By Michael Snyder, on September 27th, 2013
You are about to read some of the most shocking
quotes that Barack Obama has ever uttered in public. A few of these have been widely circulated,
but most of them are very obscure. Even
though he claims to be a Christian, throughout his political career Obama has
repeatedly attacked traditional Biblical Christianity and he has a very long
history of anti-Christian actions. In
public speeches he has repeatedly cast doubt on the Bible, he has repeatedly
stated that he does not believe that Jesus is necessary for salvation, and he
has consistently said that he believes that all “people of faith” believe in
the same God. At the same time, Obama
has always referred to Muhammed as “the Prophet”, he has always expressed great
love and respect for Islam, and he has even removed all references to Islam
from terror training materials used by federal government agencies. So what in the world does “the leader of the
free world” actually believe? Read the
quotes below and decide for yourself…
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam
#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 Obama About Christianity
#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.”
My opinion: I like Michael Snyder’s warning. Will
anyone heed it?
Shalom!
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