Last June Barack Obama blasted Christian conservatives in a speech at the United Church of Christ’s 50th Anniversary General Synod.
Obama said that faith got hijacked by leaders of the Christian Right:
Un-freakin-believable!
Transcript:
"Somewhere along the way faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart... Faith got hijacked partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us. At every opportunity they’ve told Evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and Intelligent Design."In the same speech Obama described how Dr. Jeremiah Wright planted a seed of faith in him:
"Obama briefly described his journey to faith, which began in a household that was not formally religious, though he called his mother "one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew." His encounter with believers came as he was working in community organizing in Chicago. In those relationships, he found "that without an anchor for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone." So he visited Trinity Church, where the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright's sermon "The Audacity of Hope" was the seed that, growing, led him to affirm his Christian faith."Well, Halleluiah!
Obama's speech prompted the IRS to investigate the UCC.
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ReplyDeleteUn-freakin-believable-audacity!!
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It's not even the general election yet. Just wait until someone asks Obama... If we didn't depose Saddam would Iraq and Iran be in a nuclear arms race now?
ReplyDeleteNothing surprises me anymore. Let's pray the American voters wake up come November! Padre Steve
ReplyDeleteThis feeble-hearted snake oil salesman wants to make nice with the Mullahs who with their so-called religion have destroyed not only Iran but half of the middle east...dividing people, controlling and killing, striking terror on the planet and then HE talks about religion dividing people? This man's reasoning faculties are not only questionable, they're downright dysfunctional! He's TRULY dangerous.
ReplyDeleteChristian right drives people apart, while liberation priests are just "venting"?
ReplyDelete"Somewhere along the way faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart..." by Obama
ReplyDeleteFaith will bring people together when they are on the same page and accept the same truths, at least those truths considered to be deal breakers. In the Bible the wheat and the tares grow up together in the world, but in the end, God will gather the tares who have committed evil and burn them.
"Faith got hijacked partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us." by Obama
You mean those Christian ministers who actually believe the word of God and stand up for the teachings of the Bible, unlike Obama who does not.
"In those relationships, he found "that without an anchor for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone."" by Obama
Gee, he felt segregated and lonely, so he finds that good enough reason to join a church; perhaps, he should have been searching for something higher. I hate to tell it to Obama, but Reverend Wright does not plant the seeds of wheat or the seeds of tares - he is a spreader of pig manure.
Joanne, you are far too reasonable. You might become unhappy on this planet.
ReplyDeletelil bammy hanging at the faux christian church...bought to you by the nation of islam
ReplyDeleteI have "hope" that Obama will actually "change" his hatemongering, but... this isn't Middle Earth so, there's no hope.
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