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Is President Barack Obama a Christian?

In terms of historical facts, President Obama has been a Christian since he was baptized by Reverend Wright (an African-American Christian minister) more than 20 years ago. Some Americans may not appreciate his brand or style of African-American-based Christianity. This still doesn't change the fact that Barack Obama is a self-professed Christian believer who has been baptized and has mentioned his Christian faith numerous times as President of the United States. Is Obama a Christian? Of course he is. Is your (wrong) opinion any different?

Yes

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Side Score: 65
4 points

Unfortunately yes.

It is a dangerous and evil religion, but it has so infiltrated this democracy that it is impossible for one to reach the level of president without being thoroughly christian.

Luckily he's not one of those born again psychos who insists on christian totalitarianism akin to the dark ages.

Side: yes
JakeJ(3255) Disputed
1 point

This is kind of funny.

You tend to group all christians into one category and judge them and call them all "silly". -as I have stated before. Then you go and praise Obama (also funny) When he's by your definition "silly". He's done wonders for america(sarcasm) but he's silly. And HE also thinks adam and eve existed.

Do you see what bias does? It makes you look dumb.

Side: yes
iamdavidh(4856) Disputed
0 points

You mean I can't make fun of how hypocritical and completely moronic Christians are while at the same time appreciating that Obama's created more jobs and killed more terrorists in 3 years than Bush did in 8?

I'll tell you what, go explain to Churchmouse and other hateful Christians endlessly prattling their transparent one-sided completely baseless prejudices against any who dare not think like them, that Obama is not a secret Muslim or the anti-christ, and I'll stop.

Otherwise I take these "other" Christian's consistent silence on any subject as acceptance of the whole and will continue to group you all.

I mean, if Christians will so readily character-assassinate an obvious Christian for god-knows-what reason, imagine given any amount of power what the like would do to a self-professed non-Christian.

You are a violent and impossible to reason with bunch as a whole. I have no desire to be burned at a stake or dipped in pitch so I'm going to continue pointing out the hypocrisies of the religion in hopes I can in my small way curb the power you've wrestled from what was supposed to be a religiously neutral country.

Side: yes
Micmacmoc(2260) Disputed
1 point

[Christianity] is a dangerous and evil religion

A dangerous and evil religion? The bible (the book Christianity is based upon) is all about being nice to one another, forgiving, and being kind - in a nutshell. How on earth is any of that dangerous and evil?

Side: No
3 points

The Crusades, the Inquisition, Slavery, much has been done in Christianity's name which should have never been done, but it improves, like a fine wine, with age.

Side: No
2 points

Original sin is one of the worst and most degrading generally accepted notions in history, one which has been enthusiastically embraced by Christianity. The idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with being a human being, that to be human is to impure, unworthy, sinful, and in need of saving is a dangerous and evil idea and, naturally, an idea central to the Christian faith.

And, um... have you read the Bible before? I don't see how you could say it's "all about" kindness and forgiveness, not when over half of it is simply a catalog of who pissed off god and details on how he smote or tortured them for it.

Side: Yes
Kirby(16) Disputed
1 point

so youre pretty sure that Obama is christian? im not, because many americans cant name Obama religion. i read it from ref http://www.gallup.com/poll/155315/many-americans-cant-name-obamas-religion.aspx . it doesnt mean that Obama is christian.

Side: No
iamdavidh(4856) Disputed
1 point

1. I wish he weren't Christian, it's a terrible religion. But he is a Christian.

2. 34 percent of Americans think we lived with dinasaurs and the Earth was made 8,000 years ago. Take a poll of any stupid thing and 34% of Americans are going to say the dumbest thing humanly possible.

3. You're an idiot. Why do you care? This country was in large part founded to escape the kind of theocracy today's Christians are trying to create. Religion has no place in government.

Side: Yes
Kirby(16) Disputed
1 point

so youre pretty sure that Obama is christian? im not, because many americans cant name Obama religion. i read it from ref http://www.gallup.com/poll/155315/many-americans-cant-name-obamas-religion.aspx . it doesnt mean that Obama is christian.

Side: No

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

John 3:16

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"I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ."

Barack Obama ref

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Yes

Side: yes
2 points

Ofr course, do you think he would have been elected if he wasn't?

Side: yes
Kirby(16) Disputed
1 point

Does america such that? i dont think so, each people has a right to elect their choice, not depending on believeness of their choice.

Side: No
1 point

Without a doubt our President Obama is a true born again Christian. I personally have heard him confess that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior. People who don't believe this is because they have not done much research, or prejudice or Republicans that want face reality. Maybe they disapprove of African Americans and still call them the, "N" word.

Frank Dunlap - Former school teacher, coach of many sports, school Principal, was a doctor in a remote village (Tyonek, Alaska) for three years and had my own business until I retired at age 75; I'm now 79.

Side: Yes

Barack Obama has stated that Jesus Christ is a big influence in his life. He also goes to Church with his family on Easter Sunday.

Side: Yes
-1 points

Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

- President Barack Obama, a Protestant Christian for over 20 years

Barack Obama, the first African-American President in a nation that was still practicing black slavery a mere 140 years ago, is one of the most inspiring occurrences in the 21st century and may well be a sign that the third millennium will turn out to be an era of peace and prosperity for all Americans, and for all God’s children throughout the world. In many ways, his election as the most powerful leader in the world, indicates that the Christian doctrine of universal brotherhood has managed to emerge triumphant after a very scary, and completely evil, previous century that threatened the very foundations of Christianity. At the same time, a great many of Obama’s public statements have been infused with the inspirational and moral certainty that originates with his faith in Christianity. Here are just a few highlights:

My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman’s sense of self, a young man’s sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.

- Senator Barack Obama

We believe in a country that rewards hard work and responsibility, a country where we look after one another, a country where we say, ‘I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, I’m not just thinking about myself.’

- President Barack Obama

The fact of the matter is that, regardless of Barack Obama’s politics, some of which are in opposition to traditional Christian doctrines, he is still an authentic, genuine Christian believer who has been properly baptized by an ordained Christian minister. After this he did not fall, and he did not stray. Instead, he dutifully attended Christian Sabbath on a weekly basis for over 20 years before running for President. What follows is a basic guide to the Christianity of President Barack Obama. It has been organized in the following manner:

Part I. A Sampling of Quotes from Barack Obama

Part II. Quotes from Official News Reports about Obama’s Christian Faith

Part III. The Factual Reality of President Obama’s Christian Presidency

Part IV. America’s Confusion and Misinformation about Obama’s Christianity

Part V. The Opposition to, Versus the Acceptance of, Obama’s Christianity

Part VI. The Astonishingly Misinformed Beliefs of Certain Americans

Part I. A Sampling of Quotes from Barack Obama

As somebody who relies heavily on my Christian faith in my job, I understand the passions that religious faith can raise.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

(The story of Jesus’ birth) that we are called to love each other as we love ourselves, that we are our brother’s keeper and our sister’s keeper, and our destinies are linked…It’s a message that guides my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

(We can) see God in other people and do our best to help them find their, you know, their own grace…So that’s what I strive to do…That’s what I pray to do everyday. I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I found myself drawn – not just to work with the church but to be in the church…It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.

- President Barack Obama, University of Notre Dame (May 17, 2010)

It was because of these new-found understandings – that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking…that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized…But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt God’s spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King – indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history – were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their “personal morality” into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

- Barack Obama (June 28, 2006)

There is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease…The work ahead will not be easy, and there will be setbacks. There will be challenges along the way. But thanks to you, thanks to the great people of this great city, New Orleans is blossoming again.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I am a Christian by choice…I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead…Being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper. Treating others as they would treat me. And I think also understanding that you know, that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility that we all have to have as human beings.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I’m a Christian by choice. My family didn’t-frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn’t raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead-being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me….

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead: being my brother’s and sister’s keeper, treating others as they would treat me…I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

It’s interesting listening to the girls, what they pray for…They’ll talk about family and thanking God for blessing us, but they’ll always add a little twist: ‘I hope we have a great Thanksgiving, I can’t wait to see the cousins…They used to pray for a dog, until we got a dog.

- President Barack Obama, commenting on the Obama family prayer before dinner

It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us.

- First Lady Michelle Obama

I’d just sit in the back and I’d listen to the choir and I’d listen to the sermon…There were times that I would just start tearing up listening to the choir and share that sense of release..

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

Part II. Quotes from Official News Reports about Obama’s Christian Faith

Obama’s Christian Rhetoric

QUOTE- As president, Barack Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in a number of high-profile public speeches – something his predecessor George W. Bush rarely did in such settings, even though Bush’s Christian faith was at the core of his political identity…Obama’s invocation of the Christian Messiah is more overt than Americans heard in the public rhetoric of Bush in his time in the White House – even though Bush’s victories were powered in part by evangelical voters….Still, it is ironic that Obama, who rode a wave of young, Internet-savvy and more secular voters to the White House, would more freely invoke the name of Jesus Christ than did Bush. -UNQUOTE

Obama’s Christian Beliefs

QUOTE- In openly personal terms, President Barack Obama on Tuesday honored the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, saying he draws inspiration from an eternal story of pain, suffering and redemption…Obama’s comments provided a brief, uncommon opening into how he views his Christian faith. He told the religious leaders that their examples are followed by millions of people. He welcomed them warmly as “my brothers and sisters in Christ” and honored Christ as “our risen savior.”…Obama has also held White House events honoring the Jewish and Muslim faiths. -UNQUOTE

Obama’s Christian Family Prayer

QUOTE- The first family says grace each night before dinner, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle told ABC News in an interview that aired Friday…The Obamas have frequently spoken about prayer since arriving in the White House. Last month, Michelle Obama told a nationally syndicated radio show that the Obamas can feel prayers that are said for them…In 2009, Barack Obama said that he had stepped up his praying since becoming president ‘because I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate, and I need guidance all the time.’…He told ABC News then that he starts each morning by reviewing a devotional he receives on his BlackBerry. -UNQUOTE

Obama’s Little Known Christian Faith

QUOTE- A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicates that the number of Americans who erroneously believe President Obama is a Muslim is growing…In March 2009, the percentage was 11 percent. Today, it’s 18 percent…The percentage of those asserting that the president is a Christian — which he is — has gone down in that time, from 48% in March 2009 to 34% today…A plurality of Americans — 43% — say they don’t know what religion the president is. -UNQUOTE

Obama’s Daily Christian Readings

QUOTE- President Barack Obama is a great example of how technology and religion are symbiotic. Each morning, Obama reads a devotional on his BlackBerry….“I pray all the time now – because I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate and I need guidance all the time,” he said with a laugh during an interview with ABC’s Nightline that was aired Thursday night…Obama sai receives his daily devotional from Joshua DuBois, his director of faith and neighborhood initiatives….“That’s how I start my morning. You know, he’s got a passage, scripture, in some cases quotes from other faiths to reflect on. This is something where you just hope that you are aligning your work with His purposes and that you’re attuned to the needs of the people you’re there to serve,” he said. -UNQUOTE

Obama’s Tolerant Christian Understanding of Faith and Sin

QUOTE- “This is a country that is still predominantly Christian, but we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists” and others, he said, adding that “their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own, and that is part of what makes this country what it is.”…Humans are “sinful” and “flawed” beings that make mistakes and “achieve salvation through the grace of God,” the president continued….Obama responded that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare” in America, adding that families — not the government — “should be the ones making the decision.”…Restrictions against late-term abortion are in place now, he said, adding that “people still argue and disagree about it. That’s part of our Democratic tradition.” -UNQUOTE

Obama’s Christian Faith Denied and Defamed

QUOTE- Americans have some extreme views of President Obama, with a new controversial survey suggesting that 40 percent of adults believe he is a socialist, and about a quarter of survey participants thinking the president is a racist, anti-American and even doing things Hitler did…When broken out by political party, results showed some stark differences. For instance, the majority of Republicans believed the president is a Muslim and a socialist, while around 40 percent believe he is a racist, someone who resents American heritage and “wants terrorists to win.”…Forty percent of Republicans, compared with just 15 percent of Democrats, think Wall Street pulls his strings. -UNQUOTE

Obama’s Non-Muslim Past and Christian Present

QUOTE- Obama, however, claimed that his father, who he only knew as an infant, was an atheist. He assured that his time as President has only served to deepen his commitment to Christianity….Obama has repeatedly said that he is a Christian and prays regularly, but more Americans than ever have raised doubts over his beliefs. -UNQUOTE

Part III. The Factual Reality of President Obama’s Christian Presidency

- President Obama publically affirmed his Christian faith to a predominantly Muslim audience in Cairo, Egypt. He went to mention the famous Islamic legend of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed came together as one and prayed to God.

- Speaking to students at the University of Notre Dame, Barack Obama repeatedly described about his religious conversion to Christianity which occurred in Chicago working with the inner-city poor as a community activist.

- While discussing his economic policies in a speech at Georgetown Univeristy, President Obama deliberately invoked the Christian Gospel parable of building a house upon a foundation of either sand or solid rock to illustrate his political strategy.

- Even though he remains virulently opposed to nearly all of Obama liberal politics, Mr. Tony Perkins, who is president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian interest group, is on record praising the President’s openly Christian faith. Commenting on Barack Obama’s religious faith, He stated: ‘I don’t recall a single example of Bush ever saying Jesus or Christ…This is different…I applaud that. It gives people a sense of comfort.’

- Obama also managed to schedule an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House specifically for Christian pastors. During his opening remarks, he openly and specifically employed devout Christian rhetoric, even welcoming all the assembled guests as ‘my brothers and sisters in Christ.’

- A growing number of different news organizations have been reluctantly forced to make note of President Obama’s astonishing, and frequent, use of the term Jesus Christ, as well as other blatantly Christian terminology. One particular article even admitted the following: ‘Obama’s invocation of the Christian Messiah is more overt than Americans heard in the public rhetoric of Bush in his time in the White House’.

America’s Misinformed Confusion about Obama’s Christianity

Did you know that…

1) Since becoming President, Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ by name in public far more often than George W. Bush ever did during his tenure?

2) The Obama family, including his wife Michelle and their two daughters, recite Christian grace and prayers every night before eating dinner?

3) Barack Obama begins each morning by reading and reflecting upon Christian Scriptures and Prayers with one of his Christian staff members?

4) The historical evidence shows that Obama was never really a Muslim believer, while his sincere and authentic conversion to Christianity later in life has been clearly documented and verified?

5) President Obama has read and studied Roman Catholic Saint Augustine, the Christian intellectual Graham Greene, and the famous Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr?

President Obama prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

+ The Opposition to, Versus the Acceptance of, Obama’s Christianity +

Obama’s Public Christian Witness

Opposition To: I don’t need to hear politicians tell me how religious they are…Obama in a very overt way does what Bush tended to do in a more covert way. (Rev. Barry Lynn, United for Separation of Church and State)

Acceptance Of: I don’t recall a single example of Bush ever saying Jesus or Christ…This is different…I applaud that. It gives people a sense of comfort. (Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council)

Obama’s Actual Christian Faith

Opposition To: Obama can call himself anything he likes, but there is a clear requirement for one to qualify as a Christian and Obama doesn’t meet that requirement…Such people do have a label applied to them in Scripture. They are called ‘false prophets’. (Cal Thomas)

Acceptance Of: Obama has accepted Jesus Christ. That’s what he says he has done. So I just have to believe that the president is what he has said. (Reverend Franklin Graham, Son of Billy Graham)

Obama’s Christian Beliefs

Opposition To: The fact Senator Obama denies Jesus is the only way to be saved…calls into question whether he believes…It is time for Senator Obama to be held accountable for what he says he believes to examine if he really is a Christian. (Bill Keller)

Acceptance Of: The president says he’s a Christian. I take him at his word…I think the faith that most Americans are questioning is the President’s faith in the government to generate jobs. (Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell)

Obama’s Christian Theology

Opposition To: I think he’s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology…He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter. (James Dobson, Focus on the Family)

Acceptance Of: He presents his Christianity as an important aspect of his identity but one he doesn’t want to foist upon anyone else, and he would rather risk downplaying it than offending somebody…This notion that we are our brothers’ keepers…is kind of a mantra for him.(Jeffrey Siker, Loyola Marymount University)

- The Astonishingly Misinformed Beliefs of Certain Americans –

Some Astonishing Facts about the Misinformed Beliefs of American Voters

+ Bill Keller, a Internet Televangelist, accused President Barack Obama on-air of being an ‘Enemy of God’

+ 14 percent of Americans (24 percent of Republicans and 6 percent of Democrats) believe President Barack Obama may be the Antichrist.

+ A Pew Research poll in August (2010) revealed ‘that one in five Americans falsely believe the president is a Muslim, more than thought so last year’.

+ In a poll by Newsweek, 12 percent of voters incorrectly believe he’s Muslim; more than a quarter believe he was raised in a Muslim home.

+ A Time Magazine poll found that 24 percent of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, rather than a Christian.

A typical poster filled with lies and disinformation originally created by an Obama Hater

A List of Specific Beliefs of Certain Americans

38% – Believe Obama wants to abolish the right to bear arms

32% – Believe Obama is actually a Muslim in disguise

29% – Believe Obama intends to end U.S. independence and establish a single world government.

29% – Believe Obama has secretly violated the U.S. Constitution

27% – Believe Obama resent’s America’s heritage

27% – Believe Obama is the puppet of Wall Street bankers

25% – Believe Obama was not actually born on United States soil

25% – Believe Obama is the enemy of the U.S. Constitution

23% – Believe Obama is a racist

23% – Believe Obama is anti-American

23% – Believe Obama plans on staging a economic collapse of terrorist incident to seize control and declare Martial Law

20% – Believe Obama is doing the same thing Hitler did

Side: yes
churchmouse(328) Disputed
0 points

I do not hate Obama but he does not fool me. His actions are anything but Christian and he supports things that are anti-christian for one abortion.

He has no clue what the scriptures even say...and during the debate with Rick Warren...who by the way let him off the hook....he could not even address abortion and faith...because it as he said.....was above his pay grade. Everything so it seems to be above his pay grade....well except golf and vacations.

Side: No
maccabaeus(231) Disputed
1 point

Millions upon millions of Christian believers are pro-choice, it is terrible thing. Obama is one of them, but this does not make him a non-Christian after his baptism. It would take an excommunication to do that.

Side: yes
iamdavidh(4856) Disputed
1 point

... and churchmouse isn't fooling me. I know he/she is not christian because he/she hasn't stoned any children or beat any slaves today...

Side: Yes
3 points

Well just watch this video, you can ignore the narrator just listen to the part where Obama is speaking, a Christian wouldn't mock the Bible like that, so I would have to say no.

Biblek Obama Mocks And Makes Fun Of The Bible—No Christian Would Do This
Side: No
maccabaeus(231) Disputed
3 points

I don't see him mocking the Bible at all, but engaging as a Christian in a public forum. Obama is liberal Christian, they do exist and they are still Christian, because they are baptized as such and they attend Church as well.

Side: yes
churchmouse(328) Disputed
0 points

A liberal Christians.......oh you mean the one that picks and chooses what applies to them and tosses the rest out? The one who does not believe that Christ came as God in the flesh.,,,the one that doesn't think sin is that important that because God loves them He will look away?

And what do you know about Christianity, do you claim to be one? Baptizm does not get you into heaven, church attendance doesn't either. You shouldn't comment on something you obviously know nothing about.

Side: No
Bohemian(3860) Disputed
2 points

This only suggest that he doesn't believe in a literal application of the bible.

Side: Yes
3 points

Although I have no way for sure of knowing his heart, I look to his words and actions and fruits to see if they line up with scriptures definition of what a Christian is.

Sitting in church, carrying around and quoting from the Bible, getting baptized, taking the sacraments does not make one a Christian, no more than standing in a garage makes one a car.

This is why I have doubts about Obamas faith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2o2fKbLJc8

First off he had a huge slip of the tongue. Had Stephanopoulis not corrected him, he never would have known the slip.

I never would slip and say......my Muslim faith, or Hindu faith or Jewish faith...because I don't have faith in any of them. Why would I say it? And why did Obama let this slip out? Does not make sense. And he said Muslim faith in the present tense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2o2fKbLJc8

Secondly his record and comments on abortion are simply unChristian. As he said in the Rick Warren interview....abortion is above his pay grade...except for wanting it legal especially so his daughters can get an abortion if they need to.

http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/07/obamaabortionrecord/

His comments.

While not voting against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA) at the national level, a position that would have for good reason been wildly unpopular, he was the only senator to argue against the legislation on the floor.

You might notice that Obama voted "present' on abortion and infanticide legislation for a good reason. He was coached by Planned Parenthood to vote this way as to cause more people who were considering voting pro-life to vote "present" with him, therefore nulligying their votes. If he really was against it he would have voted against it.

“Under the rules of the Illinois legislature, a present vote effectively functions as a no vote because only yes votes count toward passage of a bill. Legislators vote "present" rather than "no" for a variety of tactical reasons, including making it more difficult for their political opponents to use their votes against them in campaign advertisements.

"We worked on the 'present' vote strategy with Obama," said Pam Sutherland, chief lobbyist for the Illinois branch of Planned Parenthood, an abortion rights group. "He was willing to vote 'no', and was always going to be a 'no' vote for us."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_voting_record_on_aborti_1.html

"When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence education and teaching the children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information." Obama

His morals do not come from the scriptures.

This explains it better than anything, take the time to watch them.

http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign/62-reason-1

http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign/63-reason-2

http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign/64-reason-3

http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign/65-reason-4

http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign/66-reason-5

http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign/67-reason-6

http://www.christianadc.org/resources/seven-reasons-campaign/68-reason-7

Side: No
3 points

CT: "You've talked about your experience walking down the aisle at Trinity United Church of Christ, and kneeling beneath the cross, having your sins redeemed, and submitting to God's will. Would you describe that as a conversion? Do you consider yourself born again?"

Obama: "I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. I didn't 'fall out in church' as they say, but there was a very strong awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn't want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals.

"There is one thing that I want to mention that I think is important. Part of what we've been seeing during the course of this campaign is some scurrilous e-mails that have been sent out, denying my faith, talking about me being a Muslim, suggesting that I got sworn in at the U.S. Senate with a Quran in my hand or that I don't pledge allegiance to the flag. I think it's really important for your readers to know that I have been a member of the same church for almost 20 years, and I have never practiced Islam. I am respectful of the religion, but it's not my own. One of the things that's very important in this day and age is that we don't use religion as a political tool and certainly that we don't lie about religion as a way to score political points. I just thought it was important to get that in there to dispel rumors that have been over the Internet. We've done so repeatedly, but obviously it's a political tactic of somebody to try to provide this misinformation."

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/104-32.0.html?start=2

Side: yes

I sure hope not. We have more then enough of those nuts in power.

Side: I hope not
1 point

really were nuts, really well at least we dont think we came from things like fish and apes/monkeys/chimps/whatever

Side: yes
2 points

instead you think that an invisible man blew into the dust and created men who just happen to be >95% genetically the same as chimps...

Side: No
0 points

"really were nuts"

Some of the biggest the planet has to offer.

"from things like fish and apes/monkeys/chimps/whatever"

You are in plain and simple terms, a dumb fuck. I'll tell you what, get rid of that little piece of shit book of yours and your arguments for god become stronger. In fact bible pages make great toilet paper. Trust me, I know.

Side: No
2 points

He said and did what he did to get elected period.

And he knew if he said that his faith was anything but Christian...he would not have had a chance.

His wanting to be president did not start a few years ago but when he was in college. He has been preparing...and one thing he did was to sit in a church whose pastor spewed hatred about America, whites....that was contrary to the scriptures.

Does he go to bible studies? Does he openly do what Christ commands by witnessing to those who are unbelievers? Does he attend church? What actions does he do that look Christian?

Side: No
maccabaeus(231) Disputed
1 point

If we were discussing a white Leftist Christian from any mainline Protestant denomination, I doubt you would hold him up to the same criteria. President Obama is a baptized Christian from an African-American centered congregation. He is a liberal, but liberals are still Christians.

Side: yes
churchmouse(328) Disputed
2 points

I would hold them to the letter. I did not care for McCain and did not vote for him in the primary. I don't care for ANYONES worldview or politics who is leftist, no matter what color they are. You are the one with the color problem. The evidence that Obama is not what he said he was is overwhelming and you know it. The color thing.......all ya got.

Yes liberals can be Christians but not if they state unChristian things like Barack does.

Side: No
maccabaeus(231) Disputed
0 points

If you are implying that He was baptized Christian already thinking he was going to run for President someday, then you're out there in la-la land. His conversion was a genuine response to the Christian spirituality he experienced at the Harlem and Chicago black Churches he would attend. The black Gospel music was so beautiful to him that it moved his soul enough to be baptized. Please tell me you not a racist.

Side: yes
churchmouse(328) Disputed
2 points

Conversion to what? What was he?

He planned to run for President long before he started going to Wrights church he said so in the book he wrote.

Black black black.......black ......did he ever celebrate his mothers race?

Black churches are the best.......

I do know this.....

On February 27th, speaking to Kristof of The New York Times, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."

The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

"Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!

Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!

I witness that there is no god but Allah

I witness that there is no god but Allah

I witness that Muhammad is his prophet? "

Wonder how Christ felt about this?

Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." But then I doubt Obama knows this as he bashed the very Bible, God Word for his life.

I am not a racist and have a Herman Cain bumper sticker on my car. Yes I ordered it online. I support him and everything he stands for.

You think that because someone dislikes Obama it has to be about race...so sad and narrow minded you are.

You forget.......OBAMA IS HALF WHITE. I think even he forgets that dont you think?

Side: No
2 points

He said he is Islam but He was christian sometime in His life but I don't know what happened.

Side: No
Hellno(17753) Clarified
1 point

What happened was he's a jackass lying son of a bitch!!! That's what happened!

Side: Yes
1 point

He is not a Christian at all. The Chicago paper interviewed him about who Jesus Christ was and he said he was a historical man he was a carpenter and something else. He never said that Jesus was the Son of God or anything that made Jesus high. He is probably a muslim.

Side: No
Bohemian(3860) Disputed
7 points

You mean this interview?

FALSANI:

"Who's Jesus to you?"

OBAMA:

"Right. Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he's also a wonderful teacher. I think it's important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history."

Read the full Interview here: http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/obamas_fascinat.html

Side: Yes
2 points

His later statements, which I have listed thoroughly, make him more than a nominal Christian believer, but a Christian public figure. Please read it first!

Side: yes
-2 points
maccabaeus(231) Disputed
2 points

In all seriousness, do you think that the word 'muslim' is perhaps being used to hide the word 'n--ger'?

Side: yes
churchmouse(328) Disputed
0 points

ARe you calling me a racist? How dare you. But obviously its all you have because you did not dispute anything I said in my post.

The next president of the United States is going to be Herman Cain....partly because I AM A HUGE SUPPORTER. And guess what honey........he is 100% BLACK. For someone to imply that someone does not like Obama because he is black is someone who is racist themselves.

You are the one with the problems.

Side: No
frank33dunla(2) Disputed
2 points

This statement is without merit. For example: Who is the Chicago paper? The interviewer could have been very biased ( probably a Republican). The interviewer didn't ask him a direct question about this statement: "Barack Obama bowed before the cross at a Christian Church, the minister was there, when he confessed Jesus as his Lord and personal savior, which happened 20 years before he ran for office and religiously attended church every Sunday for all those years." Now you tell me you believe Obama is a Muslim? Sir or madam you have not listened very well and/or have not done much research to seek the real Truth. Obama IS a born again Christian. I've listened and done much research. Having a Master's Degree and post graduate hours to become a certified school Principal, I believe my argument has much more strength than the person who's argument is that Obama is a Muslim - how asinine this is.

Side: Yes
2 points

Obama is Christian, period...

A Sampling of Quotes from Barack Obama

As somebody who relies heavily on my Christian faith in my job, I understand the passions that religious faith can raise.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

(The story of Jesus’ birth) that we are called to love each other as we love ourselves, that we are our brother’s keeper and our sister’s keeper, and our destinies are linked…It’s a message that guides my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

(We can) see God in other people and do our best to help them find their, you know, their own grace…So that’s what I strive to do…That’s what I pray to do everyday. I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I found myself drawn – not just to work with the church but to be in the church…It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.

- President Barack Obama, University of Notre Dame (May 17, 2010)

It was because of these new-found understandings – that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking…that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized…But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt God’s spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King – indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history – were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their “personal morality” into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

- Barack Obama (June 28, 2006)

There is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease…The work ahead will not be easy, and there will be setbacks. There will be challenges along the way. But thanks to you, thanks to the great people of this great city, New Orleans is blossoming again.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I am a Christian by choice…I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead…Being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper. Treating others as they would treat me. And I think also understanding that you know, that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility that we all have to have as human beings.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I’m a Christian by choice. My family didn’t-frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn’t raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead-being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me….

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead: being my brother’s and sister’s keeper, treating others as they would treat me…I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

It’s interesting listening to the girls, what they pray for…They’ll talk about family and thanking God for blessing us, but they’ll always add a little twist: ‘I hope we have a great Thanksgiving, I can’t wait to see the cousins…They used to pray for a dog, until we got a dog.

- President Barack Obama, commenting on the Obama family prayer before dinner

It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us.

- First Lady Michelle Obama

I’d just sit in the back and I’d listen to the choir and I’d listen to the sermon…There were times that I would just start tearing up listening to the choir and share that sense of release..

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

Side: Yes
1 point

Well with all the lies he'd told, you can't believe anything he says, so I'm sticking with no.

Side: No

No he isn't. But why does that matter? The president could be a Satanist for all I care. As long as he does his job well I'm happy. Obama hasn't done his job well but I'm mostly talking about presidents in general.

Side: No
1 point

Who cares? He's a piece of shit and that's all that matters to me!!!

Side: No
maccabaeus(231) Disputed
1 point

He is a good family man who has been a model husband and father, unlike many so-called right-wing Christians who divorce, commit adultery, and neglect their children.

Side: Yes
1 point

He supports gay marriage and I actually think he's a muslim.

Side: No
maccabaeus(231) Disputed
1 point

It is a very saddening occurrence that Obama has come out in support of gay marriage. So far, 32 different states have held referendum on gay marriage. They were voted down every time. What comes next polygamy? Incest? Bestiality? If it does not matter what gender one desires to marry, why not allow marriage to a sister, father, or even one's pet dog or horse? After gay marriage, anything goes!

Side: Yes
1 point

Don't know, don't care! He sucks balls and needs to go!

Side: No
1 point

I think, it just an argument, Obama does not have instead of religion, but many say that they cant name Obama religion. many sorces that mentioned Obama has a bla,bla,bla and bla religion. but im sure, he just keeping right his beliveness. may you can read this one : http://godvoter.org/Barack-Obama-religion.html

Side: No