Obama Nurtures His Faith Away From the Spotlight (Thou Shalt Barf Alert)

AP via ABC News ^ | Saturday, October 19, 2013 | Josh Lederman

[kristinn]

President Barack Obama is not an overtly religious man. He and his family rarely attend church, and he almost never elaborates in public about his own relationship to his Christian faith.

But away from the public eye, advisers say, the president has carefully nurtured a sense of spirituality that has served as a grounding mechanism during turbulent times, when the obstacles to governing a deeply divided nation seem nearly insurmountable.

Every year on Aug. 4, the president's birthday, Obama convenes a group of pastors by phone to receive their prayers for him for the year to come. During the most challenging of times, prayer circles are organized with prominent religious figures such as megachurch pastor Joel Hunter, Bishop Vashti McKenzie of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights activist.

Each morning for the past five years, before most of his aides even arrive at the White House, Obama has read a devotional written for him and sent to his BlackBerry, weaving together Scripture with reflections from literary figures such as Maya Angelou and C.S. Lewis.

"I've certainly seen the president's faith grow in his time in office," said Joshua DuBois, an informal spiritual adviser to Obama who writes the devotionals and ran Obama's faith-based office until earlier this year. "When you cultivate your faith, it grows."

Obama is particularly moved by theories that draw connections between biblical themes and the personal journeys of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., DuBois said.

[a fool in paradise]

Obama IS an atheist “secular humanist”, however he clearly has a hardon for Islamic theocratic rule.

[a fool in paradise]

Recall a few years back when Michelle Obama thanked those who keep the “evil spirits” away from the Obamas. Not praying for his guidance, etc. These people REALLY don’t “get it.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43559.html
Michelle Obama: Keep the prayers (and votes) coming
By GLENN THRUSH | 10/13/10

“We put this man in office; we’re all proud of Barack and his accomplishments,” she told Joyner, whose show is popular among black voters. “Everybody I know in our communities are praying for us. Every day we feel that and let me just tell your listeners it means the world to us to know that there are prayer circles and people who want to keep the spirits clean around us.”

[prairiebreeze]

Spot on. Anybody who truly understands Christianity can see that Obama at best, doesn’t practice it. He’s wordly, prideful, stiff-necked, spiteful, etc.

Personally, I don’t believe he is a Christian.

[GeronL]

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[Jane Long]

At least the comments at (lib) site are calling BS on 0 and this articles author.

[Ezekiel]

"I've certainly seen the president's faith grow in his time in office," said Joshua DuBois, an informal spiritual adviser to Obama who writes the devotionals and ran Obama's faith-based office until earlier this year. "When you cultivate your faith, it grows."

A gardening metaphor for Obama's faith... perfect.

Lessons from the White Hut garden:

Tomatoes rotting on the vine. Weeds welcomed. Waste and desolation.

[MinuteGal]

"Michelle thanked those who 'keep the evil spirits away' from the Obamas."

She sounds like dabbler in voodoo. I wonder if she and her royal husband stick pins in effigies of Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.

Leni

[JulieRNR21]

BINGO.....BUMP

Simply brilliant post!