool

If that is what Obama really thinks of the American people, then we can only hope we escape his brotherly affections.

I detect the contempt for the American people every time obama speaks. kinda like a trigger for me since i read his book where he considered working in the private sector ‘behind enemy lines’


24 posted on 12/28/2010 5:37:55 PM PST by griswold3 (Employment is off-shored, away from govt. regulations, price pressure groups, and liabilities.)
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To: Mr. K

>> the media pretends to believe him,

Yeah, and now they’re espousing the virtues of Christianity.

Something’s up.


25 posted on 12/28/2010 5:39:06 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh gag me with a collection plate.


26 posted on 12/28/2010 5:40:24 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama gets the quote wrong, he repeatedly mentions his religion, and the press is ga ga because he’s “not trying to force his religion on anyone.” Anyone think Sarah Palin would get the same treatment?


27 posted on 12/28/2010 5:41:22 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Sub-Driver

“I am my brother’s keeper”

I don’t have any problem with that. Where we differ is that I don’t think he should have the opportunity to require me to be his brother’s keeper. I’ve got enough of my own brothers.


28 posted on 12/28/2010 5:43:31 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Sub-Driver; 444Flyer; null and void; Armaggedon
“He presents his Christianity as an important aspect of his identity but one he doesn’t want to foist upon anyone else, and he would rather risk downplaying it than offending somebody,” said Jeffrey Siker, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University, who has studied Obama’s use of the Bible in his speeches.

The spirit of lies, working overtime. This clown must have got in line early for the mark of the obamabeast.

29 posted on 12/28/2010 5:43:48 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Sub-Driver
That's funny...I was just reading a thread where Obama Praises Teaching Tolerance for Islam. Oh, I forgot, there's deception permitted by Taqqiya.

"I'm just an innocent little snake, Eve."

30 posted on 12/28/2010 5:45:15 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just like Clinton was a pretend Christian also. He walked out of a funeral seervice for someone - I think was guy he had killed in Bosnia - walked out of church and began laughing at a joke, when he saw repoters across the street became real solumn real fast.


31 posted on 12/28/2010 5:48:37 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: Sub-Driver
Welcome to Mr. O's neighborhood.

Can you say, "Hypocrite?"

I knew you could.

32 posted on 12/28/2010 5:49:59 PM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Happy Kwanzaa, infidels.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

33 posted on 12/28/2010 5:51:17 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Campaign mode.


34 posted on 12/28/2010 5:52:37 PM PST by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: Hugin

Pretty much says it all.


35 posted on 12/28/2010 6:01:30 PM PST by Vegasrugrat
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To: Sub-Driver

I think Obama read the same Bible that Willie Nelson read when he did his comically anti-Bible snip for “We are the World”. The Bible of “I think it’s in the Bible somewhere”, the one that has that verse about “God helps those who help themselves” in it... Yeah, that Bible.


36 posted on 12/28/2010 6:01:50 PM PST by kittycatonline.com
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To: Sub-Driver
WE need to desktop this and post if often - and email it to everyone.

This is what he REALLY thinks about the Bible...
and “We are no longer a Christian Nation...” he ends up bashing the Bible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Kh-xzerjE

Also take note, and remind people, that he NEVER refers to the Bible as the “HOly Bible” - but he ALWAYS refers to the Koran, not at the Koran - but the “HOLY Koran”

And let no one forget that his first speech as president was IN EYGPT! (Celebrating their mutual Islamic victory?) He quotes sacred Islamic passages that only Muslims are allowed to - he relates the wild story about the midnight ride of Mohammed and expresses his belief and reverence of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_889oBKkNU

Wake up,America.

37 posted on 12/28/2010 6:02:39 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: Responsibility2nd
What "Christian" issues a racist and phony message like this....
I send greetings to those observing Kwanzaa.

Celebrated by millions across the world, Kwanzaa honors the history and heritage of Africa. This seven-day observance is an opportunity for individuals of African descent to remember the sacrifices of their ancestors and reflect on the Nguzo Saba. Kwanzaa's seven social and spiritual principles offer strength and guidance to meet the challenges of each new day.

During this joyous time of year, Americans renew our commitment to hope, understanding, and the great promise of our Nation. In honoring the traditions of Africa, Kwanzaa strengthens the ties that bind individuals in communities across our country and around the world.

Laura joins me in sending our best wishes for a joyous Kwanzaa.

GEORGE W. BUSH

Bush's Kwanzaa greeting
38 posted on 12/28/2010 6:03:14 PM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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To: Sub-Driver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgXz7U5i9Q


39 posted on 12/28/2010 6:04:32 PM PST by Natural Born 54 (FUBO x 10)
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To: Moonman62

lolol

I wondered if someone would pick up on that BS from Bush.

Oh well. I repeat: What “Christian” issues a racist and phony message like this....


40 posted on 12/28/2010 6:05:36 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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