Mary Anna (8 Feb 2015)
"Barack Obama Is Not a Christian in Any Meaningful Way"
http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/06/barack-obama-is-not-a-christian-in-any-meaningful-way/
Barack Obama Is Not a Christian in Any Meaningful Way
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | |
Barack Obama is not, in any meaningful way, a Christian and I am not
sure he needs to continue the charade. With no more elections for him,
he might as well come out as the atheist/agnostic that he is.1 He took
his first step in doing so yesterday in a speech reeking with contempt
for faith in general and Christianity in particular.
Saying that violent acts are not representative of Islam, the President
then attacked Christians for the Crusades (started as a response to
Islamic invasion), the Inquisition (a Catholic thing, not us
Protestants), slavery (abolished thanks to Christians), and Jim Crow
(Dr. King also had a ³Reverend² in front of his name).
Despite the interpretations and defenses of the President on what he
meant, he gave away the game with a bit of the speech not given nearly
as much play in the media. From the transcript:
I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt not being so
full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks
only to us, and doesnıt speak to others, that God only cares about us
and doesnıt care about others, that somehow we alone are in possession
of the truth.
Christ said, ³I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to
the Father but through Me.² (John 14:6) Christ himself is truth. When
we possess Christ, we possess truth. The President is a moral
relativist. It was clear in his whole speech. He cannot condemn and
attack ISIS as he should because in his mind what is truth? Truth is a
nebulous concept with our post-modern President. With truth a nebulous
concept, right and wrong are too.
We know God cares about everyone. We know Christ came to die for
sinners. But Christians know Christ is truth itself. To have truth, we
must have Christ. To suggest that everyone can have some version of God
and some version of truth is worldly babbling, not Christianity.
The President followed up those words with these:
And so, as people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those
who try to distort our religion any religion for their own
nihilistic ends.
I agree.
So I wish the President would stop professing himself to be a Christian
if he is not going to proclaim Christ as truth and the only way to
salvation. The ³all paths² nonsense and moral equivalence might fit in
with the present age, but the present age does not really fit with
Christ.
And as for doubts on whether Iım right, ³the starting point of faith is
some doubt² in my ability to save myself, not in whether Iım right. I
know Iım a sinner. I know I cannot save myself. I have no doubt that
Christ is the only way. Itıs not that Iım right, but that Christ is
right. So, Mr. President, get off your own high horse.
1. No, despite what some think, Barack Obama is not a closet Muslim.
Islam teaches that ³there is no god but God, Mohammed is the messenger
of God.² Obamaıs name is neither Allah nor Mohammed. Therefore, there is
no room for him to presume himself a god. So, Obama with faith only in
himself, must be an atheist/agnostic.?