Obama in more hot water with churches.

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Obama's Nonbeliever Nod Unsettles Some

By MELINDA HENNENBERGER

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posted: 1 HOUR 12 MINUTES AGO

comments: 928

filed under: Political News, Inauguration, The Obama Presidency

(Jan. 23) - Not everyone was happy with President Barack Obama's nod to nonbelievers and non-Christians in his inaugural address. And some of the stiff criticism about Obama’s religious inclusiveness is coming from African-American Christians who maintain that no, all faiths were actually not created equal.

"For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness," the new president said. "We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this earth," he also said. Nothing too controversial, proclaiming that America's strength lies in its diversity.

But between those two statements, the new president got specific: "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers."

 

By mentioning, for the first time in an inaugural address, the 16.1 percent of Americans who check "no"’ when asked about religion, Obama turned it into the most controversial line in his speech -- praised by The New York Times editorial board and cited by some Christians as evidence that he is a heretic, and in his well-spoken way, a serious threat.

With that one line, the president "seems to be trying to redefine American culture, which is distinctively Christian," said’ Bishop E.W. Jackson of the Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake, Va. "The overwhelming majority of Americans identify as Christians, and what disturbs me is that he seems to be trying to redefine who we are.’"

Earlier this week, Jackson was a guest on the popular conservative Christian radio show 'Janet Parshall's America,' where a succession of callers, many of whom identified themselves as African-American, said they shared the concern, and were perplexed and put off by the president’s shout-out to nonbelievers.

 

Parshall noted that atheists were celebrating the unexpected mention, and indeed they were: "In his inaugural address … President Barack Obama did what many before him should have done, rightly citing the great diversity of America as part of the nation's great strength, and including 'nonbelievers'’ in that mix,’" said Ed Buckner of American Atheists.

"His mother would have been proud,"’ Buckner said, referring to the fact that Obama’s mother was not a church-goer. "And so are we."

Jackson said he and others have no problem acknowledging that "this country is one in which everybody has the freedom to think what they want.’" Yet Obama crossed the line, in his view, in suggesting that all faiths (and none) were different roads to the same destination: "He made similar remarks in the campaign, and said, 'We are no longer a Christian nation, if we ever were. We are a Jewish, Hindu and non-believing nation.'"

Not so, Jackson says: "Obviously, Jewish heritage is very much a part of Christianity; the Jewish Bible is part of our Bible. But Hindu, Muslim, and nonbelievers? I don't think so. We are not a Muslim nation or a nonbelieving nation."’

With all the focus on Obama as the first African-American president, the succession of black callers to Janet Parshall's show was a reminder that the "community"’ is not a monolith, and that many socially conservative black Americans are at odds with Obama's views, particularly on abortion and gay rights. Nor do they all define civil rights in the same way.

The Rev. Cecil Blye, pastor of More Grace Ministries Church in Louisville, Ky., said the president's reference to nonbelievers also set off major alarm bells for him. "It's important to understand the heritage of our country, and it's a Judeo-Christian tradition,"’ period.

But his even bigger beef with the president, he said, is that a disproportionate number of "black kids are dying each day through abortion. President Obama is supportive of abortion, and that's a genocide on black folks. Nobody wants to talk about that as a civil rights issue."

 

 

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It seems that BHO is setting himself up to not be re-elected in 2012. It should also be noted that since he left Jeremiah Wright church, that he has been honing his hoop skills at a recreational facility. He has said that he is "shopping" for a church in the D.C. area. This guy has cafeteria religious beliefs and no moral fiber. How can we believe him on anything in the next 4 years ?

[CAPTTIGER]

Real Christian churches will always have a problem with Barry boy and his lack of morals.

[Owensas]

16.1%? Thats a lot higher than I thought admitted it, interesting.

[HouTex]

Well I am glad he is speaking his mind, and telling the people what he believes.

I guess some people would rather just be spoonfed what they want to hear.

[applebutter]

Well I am glad he is speaking his mind, and telling the people what he believes.

I guess some people would rather just be spoonfed what they want to hear.

Since you obviously like hearing what you're being spoonfed, I'll put you in that category.

[DaveTV1]

Well I am glad he is speaking his mind, and telling the people what he believes.

I guess some people would rather just be spoonfed what they want to hear.

 

Rockon1885, you're young and I understand that. Your wisdom is coming through. Some of the U.S. did want to be spoonfed, because that's what they wanted to hear. It's not what they needed to hear.

[Medman7]

One by one his policies will prove he is not the Christian that he claimed during his campaign. Looks like he is starting the path down an afformentioned road that will start lining things up. THe older generatiion is getting really worried about him!

[DaveTV1]

One by one his policies will prove he is not the Christian that he claimed during his campaign. Looks like he is starting the path down an afformentioned road that will start lining things up. THe older generatiion is getting really worried about him!

 

I think one by one: BHO's policies will show that he is not the politician that the spoonfed generation thought was their Me Sigh Ugggh !!

 

I'm actually starting to think that the collapse of the U.S.S.R. was a bad thing. At least when they were around, no one in the U.S. wanted to turn to socialism and their ills. Now, they embrace it with open arms.