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The quiet impact of Obama’s Christian faith
The Washinton Post ^ | 12/22/15 | Greg Jaffe

Posted on 12/23/2015 6:28:57 AM PST by Old Yeller

president Obama was flying over Los Angeles in June as he listened to the first accounts from a courtroom in Charleston, S.C., where family members of nine dead parishioners who were gunned down at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church had just addressed the accused killer.

He heard the words of a daughter who had lost her mother: “May God forgive you. I forgive you.” He heard the words of a daughter who had lost her mother: “May God forgive you. I forgive you.”

He listened to the plea of a mother who had lost her son: “Every fiber in my body hurts . . . but may God have mercy on you.”

The president paused, the thump of the helicopter’s blades filling the otherwise silent cabin. He had planned to tweet some statistics later that day comparing gun violence in the United States and other developed countries, but now he told his staff to cancel that.

Instead, in the Oval Office two days later, he seized upon something that seemed more important to him than any argument about gun control — an idea central to his political identity and his conviction that he could unify the divided nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: christian; husseinobama; muslim; obama
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To: Old Yeller
beleived he could unite a divided country — and why he failed

As Brett Stephens wrote in the WSJ last week, Obama has not failed, the nation has failed him.

21 posted on 12/23/2015 6:56:43 AM PST by keat
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To: M Kehoe

The Washington Compost is trolling us.


22 posted on 12/23/2015 7:03:08 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Old Yeller

Quiet impact? Very, very quiet.


23 posted on 12/23/2015 7:06:15 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: Old Yeller

Muslim faith. You mean Muslim faith.


24 posted on 12/23/2015 7:22:35 AM PST by Genoa
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To: Old Yeller

He’s a muzzie importing millions of fellow muzzies in hopes of taking over America.


25 posted on 12/23/2015 7:23:15 AM PST by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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To: Old Yeller

Obama is a devious Islamist and Americanphobe.


26 posted on 12/23/2015 7:34:28 AM PST by pallis
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To: Ancient Man

I didn’t know Black Liberation Theology was anything but a Marxist militant cult like organization.


27 posted on 12/23/2015 7:40:01 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: Old Yeller

My dog is more impacted by Christianity than Obama is. Pretty nauseating stuff, never has the cult of personality been clearer in this country.


28 posted on 12/23/2015 7:47:49 AM PST by Bayan
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To: Old Yeller

I believe he is a mooselimb.


29 posted on 12/23/2015 7:48:33 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz)
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To: Old Yeller

The quiet impact of Obama’s Christian faith

Thank you for the pre-Christmas laugh. I needed one today!


30 posted on 12/23/2015 7:52:43 AM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Old Yeller

This has got to be a joke, right Betty?


31 posted on 12/23/2015 7:53:09 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Old Yeller

Greg Jaffe again.

Does. Not. Understand. Christianity.

Writes about it anyway.


32 posted on 12/23/2015 9:01:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: Old Yeller

Obama is not a Christian


33 posted on 12/23/2015 9:24:39 AM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: Old Yeller

Obama’s “Christian faith” is so quiet that I have never seen or heard a sign of it. It is stealth Christianity (or, more likely, a complete lie).


34 posted on 12/23/2015 3:23:14 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: kidd

Good point. These so-called journalists make it all up as they go along, very often forgetting what they said previously.


35 posted on 12/23/2015 3:25:40 PM PST by uncitizen (Pray for Donald Trump)
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