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Why couldn't Scott Walker agree that President Obama is a Christian?
Los Angeles Times ^ | February 24, 2015 | Michael McGough

Posted on 02/24/2015 2:35:52 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I seriously doubt he's Muslim.

I think he's agnostic or atheistic.

There is nothing about the man that makes me believe he is guided by religious belief.

His Middle East policies have only one connection with religion.

Religious hatred.

Hatred of Jews, hatred of Israel, and hatred of the Judeo-Christian foundation of Western culture.

61 posted on 02/24/2015 3:46:03 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: a fool in paradise
Why does he carry a fistful of assorted religious charms?

To spit on, or to whip out to show solidarity with his audience when campaigning, which is sort of the same thing.

62 posted on 02/24/2015 3:46:31 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“accepting Jesus Christ in my life” is not the same as accepting Him as Savior. Even Muslims acknowledge Jesus the Christ. But they reject his sacrifice on the cross.


63 posted on 02/24/2015 3:54:27 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: skeeter
Now those who've spent three generations throwing Christians out of public life want to tell everyone what a Christian is.

Best reply on the thread. Excellent.

64 posted on 02/24/2015 3:55:51 PM PST by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This is a turf battle about context, and that's a big battle, not a small one.

The media wants to use Giuliani's comments against other Republicans: either the Republican candidates support the idea that the president is a Christian or a patriot, or they're maligned for questioning Obama's bona fides, and that's used against the whole party ("fever swamps," etc.)

What Walker's doing is turning this around and making the media themselves the issue, and when that happens, the press gets very uncomfortable. After all, their veto power is at stake.

66 posted on 02/24/2015 4:08:18 PM PST by x
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
First, the MSM seem to be competing for the George Steps-on-all-of-us "War on Women" award for the 2016 campaign.

Second, Obama lies. Those who believe Obama is a Christian because he says so probably believe that if they like their doctor/coverage/country, they can keep it, too.

In other words, morons. We're onto you, Lamestream!

(and best of all, Walker seems to be, too)

67 posted on 02/24/2015 4:09:09 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: Ingtar

Excellent answer.


68 posted on 02/24/2015 4:10:35 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: a fool in paradise
And who brought him to Jesus? That hateful quack, Rev. Jeremiah Wright (a former muslim).

...and Barack claims he sat in the pews for 25 years and heard nothing...

69 posted on 02/24/2015 4:11:50 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: 9422WMR

The best analysis I read was on PamelaGeller.com a few days ago.


70 posted on 02/24/2015 4:13:38 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Pollster1
Anyone who thinks Obama is a Christian has a very broad definition of Christianity...

We are talking about those who see Jim Wallis and Barry Lynn as religious leaders, after all.

71 posted on 02/24/2015 4:16:23 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Dana got his panties in a wad over “creationist” Christians.

Maybe I should write to him with a suggestion.

If he wore thong panties, bunching up wouldn't be so much of an issue.

72 posted on 02/24/2015 4:19:09 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You will know them...
...by their fruits.


73 posted on 02/24/2015 4:20:16 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
In an interview with Christianity Today in 2008, Obama said that “accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals.”
 
 
versus
 

Last March, Obama was interviewed by Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times Op-ed columnist. Here’s what the Times quoted Obama as saying:

NY Times

I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office [...]. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”


74 posted on 02/24/2015 4:36:00 PM PST by Elsie
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Because Christians don’t go to Islamic schools when they are kids?

Some have!

Lots of folks, born into a Muslim home, community, country become Christians.

75 posted on 02/24/2015 4:37:56 PM PST by Elsie
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To: Mr. Jeeves

...a powerful guide...

??????

76 posted on 02/24/2015 4:40:18 PM PST by Elsie
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"Because there’s lack of evidence"

/this thread

/media inquiry

"You shall know them by their fruits."
77 posted on 02/24/2015 4:41:31 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Why would Scott Walker be an expert on what is in Obama’s heart. Obama can speak for himself in his words and deeds. Ask the man direct.


78 posted on 02/24/2015 4:41:48 PM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: 9422WMR
He'd left his big foam finger We're #1! at the White House.
79 posted on 02/24/2015 4:42:16 PM PST by Elsie
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I just posted the comment below to the L.A. Times comment section. Let's see if it gets past the moderators censors:
The problem is the answer McGough cites as proof of Obama's Christian faith, “accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals,” is a lawyerly answer, calculated to sound like a confession of Christian faith without actually being one.

Neither it, nor any other statement Obama has made that I can recall has in any way echoed Peter's confession, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God," affirmed either of the central doctrines of Christianity, the divinity of Christ or that the One Existing God subsists from before eternity as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or used the common phrase among believing Christians, "Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ."

If Mr. McGough can find a recording, reliable transcript, or event attested by multiple witnesses of Obama affirming the divinity of Christ or the doctrine of the Trinity in any public pronouncement or private statement, he would do well to trot them out as a corrective to the doubt many of the public share with Gov. Walker. The quote provided doesn't cut it.

80 posted on 02/24/2015 4:43:00 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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