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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: Sub-Driver

There’s a difference between stating “I am my brother’s keeper” and FORCING others to do be their brother’s keeper at great expense. That involves coercion & the use of force (IRS will arrest you if you don’t pay).

That’s slavery.


41 posted on 12/28/2010 6:10:13 PM PST by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: 9YearLurker

He didn’t even take care of his “Auntie” living in subsidized housing in Boston!!!!


42 posted on 12/28/2010 6:12:22 PM PST by victim soul
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To: maine-iac7

bttt


43 posted on 12/28/2010 6:14:48 PM PST by Pagey (B. Hussein Obama has no experience running anything, except his pedestrian mouth.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh pleeezzzz..... Give us a break.


44 posted on 12/28/2010 6:26:54 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Sub-Driver

Uh...where’s the barf warning?


45 posted on 12/28/2010 6:27:21 PM PST by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: Sub-Driver

2012 is getting closer and more people than ever think he is an atheist or a Muslim. Time to put on the show. Big bad Mo doesn’t want to give up the gravy train and no way in hell is he giving up Air Force One. He lives on that thing.


46 posted on 12/28/2010 6:29:30 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: All
Last year's DNC "holiday" card.

This year's DNC "holiday" card.

"Voters, Obama is baptized in the fire of faith."
" Alleluia, Obama's been saved. Thank you, Jesus. Amen."

47 posted on 12/28/2010 6:35:30 PM PST by Liz (There's a new definition of bipartisanship in Washington -- it's called "former member.")
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To: Sub-Driver

“we are our brothers’ keepers, which is kind of a mantra for him”

Yep, we’re our brothers’ keepers except for unborn babies, in which case it is a woman’s right to choose to not keep...


48 posted on 12/28/2010 6:36:34 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: Sub-Driver

Barack walked from one island to another; first, the seas parted and then he was walking on water...


49 posted on 12/28/2010 6:44:05 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Sub-Driver

His religion is Marxism.


50 posted on 12/28/2010 6:48:24 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: JennysCool

Great Post!


51 posted on 12/28/2010 6:53:57 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; TommyDale; Grampa Dave; Condor51; SE Mom; maggief; calcowgirl; STARWISE; ...
Obama’s trip to church Sunday followed a steady rebirth over the past three months in public expressions of his Christianity.

Oh please, Freud would have a field day with this cockeyed opportunist. He still doesn't get it.

He duped America into voting for him, and figured we'd all lie down and let him walk all over our beloved country, wearing his Marxist jackboots.

The message of Nov 2 was, in a nutshell, "That ain't gonna happen."

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THE RAHM EMANUEL LOSER EFFECT 4-term (gag) Congressman Rahm was beatified as the man who masterminded Dems takeover of Congress and WH. Cong Rahm ran (gag) "Our Common Values PAC" and chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee 2006-07.

Rahm had Dems winning in solid Republican districts running as "true believers."

The GOOD NEWS is ALL those Rahmified Dems are gone in the blitz of Nov 2. And Obama is treading on quicksand as we type.

These characters are the biggest friggin' liars. Rahm duped the voters again and again----he had Maoist Candidate Ohaha saying things like, "I want to be another Reagan." They cavorted around the states using focus group-tested statements to hide Obama's lefty leanings. ==========================================

DESTINED TO BE HIS DOWNFALL Republicans intend to capitalise on Obama's vanity and highlight his default ideology. His determination to keep pushing his Marxist brand of "progress" is about to make Obama the Irrelevant Progressive ex-President.

About time this sucker felt the sting of the voters' discontent.

52 posted on 12/28/2010 6:55:07 PM PST by Liz (There's a new definition of bipartisanship in Washington -- it's called "former member.")
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To: Sub-Driver
He went to church! MSM celebrates! What crap.......

Nobody celebrated when Bush went to church!

53 posted on 12/28/2010 6:59:08 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
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To: Liz
The message of Nov 2 was, in a nutshell, "That ain't gonna happen."

Somehow, I don't think he heard it. But he will.

54 posted on 12/28/2010 7:05:05 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life" —Lindzen)
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To: Sub-Driver

If the Assbuttwipe really believes he is his Brother’s Keeper, then why does he allow his brother to starve on $ One Freakin Dollar a Month in Kenya while he and the Wonkette are Living the Life of Reilly with $300 dollayr a pound KOBE BEEF, and 365 days a year of Taxpayer PAID VACATIONS in the Most Exotic Locations in the World! But then that sounds like the Typical Rich Liberal Presbyterian “Christian” here in America today!


55 posted on 12/28/2010 7:11:32 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: freedomwarrior998

perfect post—thanks :)


56 posted on 12/28/2010 7:12:10 PM PST by funfan
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To: Gene Eric

Obama is a Muslim wanabe or Wahabe

“One of the prettiest sounds on earth” is the Muslim call to prayer at sunset.
Barack Hussein Obama as quoted by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times - March 6, 2007

• The FIRST thing Obama did as a newly elected Illinois State Senator was to attempt to declare a Muslim holiday. Obama sponsored Bill SR0110 in the 90th General Assembly to declare November 1, 1997 to be Islamic Community Center Day. It did not pass.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/summary/900SR0110.html
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/srgroups/sr/900SR0110LV.html

• His biological father was a Muslim.
http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/?title=Barack_Obama%2C_Sr.&src=abop&qpvt=barack+obama+seniot&q=barack+obama+senior&fwd=1

• Because his biological father was a Muslim the Islam world thinks he is a Muslim.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/08/obama_is_a_muslim_18_24_or.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/

• His stepfather was a Muslim.
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/

• As a child Barry was enrolled in school as a Muslim in Jakarta Indonesia. An Indonesian Madrasa.
Obama didn’t just study at a Muslim school, he was enrolled in mugaji classes (where devout Muslims learn the Koran in Arabic).
http://laotze.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-and-inconvenient-truth.html

• Barack Hussein Obama’s first and middle names are Arabic Muslim names.
Barack was the name for Mohammad’s horse. Husein, enough said.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700246419/Barack-Muhammads-horse.html
http://sanooaung.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/will-be-obama-with-us-muslims-as-the-meaning-of-his-name-in-persian-language/

• Obama recited the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer, which includes a vow of fidelity to Islam, in flawless Arabic on a radio program. - Nikolos Kristoff, NYTs, 3-06-07 (***this one is a gottcha moment***)
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3413/pub_detail.asp
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/11679

• On that same program he said he thinks the call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth.”
http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of-the-prettiest-sounds-on-earth/
http://caosblog.com/archives/7373

• Obama belonged to Rev. Wright’s (a former Muslim) church for twenty years. Many congregants are Muslims.
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/07/jeremiah-wright-former-muslim/
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
http://endtimes.yuku.com/forum/viewtopic/id/289

• Obama’s said that the U.S. is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9959057/Barack_Hussein_Obama_US_one_of_the_largest_Muslim_countries_in_the_world/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/obama_america_one_of_the_large_1.asp

• Obama holds Muslim celebrations in the WH but canceled the National Day of Prayer.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1724544/obama_cancels_national_day_of_prayer.html?cat=9
http://www.exposeobama.com/

• President Obama’s religious adviser, Eboo Patel, once deemed the United States “the ideal place for the renewal of Islam.”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html

• Obama does not give gifts on Christmas.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12035.html

• Obama doesn’t celebrate his birthday.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/a-tough-birthday-for-obama/

• Obama falsely attributes Muslim participation in the founding of America.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7041/pub_detail.asp

• Obama required that the cross be covered when he gave a speech at Notre Dame.
http://blog.acton.org/archives/9843-notre-dame-georgetown-and-president-obama.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/11/opinion/main5006203.shtml
http://dougpowers.com/2009/04/17/obamas-jesus-coverup/

• Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech
http://myfaithspace.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-covers-christ-and-cross
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46667

• Obama’s first major speech in office was a “Muslim outreach” speech in Cairo Egypt.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8083171.stm

• “The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/bombshell-egyptian-foreign-minister-ahmed-aboul-gheit-says-on-egyptian-tv-%e2%80%9cthe-american-president-told-me-in-confidence-that-he-is-still-a-muslim-%e2%80%9d/
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=166905

• Obama gave strong support to the Cordoba House community center and mosque to be built at the Ground Zero site of Sep. 11, 2001 at a dinner celebrating the day’s end of the first day of Ramadan at the WH.
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/president-obama-supports-ground-zero-mosque/19593492?ncid=webmail

• Obama tasked NASA with a mission of “Muslim outreach.”
http://technology.newsplurk.com/2010/07/nasa-and-islam.html

• Obama referred to his faith as “my Muslim faith” gaffe in an interview with George Stephanopolous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I

• Pushes Islamic freedom of religion but not Jewish or Christian freedoms. Several weeks ago he told Israel NOT to build settlements in East Jerusalem. But OK to build that Mosque at Ground Zero.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7514285/Israel-spits-in-Obamas-eye-by-announcing-new-settlements-in-east-Jerusalem.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/24/barack-obama-israel-settlement-plan

Be wary, wary aware ....and wary, wary afraid...get prepared for more creeping sharia...more than what is coming out of the White House today.


57 posted on 12/28/2010 7:18:46 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Carol E. Lee, please check your nose for anal poisoning.


58 posted on 12/28/2010 7:20:11 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Sub-Driver

BO Christian? Why the need to trumpet it and make it a news story... because it isn’t true!


59 posted on 12/28/2010 7:26:05 PM PST by austingirl
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To: Sub-Driver
It's a trap!


60 posted on 12/28/2010 7:32:27 PM PST by GalaxieFiveHundred
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