Obama says some Conservatives have `hijacked' Faith - what do you think about that?

Question

I think we are the ones who truly LIVE it by following the 10 Commandments and not taking God out of our daily lives and public places as the liberals do.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PUN7AO0&show_article=1&cat=0


IS THIS THE SAME GUY WHO VOTED FOR LATE TERM ABORTIONS ?

Answer 1

Well, good for you for following the 10 Commandments but the last time I checked, it wasn't against the law to choose not to follow them. As a matter of fact, we kind of founded this nation on the very idea that we should NEVER put religious morals into Federal Law. So I'm not sure what your argument proves other than the fact that you're against the idea of freedom of religion.

Obama pretty much hit the nail on the head with this one. Look at the 2004 election. The war in Iraq was only one hot-topic button out of a dozen. The rest was all smoke-and-mirror tricks from conservatives to scare religious groups into supporting their party.

Abortion, gay marriage, stem-cell research, rights for Muslims... all of these topics and many more have been the essential nerve-center for the Republican party. What's worse, Bible-thumping hate mongers like Pat Robinson and Jerry Falwell got into the fun by spreading propogandist lies about gays and Muslims. This was all done under the name of "Christianity."

And what's really mind-boggling is the fact that you ended your post... which by the way was intended to argue Obama's point... by slamming him on his lack of religious righteousness and tossing his views on abortion into the conversation. So you just proved his point.

I think that your obedience to the 10 Commandments is nothing more than a cheap attempt for you to save face in front of fellow church-goers. I think if you really were a Christian you'd also pay attention to all those things Christ said about not being judgmental and not hating your fellow man. You're religous because it's convenient. Please don't insult real Christians by trying to convince us it has anything to do with your devotion to Christ. Judging from your words, you don't know Him any better than you know me or any of the other people you apparently hate so much.

PS. I know you've opted to have your questions marked "private" so the intelligent liberals out there can't find your idiotic musings and actually argue intelligent thoughts with you, but you're still easy to find. Just do a search on the words "liberal" or "Clinton" and there you are! Still arguing the same crap and still spouting out the same hate.

Answer 2

Obama spoke to the U.C.C. I happen to know people at that conference.
Here is the 411.
What is said at the national level will be taken to the churches for debate.
Minsters who went there opt out to listen Obama because they know and what he is.
At the local level churches who run food pantries, help the poor work with those evangelicals. So this is not going to sit well.

I know he has to go left to get the nomination but when he has to go center to win the presidency. He will find out that he burn 1 too many bridges.
This is a good thing for the GOP and bad for the DNC.

To keep on putting down people's faith or views on faith isn't going to help.

Hijack is good term maybe he should look at how the DNC has been hijack by the far left hating Christians.
That won't make headlines.
Just accurate.

Answer 3

He was speaking to a bunch of liberal Congregationalists.
What did Obama mean when he said riots are ready to break out in America. I think he was sowing division or hoping for it. The guy is an idiot. Hijacked a faith. What does Obama say about Osama and his motley crew.
His poll numbers continue to go down. Unfortunately that leaves us with Hillary.

Answer 4

Obama is 100 % correct on this one, SOME did indeed !

Who is the WE you are talking about when you say : WE are the ones who truly LIVE it by following the 10 Commandments and not taking God out of our daily lives and public places as the liberals do.
I'd suggest you better keep talking about yourself and stop judging about people you don't even know ;-)

YOU SHALL NOT KILL ! GOES FOR EVERYBODY, NOT ONLY FOR LIBERALS ;-)

Answer 5

Well, that is often the point of organized religion. Capture the gullible masses. That is probably why the founding fathers put a separation of Church and State in the Constitution. Organized religion is a threat to sound government.

I didn't say God was a threat, only man's do-it-my-way-think-what-I-think organized religion. It's sad to think of radical christians condemning radical Muslims for going on the same street toward each other at 500 mph. One is as bad as the other.

Answer 6

This probably has something to do with the fact that his partisanship preference for his political party is so strong that he may value it over his religion. If the majority of Christians (not saying that they do) disagree with Obama about the tenets of Christianity why not strike up a debate about the specifics instead of name calling because religious voters don't vote for your abortion-supporting preferences.

Answer 7

I'm not sure if it's really that some conservatives have hijacked the faith as much as people who actually hold extremist's views or those who parrot what the Moral Majority tells them to think. Just looking at the first part of the article I think that Obama is actually stating that some religious leaders are actually sowing/creating division with their views and politicized religious beliefs that others are buying wholeheartedly into and blindly accepting. In order to fix the problems that currently plague us we need to set differences aside and work together for the common good rather than nit-picking over which religious leader is pointing to what "correct" political path.

Answer 8

No it's not weird at all. I used to work for the catholic church and listened to many a sermon where the priest was berating the choir. I never did understand why they feel the necessity to berate the people that are there. Gotta go close the barn door, the horse got loose again.

Answer 9

Bush & Frankenstein Cheney truly live by
the 10 Commandments....
Thanks for the laugh so early in the morning!!!
(Unless your saying lying & stealing are now
Gods commandments, then I guess your right)


Bush laughs while eating fancy food & rides his tricycle
while Iraq & Americans cry at funerals.

Answer 10

I'll take the Beatitudes over the 10 Commandments (which are really abridged from the like 600 Mosaic Laws) any day of the week.