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2007-03-13 05:49:36 · 6 answers · asked by SASHA M 3 in Politics & Government Other - Politics & Government

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He belongs to a United Church of Christ church in Chicago. The denomination is very liberal, supporting abortion, gay marriage etc. Obama's own church (Trinity UCC) is Afro-centric. In their own words:

We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

Commitment to God
Commitment to the Black Community
Commitment to the Black Family
Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.

2007-03-13 06:01:38 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Wisdom 4 · 0 1

usual Church of Christ, a denomination of Christianity inspite of the indisputable fact that there doctrine isn't comparable to mainstream Christianity. A cultish flavor to it with many administration subjects with its contributors. He studied as a childrens at a Muslim college and at a Catholic college. His father and step father have been the two Muslim and his mom has been debated as being the two agnostic, atheist or Christian, I even have heard various countless issues on her, however the father and step fathers history have remained comparable to has Obama's.

2016-09-30 21:02:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Despite assertions that he is a "radical muslim" Barack Obama is a Christian and has been a member of the Church of Christ for nearly 20 years.

2007-03-13 05:54:09 · answer #3 · answered by RMarcin 3 · 1 0

He went from being agnostic to Christian. His father was raised as a muslim, but became an athiest. Not sure about his mother though.

2007-03-13 05:55:26 · answer #4 · answered by panthrchic 4 · 0 0

WASH—Jan 15—KIN-- He was born of a Muslim father and an atheist mother, who in his own words was "a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, and position paper liberalism." She divorced when he was two years old and remarried another Muslim living in Indonesia, where the young man was educated in Catholic and Muslim schools in one of the most radical Islamic countries in the world. Though his father and stepfather were both Muslim, he tries to mitigate their religion by saying that by the time his mother married them, they had become atheists. After he was ten years old, he mostly was raised by his atheist grandparents.

The New York Daily News reports that he changed his life in his junior year of college at Columbia: he said he stopped doing drugs, ran three miles a day, and "He went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives..." After graduating Columbia and then Harvard, he began working in Chicago supporting social programs. He recruited a local United Church of Christ Church on a government-sponsored community outreach. Around 1988, he joined the church because, he says, "that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved."

The United Church of Christ is not to be confused with the "Church of Christ." The United Church of Christ, however, supports homosexual marriage, abortion, environmental justice, globalism, the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian movement and believes that Israel is illegally occupying the covenant land. The UCC seems to conveniently justify and legitimize his beliefs that social progressivism is equal to Christ and he writes in his memoirs that his own salvation was not an "epiphany." He reasoned after his daughter asked about life after death, "I wasn't sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang."

His name is Barak Hussein Obama. And he is running for President. He is courting evangelical Christians from the pulpit at Rick Warren's Saddleback church and by using public proclamations reported in the news media. Some Christians are saying he is a Democrat that evangelical Christians can support. Many have suggested that his Islamic and atheist upbringing combined with his social progressive membership in the United Church of Christ make him an outstanding presidential candidate. Others believe he may be a threat to the national security. Will the real Obama please stand up? Jesus said in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
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2007-03-13 05:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

I could care less but how well does he represent the will of the people?

2007-03-13 05:53:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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