XPost: alt.politics.clinton, alt.journalism, alt.politics.usa.republican
XPost: soc.retirement

From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to

have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers
equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation
or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love
are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the
Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more
defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”

WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM
Since 2009, NOW THE END BEGINS has brought you story after story
in detailed accounts of exactly how Obama feels about Islam, and
how he views Christianity and the Bible. So today, in light of
recent events in Washington, we feel it important that you know
exactly where your president stands in regards to his faith and
his god. Below are 20 quotes he has made about Islam, and 20
quotes he has made about Christianity. Nothing edited or mashed
up, just exactly in the context he originally spoke them in with
fully-sourced links so you can see where they come from.

If after reading this, you still want to think he is not a
Muslim, then that will be your right to do so. But it won’t be
because someone didn’t try to warn you and open your eyes to the
truth.

20 QUOTES BY BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ABOUT ISLAM AND MOHAMMED
#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet
of Islam”

#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”

#3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith,
which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world —
including in my own country.”

#4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to
Islam.”

#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”

#6 “Islam has always been part of America”

#7 “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim
communities”

#8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in
common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress,
tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”

#9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in
competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles
of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human
beings.”

#10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at
war with Islam.”

#11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent
extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

#12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to
the region where it was first revealed”

#13 “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have
been at the forefront of innovation and education.”

#14 “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words
and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial
equality.”

#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great
diversity and racial equality”

#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you
male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes
so that you may know one another.’”

#17 “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating
Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a
blessed month.”

#18 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim
immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the
railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped
build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the
secrets of our universe.”

#19 “That experience guides my conviction that partnership
between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not
what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as
president of the United States to fight against negative
stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

#20 “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s
story.”

20 QUOTES BY BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ABOUT CHRISTIANITY AND THE
BIBLE
#1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”

#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

#3 “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?
Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and
that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with
Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from
the faith?”

#4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions
between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten
Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are
central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally
specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”

#5 “The American people intuitively understand this, which is
why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of
those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a
Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need
not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they
should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”

#6 From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to
have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers
equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation
or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love
are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the
Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more
defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”

#7 Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is:
“Being out of alignment with my values.”

#8 “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus
Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was
to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would
they.”

#9 “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates
with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult
thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at
some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize.
There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people
haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that
they’re going to hell.”

#10 “I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-
fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God would
allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with
the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s
just not part of my religious makeup.”

#11 “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I
die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the
here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my
faith and my values is a good thing.”

#12 “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in
the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother,
who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do
not believe she went to hell.”

#13 “Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s
will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle
that is accessible to people of all faiths.”

#14 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people
find that controversial then I would just refer them to the
Sermon on the Mount.”

#15 “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a
lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now
for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through
the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and
each successive administration has said that somehow these
communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not
surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion
or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations.”

#16 “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad
Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and
African mythology”

#17 “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to
church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the
Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient
Hawaiian burial sites.”

#18 “We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics,
Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to
revere and respect as much as our own”

#19 “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when
the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children
grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great
faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when
Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians
and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to
mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra — (applause)
— as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed,
peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”

#20 “I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and
that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we
are connected as a people.”

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/40-mind-blowing-quotes-barack- hussein-obama-islam-christianity/
 

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)