![]() ![]() ![]() No, I’m afraid that ‘Marxism’ is not the same as standing with people who are oppressed and marginalized. I think that the document clarifies what the Catholic Church believes about solidarity with the oppressed being strongly influenced by the Gospels of Our Lord. Are they doing it in response to Graham (and maybe Santorum) because they think it’s a great defense of his Christianity? If so – FAIL. It’s kind of curious that Sojourners is republishing the interview, which is old news. It bears little resemblance to historic orthodox Christianity. Throughout the interview, it’s clear that Obama has created a religion out of various faith traditions that he likes and that don’t conflict with his personal desires. They didn’t actually talk about his born again “experience.” Falsani seemed to throw the word into the interview to see if Obama would bite. I don’t know what the relevance is of whether it was the opening, middle, or closing question. “The answer came in the specific context of having just articulated his Christian faith,” she said.” He wasn’t talking about, ‘whatever I feel like is right in my reality,’ ” she said.įalsani said the Santorum-implied dig – that Obama has his own definition of sin outside of traditional Christianity – was wrong. values are based on his historical Christian faith. “We had talked about his born-again experience. I asked what did he believe, and he articulated his faith and prayer life,” Falsani said. Santorum is conveniently ignoring the fact that was not the opening question I asked him, nor was it the only question I asked. In a CNN blog interview, Falsani (oddly, I think) defended Obama’s faith against Santorum’s charge in his Ave Marie speech that he defined his own morality: He has given every indication over the years that he is a liberal Christian, which is to say that he denies many essential doctrines of the Christian faith and embraces other ideas that are incompatible with the Christianity of the Bible. Those who suggest otherwise are not being very serious in my view. I do not believe that President Obama is a Muslim. He confesses that he doesn’t necessarily subscribe to his own church’s “set of doctrines.”.He confesses Jesus to be a “historical figure” and “wonderful teacher” but says nothing about Jesus being a Savior, Messiah, or Son of God. When asked “Who’s Jesus to you,” what Obama didn’t say is as important as what he did say.Obama says that one need not embrace “Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and savior” to avoid judgment.Obama defines “sin” as “being out of alignment with my values.”.When asked about his belief in the afterlife, he says he doesn’t know if there is one.He believes that “there are many paths to the same place,” and he doesn’t believe that God would “consign four-fifths of the world to hell” for not believing the gospel.In short, though candidate Obama professes to be a Christian, his beliefs are that of a theological liberal. The interview focuses entirely on Obama’s faith, and I think it opens a wide window on the version of Christianity that he professes. Senate seat that he eventually won, and four months before he was introduced to the rest of the country in his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It was a couple days after Obama had clinched the Democratic nomination for the U.S. The interview took place in 2004 when Obama was still a state senator in Illinois. The information is not new, but it is relevant to recent conversations on the topic of President Obama’s Christianity. Cathleen Falsani has recently republished the full transcript of an hour long interview with candidate Barack Obama about his faith. ![]()
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