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The faith-based pro-Obama PAC Matthew 25 Network has posted its rejoinder to Focus on the Family's letter from 2012, which looked back on what Focus considers a disastrous Obama first term.
Matthew 25 is also out with two Christian radio ads, to air in Michigan, Colorado, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina. One is aimed directly at evangelicals and features Obama giving Christian testimony and sounding very much like a born again himself:
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Nancy and Jim, you are both right. Christians on the right (and it's a shame that we are divided on what man will lead this country) focus only on the abortion and gay rights issues in America. No matter who is elected, no matter what judges are selected, abortions will not stop. If abortion is deemed illegal by the courts, women will still go to Mexico, Canada, or some unhealthy, unsafe back alley clinic to get one. We have to deal with the root cause of why women get abortions. Women have abortions because they were either raped; had casual, unprotected sex; were victims of incest; committed adultery and didn't want their husbands to find out; were pressured by their male partner; or their career was too important at that time to stop and have a baby (among others). There needs to be a change of mindset in this country when it comes to this issue; and it begins in the church. The bad things about all these reasons why women get abortion is that Christian women are battling these issues almost at the same rate as non-Christians. Only God can change the heart of a man. We are kind of like the people of Israel told Samuel that they wanted a king to rule over them (like other nations) and go and fight their battles for them. We sound like them; looking for a man to fight our battles for us, when the God of the Universe has already proven over and over again that He fights our battles, not man.
To your points (Nancy and Jim), God wants us to care for our brothers and sisters who are downtrodden, poor, poor in spirit, the widow, and fatherless. I don't hear that from John McCain. And I as a Christian will be voting for Barak Obama.
It's sad to keep reading about debates among Christians (or any religion). Frankly most of you haven't read the Bible enough to realize it can be used to support any agenda. After all, after two millenia, at least, I'd thought some consensus would emerge rather than the vitriol that seems to fill the pulpits from left to right.
For a few examples, click on the link for "Positive Atheism's Big Scary List of Holy Bible Quotations." It's a list of a few bible passages you may have skipped over or not have read. In this case, I don't care about context; these passages simply should not be found in any authoritative book on ethics and morals.
Too many people are using religion to drive politics. It's time to move past that and have a truly secular government that represents everyone, not just christians.
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I hate to burst the people who believe Barack Obama's bubble, but he is NOT a Christian. His "testimony" nowhere indicates that he believes in the resurrection, which is the key to salvation. Of course there are millions of others in the same boat, which is exactly how Christ revealed that it would be in the end times before His return. Obama talks about "the way to salvation." There is no "way" or "path" to salvation. Salvation comes through a person. Also, don't be fooled by good works. Christ and the New Testament authors made clear that salvation is a free gift bestowed by God on those who have faith in the death, burial and resurrection of his Son and that trying to gain God's favor through good works is the path to eternal damnation. Christians are those who have accepted the message of the death, burial AND resurrection. Leave any of those out, and you have just one more religion.
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