Obama’s Not Christian!
Anyone who has paid attention to the campaign must surely know by now that Senator Barack Hussein Obama is not a Christian by anyone’s definition of the word. Just to be clear, I am not saying this because of the picture of him wearing a turban when he was younger, his education at a Muslim school from 1967 to 1971 or because his middle name is Hussein. (Please note that I have avoided using his middle name in this site in all postings until this one. I have not wanted to give anyone the impression that his name is relevant to his running for president. I am trying to make a larger point here.)
All these facts have been used against him, but what is really worrisome is that you do not hear any Christian beliefs coming from him at all. This is not to say that you must be Christian to run for office, but Obama professes to be Christian and does not support any of its tenets. He is perpetrating the biggest political hoax of all time. This is a man who not only supports abortion under any circumstance, but has also supported infanticide by rejecting Illinois legislation known as the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2001-2002. This legislation would have required abortion providers to provide immediate health care to any infant born alive after a failed abortion. If you cannot support that legislation, you cannot call yourself a Christian, or even a member of most other faiths.
Here is some video about the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and how then Illinois State Senator Obama handled it:
Gianna Jessen, who was adopted, agreed to film a commercial against Obama. She is a survivor of a failed abortion and is angry at Obama because his lack of action would lead to people like her being suffocated to death or left to die without any human rights. Obama voted four times against the Born-Alive Infant Protection act. Here is her ad against Obama.
In addition to the ad, Gianna Jessen went on the television show Hannity & Colmes to explain her position and to describe what had happened to her. She feels it is her mission to change the views of those that believe that it is alright to leave a living baby to die. She is a real Christian–not Senator Obama.
I addition to his unapologetic views on abortion and infanticide, Senator Obama has views on Jesus, Christianity, and gay marriage that are completely at odds with the views of Christianity. The following video has a compilation of some of his statements over the last year. Please note that his viewpoints are always secular. (Please do not click on the video if you do not want to see graphic images. This video contains very raw footage of aborted babies.)
Once you examine the facts about Senator Obama, you realize that he has no Christian beliefs whatsoever. His only claim to Christianity are his visits to the Trinity United Church of Christ. According to him, these visits can’t be counted either since he was not paying attention to what Reverend Jeremiah Wright was saying in the church. He claims he did not know that his pastor was repeatedly, "damning America." This is a common response for Senator Obama. He has also claimed not to know what Ayers, Rezco, or Acorn were saying or doing. If he truly is so naive, can we afford to have him as president? You know the answer to that.
I think that if Obama were honest he would say that he is a secular progressive and that he is not religious at all. Of course, he cannot say that because he fears that the Christians in this country and the members of many other faiths would not elect him. He believes what is convenient to get ahead and that is the most dangerous of all belief systems.
Posted: October 23rd, 2008 under All, Fact, News, Opinion.
Tags: abortion, Born Alive Act, Christian, gay marriage, infanticide, secular progressive
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Time October 26, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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Time October 26, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Please read my response at http://www.democratssuck.com/?p=144.
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Comment from gonglification proclamation
Time October 25, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I find you thesis that Obama is not a Christian to be unfounded. Below I’ve address some of your talking points in turn.
“…not a Christian by anyone’s definition of the word.”
Point negated by your failure to define “Christian”. Regardless, whatever the word means to you personally, Merriam-Webster defines it simply as “One who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Obama has professed such a belief. That he doesn’t meet your personal standard is immaterial to your case.
“He is perpetrating the biggest political hoax of all time.”
Even if it were true, how this is relevant to the question of Obama’s religious affiliation I have no idea. I’d point out everything that is wrong with your statement, but Dahlia Lithwick has already done it. Have some knowledge: http://www.slate.com/id/2202428
“This is a man who not only supports abortion under any circumstance…”
Any time Obama has opposed restrictions on partial birth abortion it has been because the legislation in question didn’t provide for the health of the mother. Here’s a quote from Obama, “On an issue like partial birth abortion, I strongly believe that the state can properly restrict late-term abortions. I have said so repeatedly. All I’ve said is we should have a provision to protect the health of the mother, and many of the bills that came before me didn’t have that.”
“…but has also supported infanticide by rejecting Illinois legislation known as the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2001-2002.”
This was little more than yet another attempt to shoehorn the legal foundations needed to take another shot at Roe v Wade. Legally, this piece of legislation was redundant in that Illinois law already dictated that “any physician” performing an abortion was required to preserve the life of the fetus if at all possible. Read the law: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/072005100K6.htm
“…Senator Obama has views on Jesus, Christianity, and gay marriage that are completely at odds with the views of Christianity.”
You don’t even try to support this point. The youtube clip show you offer as evidence is little more than a series of quotes taken out of context and cobbled together, interspersed with bible verses and fetuses for shock value.
I find it particularly funny that whoever made the video seems to take great exception to Obama saying that there are Muslims who are “decent, kind, good people” and are “no less, children of God.” That quote plays several times. I suppose Obama could cement his Christian credentials by saying “All Muslims are evil”? Even if you won’t allow that the followers of Christianity and Islam pray to the same God, aren’t Muslims no less “children of God” simply be virtue of being here? Isn’t that a particularly Christian view to hold?
Incidentally, what were Jesus’ views on gay marriage? So far as I know, he never addressed it. How then can a “Christian” (or “One who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ”) be judged for his views on the matter?
So far as Obama’s “views on Jesus” are concerned, it seems to me that the only view a person could have on Jesus that would prevent them from reasonably self-identifying as Christian would be, “I think Jesus was crazy and am not interested in His teachings.” Has Obama said that?
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Basically, your post is a case study in the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. The generally applicable definition of Christian fits Obama just fine. You’ve gone further and added a bunch of arbitrarily defined sub conditions that, while relevant to you, don’t speak to the matter of Christianity on the whole in any meaningful sense.
Your thesis would be better phrased as, “Obama fails to meet my rather narrow, politically-motivated view of Christianity.” Sure, it lacks the punch of the original—but it’s no longer total BS.
Sorry I don’t have time to help with the rest.
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