Therapon, I reread the posts looking for evidence of the accusations of you "usurping God's authority"
He claims Obama is not Christian. He continues to insist on that, using poorly edited videos that have been clipped and spliced to string together times when Obama has said "I" in one case, "am" in another, and "Muslim" in a third. They are obviously edit jobs, and not even very good edit jobs at that.
If someone is honestly fooled by those videos, and honestly thinks Obama is admitting he is Muslim, then they are stupid beyond belief. I seriously cannot fathom how anyone wouldn't see through it.
Obama has stated publicly, for the record, that he is a Christian. He attends church regularly, he prays to Jesus, and when asked what religion he belongs to, he states that he is Christian every single time. If you do not believe that he is Christian, you are judging his salvation. The only way you can do that is to claim that you have some sort of inside knowledge -- something that no human outside of Jesus Christ could possibly have.
Therefore, Therapon is usurping God's authority, plain and simple. He can recant and apologize, as I said, or continue. It really doesn't make a difference to me -- what he does is between him and God. I'm simply pointing out a fact.
Listen, I'm not particularly thrilled with brother Barack. He has done quite a few things I don't agree with. Some of his actions certainly seem less Christ-like than I would like. Has he sinned? Absolutely. If sinning disqualifies someone from being a Christian, then there are no Christians on this planet.
So Barack spoke highly of the Islamic culture. How does that make him a Muslim? If I say I like tacos does that make me a Mexican? Seriously, that's how idiotic it is to say that speaking highly of a culture means you must be one. The Western world DOES owe a lot to Islamic culture. While Europeans were eating raw meat with their hands and hitting people on the head with clubs, Arabs and Persians had developed higher mathematics and already knew that the world wasn't flat. That is noteworthy. It doesn't mean you're ashamed of being white, it's simply understanding a little world culture.
So Barack is polite to people in other cultures. Bush bowed to the leaders in China and Korea, and no one accused him of being slanty-eyed. Reagan spoke a little Russian when he visited the Kremlin: does that mean he was a Commie Pinko? Of course not. Why, then, do you think just because Obama bowed to some Arab leader, all of a sudden he must be Muslim? I refuse to believe you're that stupid. No one can be that stupid.
Seriously, there are plenty of things that Obama has done that warrant criticism. He has continued a war started by his predecessor, one he criticized at the time, but he continues the blood bath. That's certainly not very Christ-like. Why not use THAT as evidence against his Christianity? Perhaps because every president -- and a whole lot of ministers -- would also be excluded if that were the litmus test.
I'm not thrilled with Obama's continued restrictions of personal rights and freedom through the Patriot Act. But this is not a reflection on his faith or lack thereof. After all, again, it was his predecessor who started that act. If the Patriot Act is an anti-Christian document, then you'd have to say Bush was a non-Christian before Obama.
Obama has criticized some religious leaders. Yes, and so did Jesus, you may remember. So I'm not sure how that can be seen as evidence for his lack of Christianity.
Call him a liberal, I will agree 100%. Call him a war-monger, and you'll find in me a soul-sister. Call him a power-hungry political talking-head, and I'm in your Amen corner.
But judge his faith just because you personally don't like him? That is uncalled for, that is sin, and I absolutely will call you on it every time.
Regardless, thank you for the link. I had seen Obama make most of those speeches, but I had not seen the footage of him bowing to a Muslim king as our president!!!! OUTLANDISH!!! No other president would dream of such. Millions of people see right thru Obama, according to HIS words & HIS actions. Other people will continue to idolize him, treat him as a celebrity, worship him, or align themselves with him fondly because of his supposed ideology. These people, as we have seen over & over again, REFUSE to investigate the matter & depend solely on what the news media tells them to think:CNN, FOX, ABC,CBS,NBC, etc. It's as if a "veil" was covering their eyes.
