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Furthermore, he is so
self-important and narcissistic
-- full of himself, as
it were -- that it is
difficult to see beyond
those negative qualities
to find any belief in the
supremacy of the
traditional Christian
concept of God. It is
even more difficult,
therefore, to see the
president as being filled with God's Holy
Spirit, as Christians
believe occurs with acceptance of Jesus
as Lord and Saviour.
Of course, we are all
sinners and, as a
convert to
 Christianity
myself, I readily
confess the possibility
that there may be
judgmentalism in my
opinionated
writings about the
president. But other
than when he has reached
for some cheap laughs
during a media roast,
when did you ever hear
the president admit to,
let alone apologize for,
any of his own human frailties.
When you read Obama's
own spontaneous remarks
about his religion
(in
the panel to the right)
it is obvious
that, to say the least
and to be fair, he is
conflicted. |
"...I am a Christian. So, I
have a deep faith. So I draw from
the Christian faith. On the
other hand, I was born in Hawaii
where obviously there are a lot of
Eastern influences. I lived in
Indonesia, the largest Muslim
country in the world, between the
ages of six and ten.
My father was from Kenya, and
although he was probably most
accurately labeled an agnostic, he
was Muslim.
So, I'm rooted in the
Christian tradition. I
believe that there are
many paths to the same
place, and that is a
belief that there is a
higher power, a belief
that we are connected as
a people. That there are
values that transcend
race or culture, that
move us forward, and
there's an obligation
for all of us
individually as well as
collectively to take
responsibility to make
those values lived..."
-Barack Obama |