Posted on 12/22/2015 12:47:31 PM PST by ghost of stonewall jackson
Obama did not grow up in a religious household and became a practicing Christian as an adult. He has written more extensively about his spiritual awakening than almost any other modern president, addressing it in two books before he was elected to the White House and in more than a dozen speeches since.
His faith had been central to his identity as a new kind of Democrat who would bring civility to the country's political debates by appealing to Republicans through the shared language of their Judeo-Christian values.
With just one year left in his second term, Obama now holds a different distinction: No modern president has had his faith more routinely questioned and disparaged. Recent polls show that 29 percent of Americans and nearly 45 percent of Republicans say he is a Muslim.
He has repeatedly said in recent months that one of his biggest regrets is that he will leave behind a country that has grown more polarized and distrustful during his two terms in the White House. "There's all this goodness and decency and common sense on the ground, and somehow it gets translated into rigid, dogmatic, often mean-spirited politics," Obama said in a recent interview.
To understand why he so deeply believed that he could close that gap and why he largely has been unable to do so, it is essential to understand his faith and how it shapes his politics. That faith also explains why he has not given up.
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Give me a break. Obama doesn’t believe in any higher power than himself.
Gag me with a farm implement.
Twaddle! He is of TROP..
...and here Constant Reader threw up.
What Christian faith?
I stopped reading after the first sentence. Obama is an atheist. I know this because I’m an atheist, and I know all the signs.
How amusing. The Compost has to - once again - try to convince us that Obammie is not a muslim.
FAIL.
He was born a muslim. Raised a muslim. And to this day follows muslim beliefs, traits, customs and values.
Please. In his own book he said: “his family didn’t subscribe to a faith that consigned three-quarters of the world to Hell”.
I opened his book at the bookstore and that was the page I stumbled upon. That told me all I need to know about his “faith” early on. Then came James-Cone-follower-”rev”-Wright and BLT.
Now, of course, the Gospel is offered to everyone, but not everyone receives it.
If being a Christian were illegal, Obama would not even be charged. Lack of evidence.
Wow! First sentence, two bald assertions, two outright lies.
This is without a doubt one of the funniest Onion pieces of all time!
even the devils believe...and stutter. I mean, shudder.
LOL!!! Obama, a committed Christian? OMG! LOL!!!!!
“He has repeatedly said in recent months that one of his biggest regrets is that he will leave behind a country that has grown more polarized and distrustful during his two terms in the White House.”
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That’s a real whopper. His whole mission was to divide this nation. Once divided, it could be more easily destroyed.
Obama is not a Christian .. he’s a non-believer .. and he worships another god.
He prays to Allah in the WH .. what does that tell you. Hillary did the same thing.
I’m hoping there is a spiritual cleansing of the WH when Obama moves out.
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