Obama: “I’ve always been a Christian.”
At a coffee shop stop at the Smokey Row in Pleasantville, Iowa, a woman Barack Obama sat down to chat with asked about his religious upbringing. Herewith the transcript from our Obama embed producer, Bonney Kapp:
Woman: I have a question I would really like to ask you. With a Muslim background, how would that effect how you would lead the United States of America? Â
Obama: “This is something that keeps on being misreported, so I’m glad you asked me. My father was from Kenya and a lot of people in his village were Muslim. He didn’t practice Islam. Truth is he wasn’t very religious. He met my mother. My mother was a Christian from Kansas and they married, and then divorced. I was raised by my mother. So, I’ve always been a Christian. I’ve never practiced Islam. For awhile, I lived in Indonesia because my mother was teaching there. And that’s a Muslim country. And I went to school. But I didn’t practice. But what I do think it does is it gives me insight into how these folks think. And Part of how I think we can create a better relationship with the middle east and that would help make us safer is if we can understand how they think about issues. But I’m a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ and have been for fifteen years.
The woman then asked Obama if “you believe in Jesus Christ?”
Obama: “I believe he was our Lord and savior.”
Woman: “Well you’re right and I don’t think enough of people go to church.”
Considering that Clinton endorsee and former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey brought up Obama’s ties to Islam on Sunday and then sent a letter of apology to Obama on Wednesday, it appears the question of Obama’s religious roots still needs answering and may lurk in the minds of Iowa Democrats in ways as yet undected by the Obama campaign. Of course, these concerns/anxieties may be impossible to detect, thus complicating Obama’s last-minute push for turnout in advance of the caucuses.
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Is that why Fox keeps bringing it up? So it “may lurk in the minds of Iowa Democrats”?
Come on Major, isn’t there more important issues to discuss than an already debunked attempt at “swift boating” Barack Obama?
The day Fox News listed Obama’s church’s website I visited the website. It is a VERY pro AFRICIAN church. A large picture of the continent of AFRICA popped up on the screen. The website gave off a very strong racist tone. Racisim has no place in church or christianty. Because of the website’s tone I found it very distrubing. I was going to show it to my spouse the next day; however the church actually changed the website! Obviously others did exactly what I did and the church attempted to change the appearance. It was too late for me.
I’m surprised the media hasn’t had more to say about it. God knows they attacked everyone else.
Why didn’t Obama mention his step dad. His real dad abandoned him when he was very young but his step dad has been in his life ever since…..his step dad is a devoute, radical, muslim….omitting the facts is the same as lying.
How easily we judge others the way we hate to be judged.
I am not impressed with Obama’s religious claims.
The Bible does not say that Christ “WAS” our Lord and Saviour, it claims Christ “IS” a true Christians Lord and Saviour.
There is a huge difference.
Oh and being raised in a “Christian home ” does not make one a Christian and going to church does not make one a Christian.
A Christian is one who has made the LIVING CHRIST ..Lord and Saviour of their life. (present tense)
One who sees themselves as the sinners that we are and has repented of their sins and turned to the Lord for the forgiveness that only He can give.
For a good read on the Truth of Salvation and true Christianity.. do not look at politics but read the Word of Truth for yourself starting in the book of John then Romans in the New Testament.
If you have an open heart you will meet the LIVING Christ for yourself.
Dear Sir/Ms.
As a Black American, 72 years old, born in Albany, Georgia and a retired USAF Master Sergent, I find myself still baffled and incensed with the state of Race relations in the United States.
Until White people the world over, and especially in the U.S., decides to deal with other races as human beings of equal worth, and due the same respect as they themselves demands, the conflicts will continue.
Although great progress is being made, it is always at the point of a gun or with much bloodshed.
We as Black must first face the facts as they are, then do those things that will be deifying to us as individuals and as a race. Last but not least, all must be done in love. It will not be easy.
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