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.â€
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.â€
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.
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As Brett Stephens wrote in the WSJ last week, Obama has not failed, the nation has failed him.
The Washington Compost is trolling us.
Quiet impact? Very, very quiet.
Muslim faith. You mean Muslim faith.
He’s a muzzie importing millions of fellow muzzies in hopes of taking over America.
Obama is a devious Islamist and Americanphobe.
I didn’t know Black Liberation Theology was anything but a Marxist militant cult like organization.
My dog is more impacted by Christianity than Obama is. Pretty nauseating stuff, never has the cult of personality been clearer in this country.
I believe he is a mooselimb.
The quiet impact of Obama’s Christian faith
Thank you for the pre-Christmas laugh. I needed one today!
This has got to be a joke, right Betty?
Greg Jaffe again.
Does. Not. Understand. Christianity.
Writes about it anyway.
Obama is not a Christian
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).
Good point. These so-called journalists make it all up as they go along, very often forgetting what they said previously.
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