Inside Obama's God Ops
Friday September 19, 2008
Barack Obama is not giving up on faith-based voters. While polls seem to show voters stuck in same pattern as 2004, despite the Democrat's persistent outreach and God talk, the campaign is redoubling its efforts and rejecting suggestions that the...
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I figure Obama is a tough sell with his record on religion and Rev. Wrights "God Damn America" diatribes. Obama stands diametrically opposed to what most Christians believe. Jesus never said to look to the Caesar to do good works for you. Jesus called us to give of our own free will not to look to confiscate through legalized thievery the goods of others to fund our good deeds. Jesus never would have supported the killing of innocents and the casting off of the elderly and sick for the convenience of the young. Jesus also called us to are better angels not or bitter same cynical ones. Obama and his plans are those of the faithless. He runs on hope yet tells us we are hopeless. His brand of bastardized Christianity will not appeal to those in Jesusland. His brand appeals to those for who Christ was a ten pound weakling with a way with words.
Oh, my, oh, my! And this is what you call being "Christ-like" Mael?
If you don't like what Obama is stating---don't vote for him. But remarks like this do not clarify the situation at all. A "bastardized" Christianity is hardly what Obama is trying to sell. He is not trying to go out of his way to reach the one issue Christians---e.g. those who think that "Abortion" should be the only issue. But for those who believe that Life-issues do not end at Birth---he does have something to offer. I am not planning to vote for Obama. But in dealing with all candidates---let's be fair and let's deal with the issues, and let's avoid the unsubstantiated clap-trap.
I have read accounts of Barack Obama as senator in Ill. There he clearly supported--not just abortion-on-demand, but also infanticide lest abortions become too complicated with extra doctors brought in. The accurate story of his despicable actions (including his being caught in blatant lies to try to make the issue go away) are on many Christian and Catholic sites.
If America votes for such a creature to be its president--then Rev. Wright is right--"God Damn America" for America will deserve to be damned.
When those of you on the Radical Far Right stop talking to hear yourselves rant then come and say something intelligent, I will listen. The lives of our families are in jeopardy because of bad business practices by "Christians" who honor profits instead of the prophets.
How godly is it to put people out of work, cancel medical insurance, cut programs and pensions for the working men and women and to reward the people who are on "Cooperate Welfare"?
How Christlike is it to torture and imprison people of other faiths because they may be a threat (real or imagined) to our security. Or to spy on your citizens because they have a name that sounds like it may be Islamic?
What Would Jesus Do? He would cast the lot of you out of the temple.
Those who truly live in Christ, are not condemning Obama, they are praying for him. They are not dragging the name of either candidates through the mud and making false witnesses of themselves, they are praying that our country gets back on track. It is the choice of each of us to vote as we see fit. It is not the choice to speak with anger or with malice, for God will not hear the prayers of the unrighteous, nor those of the slanderer.
I think neither candate is good for Are Country,it
is to bad that we do not have a candate for the people
As far as I'm concerned THE ONLY ISSUE THAT MATTERS in this election is whether or not the candidates believe that Jesus Christ was born onto this earth, that he is their (each candidates) personal savior, and that each individual, each family, each state........THIS COUNTRY AND THIS WORLD............will fail without Him as the primary focus!
I don't know the political facts like a lot of other people do......I wish I did so I could argue them, but I know something bigger and far more important: I know that I love Jesus.......Jesus loves each of us..........and if we put a leader in the seat of Commander-in-Chief that doesn't love Jesus, then we better pray that the second coming of Christ is Nov. 5th, 2008!
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